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must see now the capital and the other cities. I am in His Hands. If Miss Mary be in Boston, sometime I may hope to see her.

I am glad that Narasimha was never fast__hope he will never be.

From India they always write me to come, come, come. They do not know the secret. I am acting more from here than I will ever do from there.

Kindly send my letters to this address and they will reach me safe wherever I be. This will be one of my homes when I am in Boston.

Lord bless you all, dear Mother.

          Yours ever affectionately,

          Vivekananda

XL

To Mrs. Ole Bull

          1123 Saint Paul Street, Baltimore,

          17 October 1894.

Dear Mrs. Bull,

I could not find time earlier to write you__I was so incessantly knocking about. We had a nice meeting last Sunday at Baltimore and [are] going to have one more next Sunday. Of course, they do not financially help me a bit; but as I promised to help them and like the idea, I speak for them.1

In the letters you sent over from India was an address sent over to me from Calcutta by my fellow citizens for my work here and a number of newspaper cuttings. I will send them on to you later.

Yesterday I went to see Washington and met Mrs. Colville and Miss Young, who were very kind to me.



Foot Note:

1     During his first visit to America, Swami Vivekananda occasionally spoke for other organizations, both American and Indian. This time he had come to Baltimore at the invitation of the Vrooman brothers, who had a project to establish an International University of Religions, which the Swami endorsed by speaking on the brothers' behalf. Readers should, however, note that the International University project of the Vrooman brothers of Baltimore and Swami Vivekananda's "Temple Universal" proposed in New York were two entirely different projects.