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# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Alsop, John

​ALSOP, John, delegate, was born in Middletown, Conn., grandson of Richard Alsop, a native of England, who settled at Newtown, Long Island, N.Y., about 1665. John removed to New York when a boy, engaged in mercantile pursuits, and amassed a large fortune. He was an active Whig and was elected a delegate from New York to the Continental congress, serving from Sept. 14, 1774, to Oct. 26, 1774. He was re-elected May 10, 1775, and served until the latter part of that year, when, although favoring independence, he refused to sign the declaration, owing to the fact that he had not received proper instructions from the provincial assembly of New York. Criticism for this resulted in his resignation, and he retired to Middletown, Conn., where he resided until the British troops evacuated the city. He then returned and entered actively into the work of re-organization; was influential in securing a new charter for the New York chamber of commerce, and was elected the eighth president of that body. His daughter Mary (1769-1819) married Rufus King, a member of the U.S. senate and minister to England. He died at Newtown, Long Island, N. Y., Nov. 22, 1794.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Allston, William

​ALLSTON, William, soldier, was born in Charleston, S. C, in 1757. He married a daughter of Rebecca Motte and was an extensive planter and slave-owner. During the revolutionary war, he served with distinction as captain under Marion, and subsequently was elected state senator, to which office he was many times re-elected. He served as presidential elector. His ​son, Joseph Allston, was a governor of South Carolina. Colonel Allston died on his home plantation June 26, 1839.
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CCXXIII Mademoiselle

CCXXIII
To Mme. Emma Calvé
[This letter of condolence was written upon the death of Mme. Calvé’s father and enclosed in a letter to Miss Josephine MacLeod.]
THE MATH, BELUR
HOWRAH DISTRICT
BENGAL, INDIA
the 15th May 1902
MY DEAR MADEMOISELLE,
With great sorrow I learn the sad bereavement that has come upon you.
These blows must come upon us all. They are in the nature of things, yet they are so hard to bear.
The force of association makes out of this unreal world a reality; and the longer the company, the more real seems the shadow. But the day comes when the unreal goes to the unreal, and, ah, how sad to bear.
Yet that which is real, the Soul, is ever with us, omnipresent. Blessed is the person who has seen the real in this world of vanishing shadows.
I hope, dear Mademoiselle, you have greatly improved in health since our last meeting in Egypt.
May the Lord always shower His choicest blessings on you is the everlasting prayer of
VIVEKANANDA
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CCXV Joe—

CCXV
To Miss Josephine MacLeod
GOPAL LAL VILLA, BENARAS CANTONMENT
7th Feb. 1902.
MY DEAR JOE —
We have safely reached Benaras, and Mr. Okakura [Kakuzo] has already done Benaras. He goes to see Sarnath (the old Buddhistic place) today and starts on his tour tomorrow.
He has asked Niranjan [Swami Niranjanananda] to accompany him and he has consented.
Kanay [Nirbhayananda] has supplied him with everything he asked for — and he asks me also to send you the accounts. This, on the other page.
I hope Nivedita and Mrs. [Ole] Bull have safely arrived. I am rather better than at Buddha Gaya. This house is nice — well furnished and has a good many rooms and parlours. There is a big garden all round and beautiful roses — and gigantic trees. It is rather cooler here than at Gaya. There was no hitch to our friends being admitted into the chief temple and [allowed to] touch the Sign of Shiva and to worship. The Buddhists, it seems, are always admitted.
With all love and welcome to Mrs. Bull and Nivedita — if they have arrived — and all to you,
VIVEKANANDA
[Enclosed in the above letter was the following accounts list.]
4TH FEBRUARY 1902. Rs 100
Rs. As. P.[6]*
Train hire from Gaya to Benares 20 4 0 Cab hire 5 0 0 Tel message 2 0 0 Refreshment Room (Morning) 1 8 0 Cooly hire Gaya 0 10 0 Tobacco etc. 0 5 0 Refreshment Room (Evening) 2 0 3 Cooly hire (at Benares) 1 1 0 Cab hire at Benares 1 10 0
Total 34 6 3
5TH FEBRUARY
Paid to Medicine for Mr. K. Okakura 1 8 0 " [Ditto] Oatmeal & corn — flour 1 4 0 " Tobacco etc. 0 6 3 " Bread etc. 0 2 0 Paid to Barber 0 3 0 " Fish 0 7 6
Total 3 14 9
6TH FEBRUARY 1902
Pickles 1 0 0 Sweetmeats 0 9 0 Carriage hire 1 8 0 Priests of Vishvanath etc. 10 4 0
Total 13 5 0
Things purchased for store at Gopal Lal Villa before Swamiji's arrival 17 11 9
Total 69 5 9
Paid to Expenses from Calcutta to Buddh— Gaya 30 10 3
Rs. 100 0 0
(“P.” stands for pie-s, twelve of them making one Anna (As.) and sixteen annas making one rupee (Rs.).)
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CCXXVI Christine

