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*To Mr. E. T. Sturdy*▶

RIDGELY MANOR, *29th December, 1895*.▶

DEAR FRIEND,▶

By this time the copies of the lectures must have reached you. Hope they may be of some use.▶

I think, in the first place, there are so many difficulties to overcome; in the second place, they think that they are fit for nothing — that is the national disease; thirdly, they are afraid to face the winter at once; the Tibet man they don't think is a very strong man to work in England. Some one will come sooner or later.▶

Yours in the *Sat*,▶

VIVEKANANDA.▶

PS. My Christmas greetings to all our friends — to Mrs. and Mr. Johnson, to Lady Margesson, Mrs. Clark, Miss Hawes, Miss Müller, Miss Steel, and all the rest. — V.▶

Kiss baby for me and bless him. My greetings to Mrs. Sturdy. We will *work*. "Wah guru ki fateh." — V.▶