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# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Walker, Richard Cornelius Critchett

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​Walker, Richard Cornelius Critchett, C.M.G., J.P., Principal Under-Secretary, New South Wales, son of the late Rev. James Walker, M.A., of New College, Oxford, and formerly Head Master of the King's School, Parramatta, New South Wales, was born on board the Arabian off the Cape of Good Hope on June 28th, 1841, educated at St. James' Grammar School, Sydney; was appointed sessional clerk in the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Oct. 1856; clerk in the Executive Council Office in July 1857; private secretary to the Premier in Nov. 1858; Clerk of Records in Dec. 1866; First Clerk in 1878; Principal Under-Secretary in 1879; member of the Civil Service Board in 1887. On New Year's Day 1891, Mr. Walker's long and meritorious services were recognised by his appointment to the Companionship of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. His brother, Mr. P. B. Walker, is Assistant Superintendent of the Electric Telegraph Department of New South Wales, and Brevet-Major of the Torpedo and Signalling Corps. Another brother, Mr. Robert Cooper Walker, is Principal Librarian of the Free Public Library in Sydney.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Wallace, William Vincent

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​Wallace, William Vincent, the eminent musical composer, was the son of Samuel Wallace, bandmaster of the 17th Regiment, with which he was for some time stationed in Sydney, N.S.W. The future musician was born at Waterford, Ireland, on March 11th, 1815. He was placed in the orchestra of the Hawkins Street Theatre, Dublin, when he was fourteen, and took the direction when he was sixteen. In 1835, being in delicate health, he went to Australia, with the intention of abandoning music, and turning his hand to the hard work of colonial pioneering. He spent some time in the New South Wales "bush," to the west of Sydney, but ultimately decided to give a concert in the metropolis, for which he secured the patronage of the then governor, Sir Richard Bourke. It was given in aid of the building fund of the Roman Catholic Cathedral, and its success may be judged from the fact that £1000 was realised for the object desired. Mr. Wallace now applied himself vigorously to composition in private, and violin playing in public. He also gave lessons on the latter instrument. He travelled professionally through the Australasian colonies, and, as narrated by Mr. Hogan, was made prisoner in New Zealand by a band of Maoris, who would have promptly murdered him but for the interposition of the chiefs daughter. He also went on a whaling voyage with a native crew who mutinied, when he had another very narrow escape of losing his life. Subsequently, his health having in the meantime improved, he proceeded to India, South America, Mexico and the United States, returning in 1845 to London, where he completed his opera Maritana, a great part of which had been scored in Sydney. This opera was produced with great success at Drury Lane Theatre, and his fame as a composer was established. He afterwards wrote Matilda of Hungary, Amber Witch, Lurline, Love's Triumph, and The Desert Flower. In 1864 he went to Paris, and died on Oct. 12th, 1865.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Walsh, Hon. Robert

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​Walsh, Hon. Robert, son of Michael Walsh, a Dublin merchant, was born at Rathfarnham, near that city, and was educated at Chaill's Blackrock School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he took his degree in 1846, with a moderatorship in logic and ethics. In Nov. 1847 he was called to the Irish Bar, and in 1853 emigrated to Victoria, where he practised his profession at Ballarat for some years from 1855. In 1871 he entered the Legislative Assembly for Ballarat East, and was Attorney-General in the Duffy Ministry from July of that year till June 1872. At the following General Election he did not stand for Parliament, and has since devoted himself to the practice of his profession in Melbourne. In Dec. 1886 he was appointed Crown Prosecutor for the metropolitan district, and in 1892 conducted the case for the prosecution against the murderer Deeming.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Want, John Henry

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​Want, John Henry, M.L.A., was admitted to practise as a barrister in New South Wales in Nov. 1869, and represents Paddington in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. He was Attorney-General in the first Dibbs Ministry from Oct. to Dec. 1885, and in the Jennings Government from Feb. 1886 to Jan. 1887.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Wallen, Robert Elias