CCXXVI
To Sister Christine
THE MATH, BELUR, DIST. HOWRAH,
15th June 1902.
DEAR CHRISTINE,
Just now received your note. I am quite easy in my mind so long [as] you live with Mrs. [Charlotte] Sevier at Mayavati. You know, anxiety is one thing I must avoid to recover. I will be very anxious if you are in Calcutta, at Baghbazar. I am slowly recovering. Stay with Mrs. Sevier as long as you can. Don't come down with Margot [Sister Nivedita].
With love,
VIVEKANANDA.
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CCXXV Christine

CCXXV
To Sister Christine
THE MATH, BELUR, DIST. HOWRAH,
14th June 1902.
MY DEAR CHRISTINE,
Your letters had to wait a few days, as I was out of town in a village.[6]* Well, many thanks for all the information I got. Mr. Okakura [Kakuzo] has been to the Math, but I was away. He will be in Calcutta a few weeks more and then goes to Bombay. He intends taking a house near the city to learn intimately the customs of Bengalees. I am so glad to learn Margo's [Sister Nivedita's] intention to stop at Mayavati longer. She really requires good rest, and she had none in Europe, I am sure of that. If she were amenable to my advice as of old, I would take away every book and every scrap of paper from her, make her walk some, eat a lot and sleep a lot more. As to talking, I would have the merriest conversation all the while.
I have a beautiful letter from Mrs. Sevier, and [am] so happy to learn that she loves you more and more. But plumpness is the criterion, mon amie [my friend], for a' [all] that.
So there was a great flutter in our dovecote owing to my letters, but things must have assumed their old form by this time. The boy, my nephew, is going to be sometime yet in the Ashrama; make him talk English with a good accent — do. No foreign language can be learnt properly unless you talk in it from childhood.
Mr. Bose[7]* is still there, I hope; and you must have liked him immensely. He is a man, a brick. Tender him my best regards, will you?
Have you any water in the lakes now? Do you get the snows clearer? It has been raining all through this summer here. We had very few burning days, only a number of stuffy ones. Our rains also have nearly set in. In a week the deluge will commence in earnest.
As for me, I am much stronger than before; and when seven miles of jolting in a bullock-cart and railway travel of thirty-four miles did not bring back the dropsy to the feet, I am sure it is not going to return.
But anyway, it is the Math that suits me best just now.
With all love,
VIVEKANANDA.
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CCXXII Christine

CCXXII
To Sister Christine
THE MATH, BELUR,
DIST. HOWRAH,
15th May 1902.
MY DEAR CHRISTINE,
So glad to learn you like Mayavati. The heat here has come in earnest, and no rain. I drink very little water though.
I have given up all idea of going to Mayavati or Almora. I bear the heat well, but the rains here are to be avoided. I will remove [myself] to somewhere else then.
No news from Calcutta. I am in a hurry. Write me the details of whatever you see or feel there — about men and things.
Yours with all love,
VIVEKANANDA.
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CCXXI Joe—

CCXXI
To Miss Josephine MacLeod
THE MATH
2nd April 1902
MY DEAR JOE —
The telegram is already gone, and I expect you will fill all arrangements there.
The Dak bungalows en route to Mayavati provide no food, nor have they cooks.
Provisions have to be taken at Kathgodam and arrangements made.
If you find any difficulty, go straight to Almora and make your arrangements at leisure. The Dak bungalows on the way to Almora provide food and in Almora there is a nice Dak bungalow.
Hoping everything will come your way, as it always does — (except Grandpa's[6]* health).
Yours affectionately,
VIVEKANANDA
I like Mr. [Tokuno] Oda much — he means business.
V.
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CCXXVII Christine

