Dear Mr Jinnah,
The Working Committee have considered your letter of October 10, 1938 and regret the decisions contained therein. Since the Committee do not find it possible to agree with the Council of the Muslim League as to the basis of the negotiation and since the Council insist that an agreement as to the basis is a sine qua non on any negotiations between the Congress and the League, the Working Committee regret that they are not in a position to do anything further in the direction of starting negotiations with League with a view to arriving at a settlement of Hindu-Muslim question.
I am sorry for the delay in replying to your letter, but I did not want to say anything till the Working Committee met and considered the matter.
Since the previous correspondence has been published already, I am taking the liberty of issuing this to the press.
Yours sincerely,
Subhas C Bose