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# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Donaldson, Sir Stuart Alexander

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​Donaldson, Sir Stuart Alexander, was the son of Stuart Donaldson, and was born in London on Dec. 26th, 1815. He emigrated to Sydney in 1840, and became a clerk in the firm of Dawes & Co., of which he was afterwards the head. In Sept. 1851 he fought a duel with Sir Thomas Mitchell, Surveyor-General of New South Wales (q.v.). He was elected to the Assembly for Cumberland in 1856, and formed the first Constitutional Ministry in New South Wales in June 1856, but resigned his position as Premier and Chief Secretary in August in consequence of a vote of want of confidence. He accepted office again as Colonial Treasurer under Mr. (afterwards Sir Henry Watson) Parker in Oct. 1856, but on seeking re-election he was defeated for Sydney Hamlets. However, the member for South Cumberland retired to make way for him, and he was elected on Nov. 4th, but retired with his colleagues in Sept. 1857, after their defeat on the Electoral Bill. In 1860 he was knighted, and left the colony, which he twice revisited. Sir Stuart married in Feb. 1854, Amelia, seventh daughter of Frederick Cowper, of Carlton Hall and Unthank, Cumberland (who survived him), and died at Carlton Hall on Jan. 11th, 1867.
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CLVII Margot

CLVII
To Sister Nivedita
THE CALIFORNIA LIMITED
SANTA FE ROUTE
December 2nd, 1899
MY DEAR MARGOT,
Two nights are passed — today the third will come. If it proves as pleasant and somnolent as the last two, I [shall] rejoice.
The scenery today I am passing through is much like the neighborhood of Delhi, the beginning of a big desert, bleak hills, scanty, thorny shrubs, very little water. The little streams are frozen, but during the middle of the day it is hot. Must be [illegible] I presume, in summer.
I send this to the care of Mrs. Adams, (Probably Mrs. Milward Adams.) as I don't know your address. The Chicago work will not give you much, I am sure, except in education in the methods here, which I am sure will work out soon.
With all love and blessings,
VIVEKANANDA
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CLXIX Christina

CLXIX
To Sister Christine
C/O DR. LOGAN,
770 OAK STREET,
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA,
19th May 1900.
DEAR CHRISTINA,
How are you? When is your vacation to commence? I am still in California. Hope to start for the East in two or three weeks more.
Write me all about yourself and how things are going on. How is Mrs. Funkey [Funke]? And the other friends?
Yours as ever,
VIVEKANANDA.
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CLXIII Joe—

CLXIII
To Miss Josephine MacLeod
1231 PINE STREET
SAN FRANCISCO.
March 2nd 1900
DEAR JOE —
Your note enclosing two from France and three from India just received. I have had general good news and am happy.
Financially, I have got $300 in Los Angeles. About Mrs. Bowler,[6]* she has about a hundred odd dollars in cash. Mrs. Hendrick and she have not paid up as yet. That money — $300 in all — is with her. She will send it to me whenever I write.
Rev. Benjamin Fay Mills,[7]* a very popular Unitarian preacher in Oakland, invited me from here and paid the fare to San Francisco. I have spoken twice in Oakland to 1500 people each time. Last time I got from collection $30. I am going to have classes at 50 cents admission each.
San Francisco had one lecture the other night [February 23] at 50¢ each. It paid its expenses. This Monday [Sunday?] I am going to speak free — after that a class.
I went to see Mrs. Hurst [Hearst].[8]* She was not at home. I left a card — so with Prof. Le Conte.[9]*
Mary [Hale] writes that you wrote her of my coming any day to the East. I don't know. Here I have a large following —ready — made by my books. Will get some money, not much. St. Francis [Francis Leggett] may put the money in the bank for me — but can that be done without my signature? And I am here? It is good if it can be done. Did you see any possibility of my books being sold for good to any publisher?
The French invitation[10]* is all right. But it seems impossible to write any decent paper on the subject we chose. Because if I have to lecture and make money, very little time will be left for anything else. Again, I can not find any books (Sanskrit) here. So let me try to make a little money if I can and go to France all the same, but send them no paper. No scholarly work can be done in this haphazard and hurried fashion. It means time and study.
Shall I write to Mr. [Gerald] Nobel an acknowledgement and thanks? Write to me fully on these subjects if you can before you leave [for Europe]. My health is going on the same way. The gas is there more or less and this city is all climbing up[hill] — that tires me much.
With all love,
Yours affectionately,
VIVEKANANDA
P.S. Did anybody else respond to Mrs. Leggett's call?
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CLXII Margo