CCXXVII
To Sister Christine
THE MATH, BELUR, DIST. HOWRAH,
21st June 1902.
MY DEAR CHRISTINE,
You have not the least cause to be anxious. I am getting on anyhow and am quite strong. As to diet, I find I have to restrict myself and not follow the prescription of my doctor to eat anything I like. The pills continue, however. Will you ask the boys if they can get "Amalaki" [Emblic myrobalan] fruits in the place now? We cannot get them in the plains now. They are rather sour and puckery eaten raw; but make marmalade of whole [ones] — delicious. Then they are the best things for fermentation I ever get.
No anxiety on the score of Marie Louise's[6]* arrival in Calcutta. She has not yet made any noise.
Things go on the same. I am trying to go to Monghyr — a place near Calcutta and said to be very salubrious.
We will think of your coming to Baghbazar after Nivedita has fairly started; till then keep quiet and lay on food.
With all love to yourself, the boys and Mother [Mrs. Charlotte Sevier],
VIVEKANANDA.
PS — I am laying on adipose tissues fast — especially about the abdominal regions: "It is fearful to see!"
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CCXVII Mrs. Hansbrough

CCXVII
To Mrs. Alice (Shanti) Hansbrough
BENARAS
14 Feb. 1902
MY DEAR MRS. HANSBROUGH,
I am eternally indebted to you for what you did for me in the past, and infinitely more now for what you are doing for Turiyananda.
A gloom came over the Math when news reached Calcutta of his severe illness. Now, I hope, he has recovered completely, and I will be so glad to get the news from you.
It seems the American climate does not suit him. In that case it will be better for him to come over to India whenever he thinks fit.
In all probability I am going to Japan in a month or two. Ramakrishnananda accompanies me. Turiyananda may come over to Japan and I go to America. "Mother" knows best, however, and we obey.
I am just now in Benaras for a few days. All letters should, however, be addressed to the Belur Math.
Kindly convey my best love to Turiyananda and to yourself, the holy family and the other friends.
Ever yours in the Lord,
VIVEKANANDA
PS. Let Turiyananda take rest all the time now. He must not work at all till I reach Japan or America.
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CCXX Mother

CCXX
To Mrs. Ole Bull
[THE MATH, P.O. BELUR, DIST. HOWRAH,
March (?) 1902]
DEAR MOTHER,[6]*
I am glad Chinnu has arrived. Any hour you like will suit [me] for your coming tomorrow. But it is ferocious heat here from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
I would, therefore, suggest that you start after breakfast and remain the day here and have some Bengalee fish lunch, and go back in the evening.
I insist on your taking a cab here and back. A cab to come and go costs quite as much or less than a boat, and there is no change [of transportation]. If the cabby does not understand Belur, tell him to go to a place two miles south of Bally. He must know Bally, and then let him ask his way to the Math.
One such drenching and capsizing experience as Mr. Okakura [Kakuzo] had the other day will unsettle your nerves for days; and we expect such rough weather every evening this month. The land route is nearer, easier, and cheaper from where you are. I have also instructed your servant, the bearer of the letter.
Ever your Son,
VIVEKANANDA.
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CCXVI Joe—

CCXVI
To Miss Josephine MacLeod
GOPAL LAL VILLA
BENARAS CANTONMENT
14 February 1902.
DEAR JOE —
I received a note yesterday from Mr. Okakura [Kakuzo]. They have seen Agra on their way to Gwalior. They must be there now.
The wire he sent to Japan was to Mr. [Tokuno] Oda to come immediately. There was a work. "Six" in it also.
It is quite cool here even now — and will remain so for this month at least. Is it getting warm in Calcutta?
I hope Mrs. [Ole] Bull and Nivedita are getting well rested after that tremendous journey.
I am so so.
The boys all send love.
Ever Yours with love and blessings,
VIVEKANANDA.
# The Brass Check/Chapter 66

