Swami Vivekananda
To Miss Isabelle McKindley
RIDGELY MANOR STONE RIDGE, N.Y. 31st August '99 MY DEAR ISABEL —
To Mr. E. T. Sturdy
PORT SAID, 14th July, 1899 . MY DEAR STURDY, I got your letter all right just now. I have one from M. Nobel of Paris too. Miss Noble has several from America. M. Nobel writes to me to defer my visit to him at Paris to some other date, from London, as he will have to be away for a long time. As yo
To Shrimati Mrinalini Bose
DEOGHAR, VAIDYANATH. 3rd January, 1899 . DEAR MOTHER, Some very important questions have been raised in your letter. It is not possible to answer them fully in a short note, still I reply to them as briefly as possible. (1) Rishi, Muni, or God — none has power to force an institution on society.
To Mr. E. T. Sturdy
KASHMIR, 3rd July, 1898. DEAR STURDY, Both the editions had my assent, as it was arranged between us that we would not object to anybody's publishing my books. Mrs. Bull knows about it all and is writing to you. I had a beautiful letter from Miss Souter the other day. She is as friendly as ever.
To Sister Christine
To Sister Christine Jodhpur, Rajputana, 4th January 1898. Love and greetings etc. to thee, dear Christina, and a happy New Year. May it find you younger in heart, stronger in body, and purer in spirit. I am still travelling in season and out of season. Lecturing some, working a good deal. Ha
To Sharat Chandra Chakravarti
Constant salutation be to Shri Ramakrishna, the Free, the Ishvara, the Shiva-form, by whose power we and the whole world are blessed. Mayest thou live long, O Sharat Chandra! (Sharat Chandra Chakravarti, a disciple of Swamiji.) Those writers of Shâstra who do not tend towards work say that all-po
To the Madras Committee
[After Swami Vivekananda Colombo on Friday, January 15, 1897, the Madras Committee, which was planning a reception for the Swami, sent the following message: "Motherland rejoices to welcome you back". In reply, Swami Vivekananda sent a wire.]
To Alberta Sturges
Hotel Minerva, Florence, 20th Dec., 1896. Dear Alberta, Tomorrow we reach Rome. I will most possibly come to see you day after tomorrow as it will be late in the night when we reach Rome. We stop at the Hotel Continental.
To Miss. Harriet Hale
AIRLIE LODGE, RIDGEWAY GARDENS, WIMBLEDON, ENGLAND, 17th Sept., 1896 . DEAR SISTER, Your very welcome news reached me just now, on my return here from Switzerland. I am very, very happy to learn that at last you have thought it better to change your mind about the felicity of "Old Maids Home".
To Mrs. Ole Bull
Saas-Grund, Switzerland, 25th July, 1896. Dear Mrs. Bull, I want to forget the world entirely at least for the next two months and practise hard. That is my rest. . . . The mountains and snow have a beautifully quieting influence on me, and I am getting better sleep here than for a long time.
To Sister Christine
HIGH VIEW, READING, 20th April, 1896 . DEAR SISTERS, Greetings to you from the other shore. The voyage has been pleasant and no sickness this time. I gave myself treatment to avoid it. I made quite a little run through Ireland and some of the Old English towns and now am once more in Reading amid
To Mrs. Ole Bull
124 E. 44th Street, New York 14th April, 1896 Dear Mrs. Bull, . . . Here is a curious person who comes to me with a letter from Bombay. He is a practical mechanic and his one idea is to see cutlery and other iron manufactories in this country. . . . I do not know anything about him, but even