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With my best love, gratitude to you and all your brothers,

                                                                               I remain, yours faithfully,

          Vivekananda

XXX

                                                                                      Chicago(?)

                                                                                      September, 1894(3?)1

Dear Diwanji Saheb {Shri Haridas Viharidas Desai},

Very kind of you to send up a man inquiring about my health and comfort. But that's quite of a piece with your fatherly character. I am all right here. Your kindness has left nothing more to be desired here. I hope soon to see you in a few days. I don't require any conveyance while going down. Descent is very bad, and the ascent is the worst part of the job, that's the same in everything in the world. My heartful gratitude to you.

                                                                                      Yours faithfully,

          Vivekananda

XXXI

                                                                                      1125 St. Paul St.

          Baltimore

          October, 1894

Dear Mother {Mrs. Hale},

You see where I am now. Did you see a telegram from India in the Chicago Tribune ? Did they print the address from Calcutta? From here I go to Washington, thence to Philadelphia and then to New York; send me the address of Miss Mary in Philadelphia so that I



Foot Note:

1     Diwanji never visited U.S.A. The time and place given by his relatives are wrong obviously.