"I am arrive by passenger train Ahmedpur station and my
belly is too much swelling with jackfruit. I am therefore went to
privy. Just I doing the nuisance that guard making whistle blow for
train to go off and I am running with lotah in one hand and dhoti in
the next when I am fall over on plateform. I am got leaved at Ahmedpur
station. This too much bad, if passenger go to make dung that dam
guard not wait train five minutes for him. I am therefore pray your
honour to make big fine on that guard for public sake. Otherwise I
am making big report to papers."


Okhil Chandra Sen wrote this letter to the Sahibganj
divisional railway office in 1909. It is on display at the Railway
Museum in New Delhi. It was also reproduced under the caption
"Travelers' Tales" in the Far Eastern Economic Review.



Any guesses why this letter was of historic value?



It apparently led to introduction of TOILETS in trains!!!!!!!!!