Svarūpa Dāmodara: We saw the first Back to Godhead magazine yesterday, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: Huh?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: The first Back to Godhead copy of the magazine that you published from Calcutta in 1944. We found in the library.
Prabhupāda: Oh, '44 edition is here?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes, Library of Congress.
Prabhupāda: How they collected?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Oh, it has kept very nicely. Paper was... Quality was very good, printing and everything, from India, thinking... (laughs)
Prabhupāda: There are some mistakes also.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes, printing mistakes.
Prabhupāda: That is India's special...
Svarūpa Dāmodara: (laughs) Quality.
Prabhupāda: ...qualification. It was printed in the best place of Calcutta; still, they committed mistake. Sarasvati Press. That is the best publisher in Bengal.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: This is called Tapke?
Prabhupāda: Tata Spingh(?) was the agent for selling.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes, the paper quality was good.
Prabhupāda: So it was first published in 1944.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes, the first appearance in the vyāsa-pūjā day, 1944.
Prabhupāda: It was published in the first-class place, and the first-class bookseller who was selling this, Tata Spingh(?), that was the most important bookseller in Calcutta.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Did you send copies to all the libraries?
Prabhupāda: No, they were doing everything. They might have sent to America like that.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: We saw lots of Śrīla Prabhupāda's books, recent books, in that library. Library of Congress has those books.
Prabhupāda: Inside, inside the... Have you got the photograph of inside?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes, it's photograph of Bhaktisiddhānta Prabhupāda...
Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: And... This is not the copy that I wanted. Then Bhaktivinoda. (aside:) That is wrong, I think.
Prabhupāda: So 1944, and it is '76. Thirty-two years?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes.
Prabhupāda: How did you get the information?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: In the card catalogue. I think Pradyumna found it. Pradyumna, three, four, five of us went there to see the library. Actually we went to discuss that Sūrya-siddhānta and some of the astronomical calculations. We wanted to check in the library, but they didn't have anything. We found some.
Prabhupāda: Found?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: I found one Bhāgavata-purāṇa, it was printed in sometime 1901. Their summary of Bhāgavatam, they also described the planetary system, earth first, then... No. Yes, earth, then sun, then moon, like that, in circles.