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​Wallen, Robert Elias, J.P., son of Francis Robertson Wallen and Catherine (Hobson) his wife, was born on June 5th, 1831, in Trinidad, and educated in Philadelphia, and at Foyle College, Londonderry, Ireland, from 1835 to 1848, when he entered a merchant's office in Liverpool. In 1852 he emigrated to Victoria, and engaged in mercantile pursuits, which he varied by literary work. Mr. Wallen is known throughout Australia under the pseudonym of "Ægles" the signature under which he for twenty years contributed to the Leader and Australasian. He was the founder of the Australasian Insurance and Banking Record, which he edited for nine years. In this connection he was elected Fellow of the Institute of Bankers, London (being the second of only two lay Fellows in the Institute), and was also accorded the Fellowship of the Royal Statistical Society of London. Mr. Wallen was twice mayor of Hawthorn, and is a justice of the peace for the central bailiwick. He was one of the earliest volunteers in the Victoria Yeomanry Cavalry, was for many years president of the Art Union of Victoria, and was the first chairman of the Melbourne Stock Exchange—a post to which he was twice afterwards re-elected. He married in Melbourne on May 21st, 1863, Miss Marian May Pitman, and is a partner in the firm of Clarke & Co., stockbrokers, Melbourne.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Warburton, Major Peter Egerton

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​Warburton, Major Peter Egerton, H.E.I.C.S., C.M.G., fourth son of the Rev. Rowland Egerton Warburton, of Arley Hall, Cheshire, by his marriage with Emma, daughter of James Croxton, was born on August 15th, 1813, at Arley Hall, and was primarily educated in France. In 1826 he entered the royal navy, and in 1829 proceeded to Addiscombe College, preparatory to entering the East India Company's service, in which he remained from 1831 until 1853, when he retired with the rank of major. He emigrated to Western Australia, arriving at Albany in July 1853; but went to Adelaide in September, and at the end of the year was appointed Commissioner of Police. This position he held till 1867, and in 1869 he became Colonel Commandant of the South Australian Volunteer Force, a position from which he retired in 1877. He was subsequently placed in charge of the Imperial Pension Department. Between 1856 and 1874 Major Warburton conducted several exploring expeditions. In April 1873 he started from Adelaide on an expedition across the continent with seventeen camels, three Europeans and two Afghans. His route lay across the sandhills that baffled the brothers Gregory; but with the aid of the camels, and by his own indomitable energy, he succeeded in reaching an out-station in Western Australia. Nine months and a half had been occupied in making the terrible journey of nine hundred miles. During the latter part of their wanderings the party subsisted on the flesh of the worn-out camels, and on rare occasions on a few wallabies which they got from the natives. For his services as an explorer Warburton obtained the Royal Geographical Society's medal, with a vote from the South Australian Parliament of £1000 for himself and £500 for his party. Sir Thomas Elder sent him to England, and published the narrative of his explorations, and he was created a C.M.G. in 1875. Major Warburton married, in Oct. 1838, Alicia, daughter of H. Mant, of Bath. He died on Dec. 16th, 1889.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Ward, Crosbie

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​Ward, Crosbie, a well-known New Zealand politician, was the third son of the late Hon. and Rev. Henry Ward, rector of Kilhirchy, county Down, Ireland, by his marriage with Anne, daughter of Rev. Henry Mahon, and grandson of Hon. Edward Ward and Lady Arabella (Crosbie) his wife, daughter of the first Earl of Glandore. His father's eldest brother became the third Viscount Bangor, and Mr. Crosbie Ward was first cousin to the late Sir E. W. Ward, K.C.M.G. (q.v.). He was born in 1833, and was educated ​at the College School, Castletown, Isle of Man, and at Trinity College, Dublin. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1852, being one of the pioneers of the Canterbury Church of England settlement in that colony. In March 1855 he was elected to the Provincial Council of Canterbury for Akaroa, and in the following Dec. he stood for the New Zealand House of Representatives for Christchurch country district, but was defeated. He again contested the constituency in Oct. 1856, but was again unsuccessful. In May 1858, however, he was elected to the House for Lyttelton, for which he was also returned to the Provincial Council later in the same year. In August 1861 he accepted office in the Fox Ministry as Postmaster-General and Secretary for Crown Lands. Resigning with his chief in August of the next year, he was a few days later reappointed Postmaster-General under Mr. Domett, retiring with his colleagues in Oct. 1863. Early in that year he had been sent to England to negotiate for the establishment of a mail service via Panama, and this he successfully achieved, and on his return in March 1864 was offered his old portfolio of Postmaster-General by the then Premier, Sir Frederick Weld. He, however, declined to re-enter office, and engaged in an agitation for the separation of the North and South islands of New Zealand. Whilst in England as the representative of the Domett Government, he discussed the question of the war expenditure with the Imperial Government, and published a defence of the colony in a letter addressed to Lord Lyttelton, one of the founders of the Canterbury settlement. Mr. Ward became connected with the Lyttelton Times as a part proprietor in July 1856, and was a voluminous and very able contributor to its columns. Shortly after his refusal to join the Weld Government, Mr. Ward was appointed agent in England for the province of Canterbury, and died in London whilst acting in that capacity in 1867. Mr. Ward married on Jan. 13th, 1857, Margaret, seventh daughter of James Townsend, of Christchurch, N.Z.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Walsh, Hon. William Henry

