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In Letter No. 16, Mahatma [[Koot Hoomi]] offers reassurance to [[A. P. Sinnett]] that he is trying to calm down the agitated [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|Helena Blavatsky]].
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! '''People involved:'''
Written by: [[Koot Hoomi]]<br>
Received by: [[A. P. Sinnett]]<br>
Sent via:
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! '''Dates:'''
Written: '''Feb. 11-18, 1888 per Mary K. Neff'''<br>
Postmarked:<br>
Received: '''March 1, 1881 per Conger'''<br>
Other:
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! '''Places:'''
Sent from: <br>
Received: Galle, Ceylon<br>
Via:
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== Page 1 transcription, image, and notes ==
 
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My dear Ambassador --
 
To quiet the anxiety I see lurking within your mind, and which has even a more definite form than you have expressed, let me say that I will use my best endeavours to calm our highly sensitive - not always sensible [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|old friend]], and make her stop at her post. Ill health resulting from natural causes,and mental anxiety have made her nervous to an extreme degree and sadly impaired her usefulness to us. For a fortnight past she has been all but useless, and her emotions have sped along her nerves like electricity thro' a telegraphic
 
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'''NOTES:'''
* "Old friend" refers to [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|H. P. Blavatsky]].
 
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== Page 2 transcription, image, and notes ==
 
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wire. All has been chaos. I am sending these few lines by a friend to [[Henry Steel Olcott|Olcott]] so that they may be forwarded without her knowledge. Consult freely with our friends in Europe and return with a good book in your hand and a good plan in your head. Encourage the sincere brethren a [[Galle, Ceylon|Galles]] to persevere in their work of education. Some cheering words from you will give them heart. Telegraph to [[Nicolas Dias]] Inspector of Police Galle that you a member of the [[Council of the T. S.]] are coming (the date and name of steamer given) and I will cause H. P. B. to do the same to ''another'' person. Think
 
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'''NOTES:'''
* "...our friends in Europe, etc." [[A. P. Sinnett|Mr. Sinnett]] was about to depart for London in March 1881, where he published his first book ''[[The Occult World]]''.
* Galles, now spelled Galle, is a city and district in southwest Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
 
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== Page 3 transcription, image, and notes ==
 
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on the way of your true friend.
 
K. H. and ___.
 
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* [[Djual Khul]], [[Koot Hoomi]]'s [[chela]], may have been implied in the signature line.
 
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== Context and background ==
 
 
== Physical description of letter ==
 
 
== Current location of letter ==
 
The letter is in Folio 3 at the British Library.
 
 
== Publication history ==
 
This letter is presented as number 107 in the first three editions of The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett transcribed and compiled by A. T. Barker.
 
 
== Commentary of Joy Mills ==
 
Joy Mills discussed Letter No. 16 on pages 52-54 of ''Reflections on an Ageless Wisdom.''
 
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Here we could quote Joy Mills' text if we have permission.
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Mills, Joy. ''Reflections on an Ageless Wisdom.'' Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 2010.
 
 
== Commentary of Virginia Hanson and George Linton ==
 
Page 58..........
 
Hanson, Virginia, and George Linton. Readers Guide to the Mahatma Letters. Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House,
 
== Commentary of Geoffrey Barborka ==
 
 
== Context from ''Old Diary Leaves'' by H. S. Olcott ==
 
== Context from ''Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett'' ==
 
== Context from A. P. Sinnett's ''Autobiography'' ==
 
== Additional resources ==

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