160. You have done for me more than I ever deserve.

1502 JONES STREET,

SAN FRANCISCO,
7th March, 1900.

DEAR JOE ,

I learn from Mrs. Bull’s letter that you are in Cambridge.

I also learn from Miss Helen that you did not get the stories sent on to you. I am sorry. Margot has copies she may give you. I am so so in health. No money. Hard work. No result. Worse than Los Angeles.

They come in crowds when the lecture is free—when there is payment, they don’t. That’s all. I have a relapse—for some days—and am feeling very bad. I think lecturing every night is the cause. I hope to do something in Oakland at least to work out my passage to New York, where I mean to work for my passage to India. I may go to London if I make money here to pay a few months’ lodging there.

Will you send me our General’s address? Even the name slips from memory now!

Good-bye. May see you in Paris, may not. Lord bless you, you have done for me more than I ever deserve.

With infinite love and gratitude,

Yours,
VIVEKANANDA.