E-Library of Vivek Sanjivani

CLXXIII

To Sister Christine

          Vedanta Society,

          102 East 58th Street,

          New York,

          15 June 1900.

My dear Christina,

I am getting better every day, only this New York is a bad place for sleep. Again, I am working some, though not hard, to get the old friends together and put the thing in shape.

Now, you know, I will in a week or so finish this work and then be ready for a real quiet of a week or two or more.

Detroit, alas! will be no better than New York. With so many old friends! How can you avoid friends whom you really love?

I will have perfect freedom at yours__sure__but how can I avoid seeing friends and the eternal visiting and paying visits and much talkee‑talkee? Do you know any other place within eight or ten hours (I want to avoid night rides) of riding from New York where I can be quiet and free from the people? (Lord bless them.) I am dead tired seeing people just now. Just think of that and everything else; if, after all, you think Detroit is the best place for me, I am ready to come.

          Yours truly,

          Vivekananda.

PS__I am also thinking of a quiet place.

          V.

CLXXIV

To Sister Christine

          Vedanta Society,

          102 East 58th Street,

          New York,

          27th June 1900.

Dear Christina,

This is my plan just now. I will have to remain in New York a few days yet to see my books through. I am going to