CLXII
To Sister Nivedita
LOS ANGELES
[Early February 1900]
DEAR MARGO [MARGOT],
You have the Gopâla.[6]* Add the Sâvitri story[7]* to that. I send you four more herewith. They ought to make a nice volume. Work on them a bit, will you. If you get a publisher in Chicago, all right; if not, Mr. Leggett promised to publish them sometime ago.
Yours,
VIVEKANANDA
P.S. The preliminary parts should be struck off.
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CLIX Christina

CLIX
To Sister Christine
921 WEST 21ST STREET,
LOS ANGELES,
9th December 1899.
MY DEAR CHRISTINA,
After all, it is good for me, and good for those I love, that I should come here. Here at last in California! One of our poets says: "Where is Benares, where is Kashmir, where Khorasan, where Gujarat! O Tulsi! thus, man's past Karma drags him on". And I am here. After all it is best, isn't it? Are you going to Boston? I am afraid you are not. I have not unsettled any of your plans, have I? — unnecessary expenses? Well, if any, I will make it up. Only the trouble is yours. I am ashamed of my eccentricities. Well, how are you? What are you doing? How are things going with you? Sleep if you can; it is better to sleep than get awakened. I pray that all good may come to thee — all peace, all strength to do and suffer. I have a great deal of strength to do, but very little to suffer.
I am so selfish again, always thinking of my own sufferings and paying no heed to others. Pray for me; send strong thoughts that I may have strength to suffer. I know you will. Now, I mean to remain a few weeks in this city. After that, "Mother" knows. I am physically much better now than I have been for months. The weakness of the heart is nearly gone. The dyspepsia is also much better, and [there is] very little. I can walk miles now without feeling it in the heart. If this continues, I expect to have a new lease on life. I am so, so sorry of asking you to come to Boston and flying away. If you are there, I hope you will enjoy the place and the meetings. If you have given it up — well, did you take leave and not go to Boston? My! what a bungle! Well, I ask a thousand pardons, if such is the case. Things must look brighter anyway, sooner or later. What of these little, few days of life!
How is Mrs. Funke? Loads of love for her. How long a leave [do] you get at Christmas? When does it begin? If you feel inclined and willing, write me a long note, will you? But don't tell my friends my whereabouts. I want to be off from the world for a time, if I can. Will you kindly send Mr. Freer's address to Mrs. Bull? She needs it. I had a lecture here last night. The hall was not crowded, as there was very little ad[vertisement], but a fairly good — sized audience though. I hope they were pleased. If I feel better, I am going to have classes in this city soon. I am on the business path this time, you know. Want a few dollars quick, if I can.
Ever yours in the Lord,
VIVEKANANDA.
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CLXIV Christina

CLXIV
To Sister Christine
1719 TURK STREET,
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA,
12th March 1900.
DEAR CHRISTINA,
Just now received a letter from you through New York. I, the other day, wrote you one c/o Mrs. Funke, as I was not sure which of your addresses in my notebook was the correct one! Mental telepathy or foolishness — what is it?
By this time you must have got mine. There is nothing particular about me, except things are going on at the same rate — very little money — making, a good deal of work, and moving about. I leave here in April and come to Chicago for a few days, then to Detroit and then, through New York, go to England. I hope you are all right. I am very calm and peaceful mentally, and hope to remain so for the rest of my life.
How are Mrs. Funkey [Funke] and the rest of our friends?
With all love,
VIVEKANANDA.
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CLI Christina

