This manuscript letter is from Nepalese writer, journalist, and politician Gopal Gorung to English PEN, expressing his thanks for a book sent to him in prison and relating the reasons for his incarceration. Gorung cites a work he had published several years earlier, Hidden Facts in Nepalese Politics (1985), criticizing the unequal distribution of government authority in favor of high-caste Hindu settlers, who had set up a one-party system to consolidate their power over the majority indigenous Mongol population of Nepal. For his agitations against the one-party Panchayat government, Gorung was arrested upon the second printing of his book in 1988, and sentenced to three years in Bhadragol prison. He was kept on a subsistence diet and housed with the general prison population. The letter was sent just a few weeks before Gorung would be released, after the Panchayat government was dissolved in favor of a multi-party system. This correspondence demonstrates how the work of the PEN Books for Prisoners committee served as an outreach tool for PEN to discover and advocate for writers across the globe.