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​Walsh, Hon. William Henry, M.L.C., was born in Oxfordshire in Dec. 1825. He arrived in New South Wales in 1844, and was returned to the Legislative Assembly of that colony for one of the northern constituencies in 1859. He was engaged in squatting pursuits in what ultimately became the colony of Queensland, and after separation took place he was returned to the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1865. He was Minister of Works in the Palmer Ministry from May 1870 to July 1873, and in the next year was returned for the Warrego, and acted as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly from Jan. 1874 to July 1876, when he resigned. He was appointed a member of the Legislative Council in Feb. 1879. He died on April 5th, 1888.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Walstab, George Arthur

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​Walstab, George Arthur, is the son of A. J. G. Walstab, formerly a planter in Demerara, West Indies, and was born in 1834. He went to the colony of Victoria with his father in 1852, and served in the Mounted Police as a cadet for ten years. He paid a visit to India in 1857, and served in Richardson's Horse during the latter portion of the Mutiny. Mr. Walstab joined the Calcutta Englishman newspaper in 1860, and was sub-editor and editor until 1865, when he returned to Australia and joined the Melbourne press. In 1874 he was appointed secretary to the Minister of Lands, and held that appointment until the reductions in the Civil Service in 1880. Mr. Walstab has written several novels, amongst them "Confessed at Last," "Pierce Charlton's Wives," "Looking Back," and "Standing at Bay." He was for a time editor of the Castlemaine Representative, and afterwards of the Melbourne Herald, to which he still contributes.
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/VI Sir

VI[6]*
(Translated from Bengali)
Shri Durgâ be my Refuge!
BARANAGORE,
26th June, 1889.
DEAR SIR,
For sundry reasons I have been unable to write to you for long, for which please excuse me. I have now obtained news of Gangadhar. He met one of my brother disciples, and both are now staying in the Uttarakhanda (the sacred Himalayas). Four of us from here are in the Himalayas now, and with Gangadhar they are five. One brother-disciple named Shivananda came across Gangadhar at Srinagara on the way to holy Kedarnath, and Gangadhar has sent two letters here. During his first year in the Himalayas, he could not secure permission to enter Tibet, but he got it the next year. The Lamas love him much, and he had picked up the Tibetan language. He says the Lamas form ninety per cent of the population, but they mostly practice Tântrika forms of worship. The country is intensely cold — eatables there are scarcely any — only dried meat; and Gangadhar had to travel and live on that food. My health is passable, but the state of mind is terrible!
Yours etc.,
VIVEKANANDA.
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/XCIII Mrs. Bull