CLI
To Sister Christine
21 WEST 34TH STREET,
NEW YORK,
10th November 1899.
MY DEAR CHRISTINA,
I received your letter just now. I am now in New York. Dr. [Egbert] Guernsey analysed my urine yesterday, and there was no sugar or albumen in it. So my kidneys are all right, at least at present. The heart is only nervous, requires calming! — some cheerful company and good, loving friends and quiet. The only difficulty is the dyspepsia, and that is the evil. For instance, I am all right in the morning and can walk miles, but in the evening it is impossible to walk after a meal — the gas — that depends entirely up on food, does it not? I ought to try the Battle Creek food. If I come to Detroit, there will be quiet and Battle Creek food for me.
But if you come to Cambridge with all the instructions of the Battle Creek food, I will have it prepared there; or, between you and me, we will cook it. I am a good hand at that. You don't know a thing about cooking. Well, you may help in cleaning the plates etc. I always get money when I need it badly. "Mother" always sees to that. So, no danger on that head. I am not in the least danger of life, the Doctors agree — only if this dyspepsia goes away. And that is "food", "food", "food", and no worry. Oh, what a worry I have had! Say we go somewhere else and make a little party and keep house ourselves. In Cambridge, Mrs. Bull has a quiet separate place — her studio house. You can have rooms there. I wish you to know Mrs. Bull. She is a saint, a real saint, if ever there was one. Wait for my next letter. I will write today again, or tomorrow after seeing Mrs. Bull.
Ever yours in the Lord,
VIVEKANANDA.
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CLVIII Mother

CLVIII
To Mrs. G. W. Hale
LOS ANGELES
6 December 1899
MY DEAR MOTHER,
A few lines to say my safe arrival and am going to resume my usual work of lecturing here.
I am much better than I was in Chicago and hope soon to become well again.
I cannot tell you how I enjoyed once more the little visit with my American Mother and Sisters.
Harriet has scored a triumph really. I am charmed with Mr. Woolley — only hope Mary will be equally fortunate. It gives me a new lease of life to see people happy. May they all be happy.
Ever with love, your son,
VIVEKANANDA
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CLVI Mother

CLVI
To Mrs. G. W. Hale
THE CALIFORNIA LIMITED
SANTA FE ROUTE
1 December 1899
MY DEAR MOTHER,
Excuse this scrawl as the train is dancing.
I passed a good night and hope to have a good time all through. With all love for the sisters and Mr. [Clarence] Woolley (Husband of Mrs. Hale’s daughter Harriet.) and Bud and Father Pope.
With love,
VIVEKANANDA
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CLV Dhira Mata—

CLV
To Mrs. Ole Bull
CHICAGO
30 November 1899
MY DEAR DHIRA MATA —
I am going to leave this place tonight. They have given me a new trunk — a big one. The Maspero book[6]* is with me, only the second volume. The first volume must be in Boston. Kindly send it c/o Joe [Miss Josephine MacLeod].
They have been very kind. Madame [Emma] Calvé‚ came to see me day before yesterday. She is a great woman.
I have nothing to write here except that Margo [Sister Nivedita] is doing very well, except some people were complaining last night that she frightened them with her assertion that Swami can not make mistakes!!!
Hope things are going on with you very well. This is in haste. I write in length from California.
Ever your son,
VIVEKANANDA
My love to Mrs. [Olea] Vaughn. (Mrs. Ole Bull’s daughter.)
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Becerra, Gasparo

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BECERRA, Gasparo, bě-thĕr'rạ, gäs-pä'rō, Spanish artist: b. Baeza, Andalusia, 1520; d. Madrid 1570. He studied for some time in Rome under Michelangelo and others, and on his return became sculptor and painter to Philip II. He adorned the palace of Madrid with several frescoes, and also executed works in sculpture and architecture.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Beche, Henry de la

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BECHE, bāsh, Sir Henry de la, English geologist: b. 1796; d. 1855. He founded the geological survey of Great Britain, which was soon undertaken by the government, De la Beche being appointed director-general. He also founded the Jermyn Street Museum of Economic or Practical Geology, and the School of Mines. His principal works are ‘Geology of Jamaica’; ‘Classification of European Rocks’; ‘Geological Manual’; ‘Researches in Theoretical Geology’; ‘Geology of Cornwall, Devon, and West Somerset,’ etc.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Becher, Johann Joachim

