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{{short description|Collection of letters written by Jawaharlal Nehru}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=November 2018}}
{{Infobox book
| name = Letters from a Father to His Daughter
| title_orig =
| translator = To Hindi by [[Munshi Premchand]]
| image = Letters from a Father to His Daughter.jpg
| caption = Book cover from the 2004 Puffin Book edition
| author = [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]
| illustrator = Puffin Books
| cover_artist =
| country = India
| language = English (original), Hindi, Spanish
| series =
| subject =
| genre =
| publisher = Allahabad Law Journal Press
| pub_date = 1929
| media_type =
| pages =
| isbn =
| oclc = 47215515
| preceded_by =
| followed_by =*''Pitā ke patra putrī ke nāma'' Hindi translation (1931)
*''Freedom's daughter : letters between Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, 1922-39'' (1989)
*''Letters from a Father to His Daughter'' (2004)
*''Two Alone, Two Together: Letters Between Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru 1922-1964'' (2005)
}}
'''''Letters from a Father to His Daughter''''' is a collection of letters written by [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] to his daughter [[Indira Gandhi|Indira Nehru]], originally published in 1929 by Allahabad Law Journal Press at Nehru's request and consisting of only the 30 letters sent in the summer of 1928 when Indira was 10 years old. He arranged a second edition in 1931 and subsequently, further reprints and editions have been published.<ref name="NehruVadra2004">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/lettersfromfathe00jawa|url-access=registration|quote=letters from a father to his daughter 2004 forward.|title=Letters from a Father to His Daughter|last=Nehru|first=Jawaharlal|date=2004|publisher=Puffin Books|isbn=978-0143441861|edition=4th|location=Haryana|language=en}} Foreword by Priyanka Gandhi Vadra</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cwB7ebB8TK8C&q=letter+to+daughter+nehru|title=Two Alone, Two Together: Letters Between Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru 1922-1964|last=Gandhi|first=Sonia|date=2005|publisher=Penguin Books India|isbn=9780143032458|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2016/04/freedoms-daughter|title=BBC - Freedom's Daughter - Media Centre|date=25 January 2001|website=www.bbc.co.uk|access-date=2019-08-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Freedom's daughter : letters between Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, 1922-39|last=Gandhi, Indira, 1917-1984.|date=1989|publisher=Hodder and Stoughton|others=Gandhi, Sonia, 1946-, Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964.|isbn=0340430427|location=London|oclc=18071021}}</ref><ref name=IndiaToday>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-the-arts/books/story/19890930-book-review-of-freedoms-daughter-letters-between-indira-gandhi-and-jawaharlal-nehru-1922-39-816571-1989-09-30|title=Book review of 'Freedom's Daughter: Letters Between Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru 1922-39'|last=Jain|first=Madhu|date=30 September 1989|website=[[India Today]]|language=en|access-date=12 August 2019}}</ref>

The letters were education pieces on the subjects of natural and human history. At the time of the letter's writing, Nehru was in [[Allahabad]], while Indira was in [[Mussoorie]]. While original letters written by Nehru were in English, they were translated into Hindi by the Hindi novelist [[Munshi Premchand]] under the name ''Pita Ke Patra Putri Ke Naam.
In 2014 was edited a Cuban translation to Spanish of this book, using the tile "Cartas a mi hija Indira" (Letters to my daughter Indira), performed by Rodolfo Zamora. In that edition, other 5 letters were published. An amplified new edition was released in 2018, also in Cuba, honoring the 100th anniversary of the correspondence between Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi.
<ref name=YoungWorld2008>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/yw/2006/08/04/stories/2006080402320600.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091112142131/http://www.hindu.com/yw/2006/08/04/stories/2006080402320600.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-11-12|title=Young World : From dad with love|last=Balakrishnan|first=Anima|access-date=2008-10-31|location=Chennai, India|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=2006-08-04}}</ref><ref name=IndiaToday2017>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/lifestyle/culture/story/pandit-jawaharlal-nehru-birth-anniversary-childrens-day-letters-father-daughter-excerpts-lifest-1085884-2017-11-14|title=Pandit Nehru's advice to his daughter is something all of us need today|website=India Today|language=en|date=14 November 2017|access-date=31 July 2019}}</ref><ref name="Zama2004">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=piKyX8kqIT0C&dq=letter+to+daughter+nehru&pg=PA39|title=Prose for Our Times|last=Zama|first=M.|date=2004|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=8125026819|pages=39–45|language=en}}</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=cwB7ebB8TK8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=letter+to+daughter+nehru&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwio75L53N_jAhXSolwKHUHZAtoQ6AEINzAD#v=onepage&q=letter%20to%20daughter%20nehru&f=false ''Two Alone, Two Together: Letters Between Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru'']. [[Sonia Gandhi]], Penguin Books (2005).

==External links==
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.220076/page/n3 ''Letters From A Father To His Daughter'']. Allahabad Law Journal Press (1929)
*[https://openlibrary.org/books/OL951852M/Pitā_ke_patra_putrī_ke_nāma ''Pitā ke patra putrī ke nāma'']. Hindi translation (1931)

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