The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 5/Epistles - First Series/XLVI Friend
XLVI
C/O Miss Dutcher,
Thousand Island Park, N. Y.
7th July, 1895.
Dear Friend,[1]
I see you are enjoying New York very much, so excuse my breaking into your
reverie with a letter.
I had two beautiful letters from Miss MacLeod and Mrs. Sturges. Also they
sent over two pretty birch bark books. I have filled them with Sanskrit
texts and translations, and they go by today's post.
Mrs. Dora[2] is giving, I hear, some startling performances in the Mahatma
line.
Since leaving Percy[3] I have invitations to come over to London from
unexpected quarters, and that I look forward to with great expectations.
I do not want to lose this opportunity of working in London. And so your
invitation, coupled with the London one, is, I know, a divine call for
further work.
I shall be here all this month and only have to go to Chicago for a few days
sometime in August.
Don't fret, Father Leggett, this is the best time for expectation — when
sure in love.
Lord bless you ever and ever, and may all happiness be yours for ever, as
you richly deserve it.
Ever yours in love and affection,
Vivekananda.
- Notes
- ↑ Mr. F. Leggett.
- ↑ Mrs. Dora Rosthlesberger, an occultist who had introduced Miss MacLeod and Mrs. Sturges to Swami Vivekananda.
- ↑ Mr. Leggett's camp in New Hampshire. From here Swami Vivekananda went to Thousand Island Park.