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BECHER, Johann Joachim, bĕH'ėr, yō'hän yō'ä-Hīm, German chemist: b. Speyer 1635; d. 1682. He traveled and resided in various parts of Germany, Holland, Italy, Sweden and Great Britain, investigating Cornish and Scotch mines. He wrote a number of works on chemistry, the chief of which is entitled ‘Physica Subterranea.’ In it he expounds his views on the composition of inorganic bodies, the constituents of which, according to him, are three earthy principles, the vitrifiable, the combustible and the mercurial. The metals consist of these three earths in different proportions, and whenever a metal is calcined the combustible and mercurial earths are expelled, and the vitrifiable earth forms the residual calx. When these principles are combined with water different salts are formed, and a fundamental acid, which exists in all the others. This theory was subsequently developed by Stahl, who, by means of the principle of phlogiston (q.v.), explained not only the calcination of metals, but the phenomena of combustion in general.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Bechstein, Ludwig

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BECHSTEIN, Ludwig, lood'vĭH, German poet and novelist: b. 1801; d. 1860. He is chiefly remembered for ‘The Legend Treasure and the Legendary Cycles of Thuringia’ (1835-38); ‘German Fairy-Tale Book’ (1845, 41st ed., 1893); and others. Among his epical poems are ‘The Children of Haymon’ (1830); ‘The Dance of Death’ (1831); ‘New Natural History of Pet Birds’ (1846), a humorous didactic poem; and ‘Thuringia's Royal House’ (1865).
Of his numerous novels, chiefly historical, the best known is ‘Journeys of a Musician’ (1836-37).
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Bechuanaland

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BECHUANALAND, bĕt-choo-ä'nä-lănd, south Africa, name formerly applied to the region inhabited by the Bechuanas. It included (1) the crown colony of Bechuanaland, with an area 51,524 square miles and a population of 99,553, annexed to the Cape Colony in 1895, and since 1910 one of the divisions of the province of the Cape of Good Hope in the union of South Africa; (2) the Bechuanaland Protectorate (q.v.).
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Bechuanas

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BECHUANAS, an important tribe of south African negroes, inhabiting the Transvaal. Next to the Kaffirs they are the most significant of the many native tribes, politically considered. Though naturally of a peaceful disposition, they are very far advanced in military and civil organization. The cultivation of maize or corn and the herding of cattle are their main occupations, though they are also noted as workers in leather and metals. Their villages are far more advanced structurally than those of the Zulus, their habitations being divided into various rooms and constructed with the object of allowing circulation of air. The various communities, each under the rule of a local chief, are federated into powerful kingdoms, at the head of which is a king, or supreme chief. In color the Bechuanas are about the complexion of American Indians though considerably smaller in stature. See Bechuanaland.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Bechstein, Johann Matthäus

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BECHSTEIN, Johann Matthäus, beH'stīn, yô'hän mä-tā'oos, German naturalist: b. Waltershausen, Gotha, 1757; d. 1822. He studied theology for four years at Jena, but never felt in his element unless hunting in the fields or roaming the forest. After teaching for some time he resolved to devote himself to his favorite pursuits, and in 1800 the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen made him director of the Forest Academy of Dreissigacker, in the vicinity of his capital. This academy, under Bechstein's management, became one of the most celebrated establishments of the kind in Germany. His chief work is his ‘Natural History of Germany,’ in four volumes. In Great Britain he is best known by a treatise on singing-birds.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Beck, Adam

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BECK, Sir Adam, Canadian statesman: b. (of German extraction), Baden, Ontario, 20 June 1857. He was educated at Galt Grammar School; was mayor of London, Ontario, 1902-04; and has been a member of the Provincial Parliament since 1902, occupying a place in the Whitney cabinet of 1905. He introduced into the legislature the measure for the establishment of the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario, of which he has been chairman since its inception. He is a noted breeder of horses. He was knighted in 1914.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Fay, Joseph

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FAY, fī, Joseph, German painter: b. Cologne, 10 Aug. 1815; d. Düsseldorf, 27 July 1875. His art education began in the Düsseldorf Academy and was continued in Paris where he turned his attention to historical painting. His first picture ‘Samson and Delilah,’ was exhibited in his 27th year. He painted a series of frescoes in the Council Chamber at Elberfeld, in which was portrayed the history of Germany from the destruction of the Varian legions. His fertile pencil produced among other pictures ‘Thisbe’; ‘Romeo and Juliet’; ‘Gretchen.’ He later on paid some attention to genre, depicting scenes in Italian life, reminiscences of travel in the peninsula. Felicitous conception, brilliant coloring and dextrous brush work are conspicuous in his productions.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Fay, Theodore Sedgwick

