11. I have got the $200 for the engagements

DETROIT,

February 22, 1894.

DEAR MOTHER,

I have got the $200 for the engagements, $175 and $117 by private lectures [1] and $100 as a present from a lady.

ⓘ[1] When Swami Vivekananda realised that the Slayton Lyceum Lecture Bureau was cheating him, he began to arrange lectures privately, not knowing that Mr. T. W. Palmer, who had gone to Chicago on his behalf, had broken the contract on the day this letter was written.

This sum will be sent to you tomorrow in cheques by Mrs. Bagley. Today, the banks being closed, we could not do it.

I am going tomorrow to lecture at Ada, Ohio. I do not know whether I will go to Chicago from Ada or not. However, kindly let not Slayton know anything about the rest of the money, as I am going to separate myself from him.

Yours obediently,
VIVEKANANDA.