#160, YOU MUST PERSUADE HARRIET TO GIVE ME A FEW DOLLARS EVERY MONTH
Swami Vivekananda wrote to Ms. Mary Hale, from Los Angeles, on June 17, 1900. "...Well, now about me. You must persuade Harriet to give me a few dollars every month, and I will have some other friends do the same. If I succeed, I fly off to India. I am dead tired of the platform work for a living. It does not please me any more. ..." BLOGGER'S VIEWs In one letter his demand for money appears jocular, but it is real. His earlier letter to Ms. Mary Hale Sept. 1899 from Ridgely Manor has one such appeal: "... Harriet Woolley has been uniformly silent. Never mind, I will bide my time, and as soon as Mr. Woolley becomes a millionaire, demand my money ..." Here Harriet is Harriet Hale. She married Mr. Woolley. It appears that Vivekananda facilitated the marriage of Harriet to Mr. Woolley. One gets an impression that he wants a donation, as a token of happiness. This can be seen from his letter dated 16th March 1899 from Belur Math to Ms. Mary Hale. But "Wi...