XCIII
NEW YORK,
25th Jan., 1896.
DEAR MRS. BULL,
Your letter to Sturdy has been sent over to me. It was very kind of you to write that note. This year, I am afraid, I am getting overworked, as I feel the strain. I want a rest badly. So it is very good, as you say, that the Boston work be taken up in the end of March. By the end of April I will start for England.
Land can be had in large plots in the Catskills for very little money. There is a plot of 101 acres for $200. The money I have ready, only I cannot buy the land in my name. You are the only friend in this country in whom I have perfect trust. If you consent, I will buy the land in your name. The students will go there in summer and build cottages or camps as they like and practice meditation. Later on, if they can collect funds, they may build something up. I am sorry, you cannot come just now. Tomorrow will be the last Sunday lecture of this month. The first Sunday of next month there will be a lecture in Brooklyn; the rest, three in New York, with which I will close this year's New York lectures.
I have worked my best. If there is any seed of truth in it, it will come to life. So I have no anxiety about anything. I am also getting tired of lecturing and having classes. After a few months' work in England I will go to India and hide myself absolutely for some years or for ever. I am satisfied in my conscience that I did not remain an idle Swami. I have a note-book which has travelled with me all over the world. I find these words written seven years ago — "Now to seek a corner and lay myself there to die!" Yet all this Karma remained. I hope I have worked it out. I hope the Lord will give me freedom from this preaching and adding good bondages.
"If you have known the Âtman as the one existence and that nothing else exists, for whom, for what desire, do you trouble yourself?" Through Maya all this doing good etc. came into my brain — now they are leaving me. I get more and more convinced that there is no other object in work except the purification of the soul — to make it fit for knowledge. This world with its good and evil will go on in various forms. Only the evil and good will take new names and new seats. My soul is hankering after peace and rest eternal undisturbed.
"Live alone, live alone. He who is alone never comes into conflict with others — never disturbs others, is never disturbed by others." I long, oh! I long for my rags, my shaven head, my sleep under the trees, and my food from begging! India is the only place where, with all its faults, the soul finds its freedom, its God. All this Western pomp is only vanity, only bondage of the soul. Never more in my life I realised more forcibly the vanity of the world. May the Lord break the bondage of all — may all come out of Maya — is the constant prayer of
VIVEKANANDA.
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/V M—

V
AUNTPUR,*
7th February, 1889.
DEAR M—,
Thanks a hundred thousand times, Master! You have hit Ramakrishna in the right point.
Few, alas, few understand him!
Yours,
VIVEKANANDA.
PS. My heart leaps with joy — and it is a wonder that I do not go mad when I find anybody thoroughly launched into the midst of the doctrine which is to shower peace on earth hereafter.
letter was written to Master Mahashaya.
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/LXXX Mrs. Bull

LXXX
READING, ENGLAND,
24th Sept., '95.
DEAR MRS. BULL,
I have not done any visible work as yet except helping Mr. Sturdy in studying Sanskrit. ... Mr. Sturdy wants me to bring over a monk from India from amongst my brethren to help him when I am away in America. I have written to India for one. . . . So far it is all right. I am waiting for the next wave. "Avoid not and seek not — wait for what the Lord sends", is my motto. . . . I am a slow writer, but the heart is full of gratitude.
Yours with best wishes,
VIVEKANANDA.
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/LX Mrs. Bull

LX
54 W. 33rd ST., NEW YORK, 14th Feb., 1895.
DEAR MRS. BULL,
Accept my heartfelt gratitude for your motherly advice. I hope I will be able to carry out them in life.
How can I express my gratitude to you for what you have already done for me and my work, and my eternal gratitude to you for your offering to do something more this year. But I sincerely believe that you ought to turn all your help to Miss Farmer's Greenacre work this year. India can wait as she is waiting centuries and an immediate work at hand should always have the preference.
Again, according to Manu, collecting funds even for a good work is not good for a Sannyasin, and I have begun to feel that the old sages were right. "Hope is the greatest misery, despair is the greatest happiness." It appears like a hallucination. I am getting out of them. I was in these childish ideas of doing this and doing that.
"Give up all desire and be at peace. Have neither friends nor foes, and live alone. Thus shall we travel having neither friends nor foes, neither pleasure nor pain, neither desire nor jealousy, injuring no creatures, being the cause of injury to no creatures — from mountain to mountain, from village to village, preaching the name of the Lord."
"Seek no help from high or low, from above or below. Desire nothing — and look upon this vanishing panorama as a witness and let it pass."
Perhaps these mad desires were necessary to bring me over to this country. And I thank the Lord for the experience.
I am very happy now. Between Mr. Landsberg and me, we cook some rice and lentils or barley and quietly eat it, and write something or read or receive visits from poor people who want to learn something, and thus I feel I am more a Sannyasin now than I ever was in America.
"In wealth is the fear of poverty, in knowledge the fear of ignorance, in beauty the fear of age, in fame the fear of backbiters, in success the fear of jealousy, even in body is the fear of death. Everything in this earth is fraught with fear. He alone is fearless who has given up everything" (Vairâgya-Shatakam, 31).
I went to see Miss Corbin the other day, and Miss Farmer and Miss Thursby were also there. We had a nice half-hour and she wants me to hold some classes in her home from next Sunday.
I am no more seeking for these things. If they come, the Lord be blessed, if not, blessed more be He.
Again accept my eternal gratitude.
Your devoted son,
VIVEKANANDA.
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/L Mrs. Bull