Chapter LXVI A Frame-up that Fell Down
In concluding this, the most important and most dangerous book I have ever written, I have a personal word to leave with the reader. I have here attacked the most powerful interests in America, and it seems to me hardly conceivable that they will permit the attack to go out to the world, to be circulated among the general public, without some attempt at interference.
What will they do? I cannot say. There are things on every page of this book that are libelous unless they are true. If I am brought into court and required to prove them, I may be facing a judge who has been appointed by the interests I have exposed, a jury which has been selected by the interests I have exposed, a prosecuting attorney who is looking to these interests for his campaign-funds and his publicity at the next election. The trial will be conducted on this simple basis that everything favorable to me is kept from the public, and everything that can be made to seem unfavorable to me is sent by telegraph and cable all over the world.
I would not mind losing what little property I own in the world; I would not mind going to jail for this book. There are only two things I would mind, first, having the book barred from circulation, and second, being discredited in the eyes of those I seek to influence in favor of Social Justice. So in this, the last word I may be able to get to you on the subject, I wish to warn you of one crucial fact, which is this:
Our police and prosecuting authorities, our political machines and Big Business interests, are many of them practiced in the art of producing in court whatever testimony may be required in an emergency. There are few traction interests or other public service corporations in America which do not regularly employ perjured witnesses in case of need; and those which have given up the custom have done so merely because they have got the courts and the jury system so completely in their hands that they no longer care what evidence is introduced against them. We have seen Tom Mooney held in jail for three years, entirely upon the basis of perjured testimony. Even the trial judge has written that he is satisfied that Tom Mooney is innocent, but still Tom Mooney stays in jail!
I am doing what I can to get this book to the people. I intend to go on doing what I can to that end. Meantime I say to you, my readers, what I said to my wife when I went out to Colorado on behalf of the coal-strikers: "Whatever you read about me, don't worry. If there is any scandal, pay no attention to it, for that is the way they fight in Denver."
That is the way Big Business fights all over America. …
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# The Dial (Third Series)/Volume 75/Briefer Mention (July 1923)

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# The Dial (Third Series)/Volume 75/Briefer Mention (November 1923)

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# The Botanical Magazine/Volume 1/18

[ 18 ]
Geranium Reichardi. Dwarf Geranium.
Class and Order.
Monadelphia Decandria.
Generic Character.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
This species of Geranium, so strikingly different from all others at present cultivated in our gardens, has been known for several years to the Nursery-men in the neighbourhood of London, by the name of acaule, a name we should gladly have retained, had not Professor Murray described it in the 14th edition of Linnæus's Systema Vegetabilium, under the name of Reichardi, a name he was disposed to give it in compliment to a French gentleman, who first discovered it in the island of Minorca, and introduced it into the gardens of France.
Linnæus describes many of the Geraniums, as having only five antheræ, though several of those he thus describes have to our certain knowledge ten, the five lowermost of which shedding their pollen first, often drop off, and leave the filaments apparently barren: but in this species (with us at least) there never are more than five, but betwixt each stamen, there is a broad pointed barren filament or squamula, scarcely to be distinguished by the naked eye.
The usual and best practice is to make a green-house plant of this species, though it has been known to remain in the open ground, during a mild winter, unhurt.
It continues to have a succession of blossoms during the greatest part of the summer, and may be propagated either by seed or parting its roots.
# The Botanical Magazine/Volume 1/24

[ 24 ]
Agrostemma Coronaria. Rose Cockle, or Campion.
Class and Order.
Decandria Pentagynia.
Generic Character.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
Grows spontaneously in Italy and Siberia; Linnæus informs us that the blossom is naturally white, with red in the middle.
"The single Rose Campion has been long an inhabitant of the English gardens, where, by its seeds having scattered, it is become a kind of weed. There are three varieties of this plant, one with deep red, another with flesh-coloured, and a third with white flowers, but these are of small esteem, for the double Rose Campion being a finer flower, has turned the others out of most fine gardens. The single sorts propagate fast enough by the seeds, the sort with double flowers never produces any, so is only propagated by parting of the roots; the best time for this is in autumn, after their flowers are past; in doing of this, every head which can be slipped off with roots should be parted; these should be planted in a border of fresh undunged earth, at the distance of six inches, observing to water them gently until they have taken root, after which they will require no more, for much wet is injurious to them, as is also dung. After the heads are well rooted, they should be planted into the borders of the Flower-Garden, where they will be very ornamental during the times of their flowering, which is in July and August." Miller's Gard. Dict. ed. 6. 4to.
Miller, by mistake, calls this plant Cœlirosa.
# The Botanical Magazine/Volume 1/23

