From ‘Epistles – Fourth Series’-chapter -V of Volume 8 of The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. (Translated from the original in French)

6 PLACE DES ETATS UNIS, PARIS,

October, 1900.

MY DEAR MADEMOISELLE,

I have been very happy and content here. I am having the best of times after many years. I find life here with Mr. Bois very satisfactory — the books, the calm, and the absence of everything that usually troubles me.

But I don’t know what kind of destiny is waiting for me now.

My letter is funny, isn’t it? But it is my first attempt.

Yours faithfully,
VIVEKANANDA.