The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 8/Epistles - Fourth Series/XLIV Joe
XLIV
To Miss Josephine MacLeod
21 W. 34TH ST.,
NEW YORK,
June, 1895.
DEAR JOE,
Experiences are gathering a bit thick round you. I am sure they will lift
many a veil more.
Mr. Leggett told me of your phonograph. I told him to get a few cylinders — I talk in them through somebody's phonograph and send them to Joe — to which he replied that he could buy one, because "I always do what Joe asks me to do." I am glad there is so much of hidden poetry in his nature.
I am going today to live with the Guernseys as the doctor wants to watch me
and cure me. . . . Doctor Guernsey, after examining other things, was
feeling my pulse, when suddenly Landsberg (whom they had forbidden the
house) got in and retreated immediately after seeing me. Dr. Guernsey burst
out laughing and declared he would have paid that man for coming just then,
for he was then sure of his diagnosis of my case. The pulse before was so
regular, but just at the sight of Landsberg it almost stopped from emotion.
It is sure only a case of nervousness. He also advises me strongly to go on
with Doctor Helmer's treatment. He thinks Helmer will do me a world of good,
and that is what I need now. Is not he broad?
I expect to see "the sacred cow" today in town. I will be in New York a few
days more. Helmer wants me to take three treatments a week for four weeks,
then two a week for four more, and I will be all right. In case I go to
Boston, he recommends me to a very good ostad (expert) there whom he would
advise on the matter.
I said a few kind words to Landsberg and went upstairs to Mother Guernsey to
save poor Landsberg from embarrassment.
Ever yours in the Lord,
VIVEKANANDA.