[ 23 ]
Tropæolum majus. Greater Indian-Cress, or Nasturtium.
Class and Order.
Octandria Monogynia.
Generic Character.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
The present plant is a native of Peru, and is said by Linnæus to have been first brought into Europe in the year 1684; it is certainly one of the greatest ornaments the Flower-Garden can boast: it varies in colour, and is also found in the Nurseries with double flowers. The former, as is well known, is propagated by seed; the latter by cuttings, which should be struck on a hot-bed. To have these plants early, they should be raised with other tender annuals; they usually begin to flower in July, and continue blossoming till the approach of winter: the stalks require to be supported, for if left to themselves they trail on the ground, overspread, and destroy the neighbouring plants.
Elizabeth Christina, one of the daughters of Linnæus, is said to have perceived the flowers to emit spontaneously, at certain intervals, sparks like those of electricity, visible only in the dusk of the evening, and which ceased when total darkness came on.
The flowers have the taste of water-cress, with a degree of sweetness, which that plant does not possess, more particularly resident in the spur of the calyx or nectary; hence are sometimes used in salads, and hence the plant acquires its name of Nasturtium.
# The Botanical Magazine/Volume 1/25

[ 25 ]
Dianthus chinensis. China or Indian Pink.
Class and Order.
Decandria Digynia.
Generic Character.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
This species, unknown to the older botanists, is a native of China, hence its name of China Pink; but, in the nurseries, it is in general better known by the name of Indian Pink.
Though it cannot boast the agreeable scent of many of its congeners, it eclipses most of them in the brilliancy of its colours; there are few flowers indeed which can boast that richness and variety found among the most improved varieties of this species; and as these are easily obtained from seed, so they are found in most collections, both single and double.
It is little better than an annual, but will sometimes continue two years in a dry soil, which it affects.
Attempts have been made to force it, but, as far as we have learned, with no great success.
# The Botanical Magazine/Volume 1/26

[ 26 ]
Stapelia Variegata. Variegated Stapelia.
Class and Order.
Pentandria Digynia.
Generic Character.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
This very singular plant is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, where it grows and flourishes on the rocks with the Stapelia hirsuta.
If these plants be kept in a very moderate stove in winter, and in summer placed in an airy glass-case where they may enjoy much free air, but screened from wet and cold, they will thrive and flower very well; for although they will live in the open air in summer, and may be kept through the winter in a good green-house; yet these plants will not flower so well as those managed in the other way. They must have little water given them, especially in winter.
It is very seldom that the variegata produces seed-vessels in this country; Miller observes, in upwards of forty years that he cultivated it, he never saw it produce its pods but three times, and then on such plants only as were plunged into the tan-bed in the stove.
This plant may be propagated without seeds, as it grows fast enough from slips; treatment the same as that of the Creeping Cereus, which see.
It takes its name of Stapelia from Stapel, a Dutchman, author of some botanical works, particularly a Description of Theophrastus's plants.
# The Botanical Magazine/Volume 1/19

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Hemerocallis Flava. Yellow Day-lily.
Class and Order.
Hexandria Monogynia.
Generic Character.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
This Genus has been called Hemerocallis, in English, Day-Lily, from the short duration of its blossoms, but these are not quite so fugacious in this species as in the fulva.
It very rarely happens that Linnæus, in his specific character of a plant, has recourse to colour, he has however in this instance; but this seems to arise from his considering them rather as varieties, than species. To us they appear to be perfectly distinct, and in addition to several other characters, the flava is distinguished by the fragrance of its blossoms.
This species is an inhabitant of Hungary and Siberia, and consequently bears our climate exceedingly well; it requires a moist soil, and a situation somewhat shady, and is easily propagated by parting its roots in autumn.
# The Botanical Magazine/Volume 1/21

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Iris Versicolor. Particoloured Iris.
Class and Order.
Triandria Monogynia.
Generic Character.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
A native of Virginia, Maryland, and Pensylvania, has a perennial root, is hardy, and will thrive in almost any soil or situation; may be increased by parting its roots in autumn.
Our plant is the picta of Miller, and the versicolor of Miller is, we believe, the sibirica of Linnæus.
This species has, for the most part, a stalk unusually crooked or elbowed, by which it is particularly distinguished. It flowers in June, as do most of this beautiful tribe.