The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 7/Epistles - Third Series/XVIII Sister
XVIII
NEW YORK,
2nd [actually 1st] May, 1894.
DEAR SISTER (Miss Isabelle McKindley.),
I am afraid I cannot send you the pamphlet just now. But I got a little bit of a newspaper cutting from India yesterday which I send you up. After you have read it kindly send it over to Mrs. Bagley. The editor of this paper is a relative of Mr. Mazoomdar. I am now sorry for poor Mazoomdar!! (The last two sentences were written crosswise on the left margin.)
I could not find the exact orange colour of my coat here, so I have been
obliged to satisfy myself with the next best — a cardinal red with more of
yellow.
The coat will be ready in a few days.
Got about $70 the other day by lecturing at Waldorf. And hope to get some
more by tomorrow's lecture.
From 7th to 19th there are engagements in Boston, but they pay very little.
Yesterday I bought a pipe for $13 — meerschaum do not tell it to father
Pope. The coat will cost $30. I am all right getting food . . . and money
enough. Hope very soon to put something in the bank after the coming
lecture.
. . . in the evening I am going to speak in a vegetarian dinner! Well, I am
a vegetarian . . ., because I prefer it when I can get it. I have another
invitation to lunch with Lyman Abbott day after tomorrow. After all, I am
having very nice time and hope to have very nice time in Boston — only that
nasty nasty lecturing — disgusting. However as soon as 19th is over — one
leap from Boston . . . to Chicago . . . and then I will have a long long
breath and rest, rest for two three weeks. I will simply sit down and talk
— talk and smoke.
By the by, your New York people are very good — only more money than brains.
I am going to speak to the students of the Harvard University. Three
lectures at Boston, three at Harvard — all arranged by Mrs. Breed. They are
arranging something here too, so that I will, on my way to Chicago, come to
New York once more — give them a few hard raps and pocket the boodle and fly
to Chicago.
If you want anything from New York or Boston which cannot be had at Chicago
— write sharp. I have plenty of dollars now. I will send you over anything
you want in a minute. Don't think it would be indelicate anyway — no humbug
about me. If I am a brother so I am. I hate only one thing in the world —
hypocrisy.
Your affectionate brother,
VIVEKANANDA.