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FAY, Theodore Sedgwick, American writer: b. New York, 10 Feb. 1807; d. Berlin, Germany, 17 Nov. 1898. He was eminent in periodical journalism for years. To this period belongs his book ‘Dreams and Reveries of a Quiet Man’ (1832). He served with ability in the United States diplomatic service, first as secretary of the legation at Berlin (1837-53), and then (1853-61) as Minister at Berne, Switzerland; and wrote ‘Norman Leslie’ (1835); and ‘The Countess Ida’ (1841), tales; ‘Ulric’ (1851), a poem; ‘Views of Christianity’ (1856); ‘The Three Germanys’ (1889); ‘Great Outlines of Geography’; ‘History of Switzerland,’ etc. After 1861 he lived in Berlin.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Feis Ceoil

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FEIS CEOIL, fäsh'k-yōl' (Ir. feis, gathering, convention, ceoil, of music). In Ireland, an assembly at which competitions are held for bands, choirs, vocal and instrumental soloists, etc. The first assembly of the kind in modern times was held in Dublin in 1897 for the purpose of encouraging native performers and composers. Since that time many such assemblies are held in the provincial towns and even in rural districts. The movement has been most successful and is a result of the general Gaelicising program of the Gaelic League (q.v.).
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Feint

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FEINT, fānt, a strategic movement, designed to deceive the enemy and conceal the main design or purpose. See Tactics, Military.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Feisi, Abul Feis ibn Mubárak

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FEISI, Abul Feis ibn Mubárak, ā'bool fā ēs ibn moo-bä'räk fī'si or fā-ē-sē', Indo-Persian poet and scholar: b. Agra, India, 1547; d. there 1595. He surpassed all his contemporaries in philological, philosophical, historical and medical knowledge, and about 1572 was crowned “king of poesy” in the court of the Emperor Akbar. Of his poems the most noteworthy are his lyrics — odes, encomia, elegies and specially his four-line pieces or apothegms. Their exalted pantheism brought on him the enmity of the orthodox Moslem clergy. He wrote also many double-rhymed poems; and a Persian imitation of the famous Indian epic ‘Nala and Damajanti,’ designed to form the third member of an epic cycle of which the first was to be ‘The Centre of the Circle,’ the second ‘Solomon and Balkis’ (the queen of Sheba), the fourth ‘The Seven Zones of the Earth,’ and the fifth ‘The History of Akbar’; only the first and third were completed. His scientific treatises were numerous.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Fay, Charles Ernest

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FAY, Charles Ernest, American educator and alpinist: b. Roxbury, Mass., 10 March 1846. He was graduated from Tufts College in 1868 and has been professor of modern languages there since 1871. A founder of the Modern Language Association of America and of the New England Modern Language Association, also of the New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools (1885) of which he was president 1888-89. In American mountaineering he has held a prominent place, taking part in the founding of the Appalachian Mountain Club (1876) and the American Alpine Club (1902), both of which he has served as
president. He has also edited their publications Appalachia and Alpina Americana, furnishing numerous articles for the former and richly illustrated monograph ‘The Rocky Mountains of Canada’ for the latter. He counts among the pioneers in the exploration of the Alpine regions of the Dominion. His activity in these fields has been recognized abroad by his election as an honorary member of the English, Italian and Canadian Alpine Clubs. He is a frequent lecturer on literary and geographical subjects.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Feilden, Henry Wemyss

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FEILDEN, fēld'ĕn, Henry Wemyss, English naturalist: b. 6 Oct. 1838. He was educated at Cheltenham College, served in the Indian Mutiny 1857-58 and in China in 1860. In the American Civil War he served in the army of the Confederate States with the rank of assistant adjutant-general, surrendering after the last battle of the war, with the remnant of the Army of Tennessee under Gen. J. E. Johnston to General Sherman. He served as naturalist to the British Polar Expedition of 1875-76 and took part in the wars with the Boers in 1881 and 1900-01. He visited Grinnell Land, Ellesmere Land, Greenland, Spitzbergen, Novaya Zemlya, Waigats, Lapland and northern Russia for scientific research. He was made Companion of the Bath in 1900.