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LXXXII

To Mrs. Charles (Mary) Funke

          228 W. 39

          New York,

          the 6th Jan. 1896.

Dear Mrs. Funkey [Funke]__

Many, many thanks for the sweet flowers. It recalls to me the beautiful times we had at the Thousand Islands and presages many such summer gatherings.

The work here had begun in right earnest, and we will advance it farther this year than in the last.

I am therefore uncertain as to the exact date of my coming to Detroit. I will come, however, very soon.

          Yours ever in the Lord,

          Vivekananda

LXXXIII

To Mrs. Ole Bull

          228 W. 39th Street

          New York

          10 January 1896

Dear Mrs. Bull,

I have received your letter and also another from the Secre‑tary of the Harvard Metaphysical Club.1

I will be only too glad to come to Boston for the Harvard lecture especially__but these are the difficulties in the way: First, the work here will fall to pieces; secondly, I have begun to write in right earnest. I want to finish some text books to be the basis of work when I am gone. I want to hurry through four little text books before I go.



Foot Note:

1         Most probably the graduate Philosophical Club of Harvard, before which Swami Vivekananda spoke in March 1896.