L
C/O MRS. E. TOTTEN.
1708, 1ST STREET, WASHINGTON, D.C.
27th Oct., 1894.
DEAR MRS. BULL,
Many thanks for your kindness in sending me the introduction to Mr. Frederic Douglas. You need not be sorry on account of the ill-treatment I received at the hands of a low class hotel-keeper at Baltimore. It was the fault of the Vrooman brothers. Why should they take me to a low hotel?
And then the American women, as everywhere, came to my rescue, and I had a very good time.
In Washington I am the guest of Mrs. E. Totten who is an influential lady here and a metaphysician. She is moreover the niece of one of my Chicago friends. So everything is going on all right. I also saw Mrs. Colville and Miss Young here.
With my eternal love and gratitude for you,
I remain, Yours etc.,
VIVEKANANDA.
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/LXX Alberta

LXX
19 W. 38, NEW YORK,
8th July, 1895.
DEAR ALBERTA, (Miss Alberta Sturges.)
I am sure you are engrossed in your musical studies now. Hope you have found out all about the scales by this time. I will be so happy to take a lesson on the scales from you next time we meet.
We had such jolly good time up there at Percy with Mr. Leggett — isn't he a saint?
Hollister is also enjoying Germany greatly, I am sure, and I hope none of you have injured your tongues in trying to pronounce German words — especially those beginning with sch, tz, tsz, and other sweet things.
I read your letter to your mother from on board Most possibly I am going over to Europe next September. I have never been to Europe yet. It will not be very much different from the United States after all. And I am already well drilled in the manners and customs of this country.
We had a good deal of rowing at Percy and I learnt a point or two in rowing. Aunt Joe Joe had to pay for her sweetness, for the flies and mosquitoes would not leave her for a moment. They rather gave me a wide berth, I think because they were very orthodox sabbatarian flies and would not touch a heathen. Again, I think, I used to sing a good deal at Percy, and that must have frightened them away. We had such fine birch trees. I got up an idea of making books out of the bark, as was used to be done in ancient times in our country, and wrote Sanskrit verses for your mother and aunt.
I am sure, Alberta, you are going to be a tremendously learned lady very soon.
With love and blessings for both of you,
Ever your affectionate,
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA.
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/XCII Yogen

XCII
(Translated from Bengali)
228 W. 39, NEW YORK.
24th Jan., 1896.
DEAR YOGEN,
. . . I am very sorry to heat that your health is not yet all right. Can you go to a very cold climate where there is plenty of snowfall in the winter, Darjeeling, for instance? The severity of the cold will set your stomach right, as it has done in my case. And can you give up altogether the habit of using ghee and spices? Butter digests more quickly than ghee. ...
Three months more and I go to England, to try once more to make some stir; the following winter to India — and after that, it depends on the Lord.
Put forth all nerve for the magazine that Sarada is wanting to publish. Ask Shashi to look to it. One thing, neither Kali nor anybody else has any need of coming to England at present. I shall train them first when I go to India, and then they may go wherever they please.
We would do nothing ourselves and would scoff at others who try to do something — this is the bane that has brought about our downfall as a nation. Want of sympathy and lack of energy are at the root of all misery, and you must therefore give these two up. Who but the Lord knows what potentialities there are in particular individuals — let all have opportunities, and leave the rest to the Lord. It is indeed very difficult to have an equal love for all, but without it there is no Mukti.
Yours affectionately,
VIVEKANANDA.