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== Physical description of letter ==
== Physical description of letter ==


 
The original letter in in Folio 1 at the British Library. According to [[George Linton]] and [[Virginia Hanson]]:
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ML-3C is on two small sheets of paper about 4" X 7" <nowiki>[</nowiki>10.2 x 17.8 cm<nowiki>]</nowiki>, in ink and script similar to parts of [[Mahatma Letter No. 3a|A]] & [[Mahatma Letter No. 3b|B]]. All three notes were received by [[A. P. Sinnett|APS]] on the same day.<ref>George E. Linton and Virginia Hanson, eds., ''Readers Guide to The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett'' (Adyar, Chennai, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1972), 39.</ref>
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== Publication history ==
== Publication history ==



Revision as of 06:09, 15 August 2012

Quick Facts
People involved
Written by: Koot Hoomi
Received by: A. P. Sinnett
Sent via: H. P. Blavatsky
Dates
Written on: unknown
Received on: October 20, 1880
Other dates: none
Places
Sent from: unknown
Received at: Simla, India
Via: none

This is Letter No. 3c in Barker numbering. See below for Context and background.

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Envelope

TEXT HERE

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NOTES:

Page 1 transcription, image, and notes

A few words more: why should you have felt disappointed at not receiving a direct reply to your last note? It was received in my room about half a minute after the currents for the production of the pillow dak had been set ready and in full play. And — unless I had assured you that a man of your disposition need have little fear of being "fooled" — there was no necessity for an answer. One favour I will certainly ask of you, and that is, that now that

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Page 2

you — the only party to whom anything was ever promised — are satisfied that you should endeavour to disabuse the mind of the amorous Major and show to him his great folly and injustice.

Yours faithfully,

Koot' Hoomi Lal Singh.

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NOTES:

  • "The amorous Major" may have been Philip D. Henderson, who rejected his membership in the TS after his certificate was produced by precipitation.

Context and background

Physical description of letter

The original letter in in Folio 1 at the British Library. According to George Linton and Virginia Hanson:

ML-3C is on two small sheets of paper about 4" X 7" [10.2 x 17.8 cm], in ink and script similar to parts of A & B. All three notes were received by APS on the same day.[1]

Publication history

Commentary about this letter

Notes

  1. George E. Linton and Virginia Hanson, eds., Readers Guide to The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett (Adyar, Chennai, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1972), 39.


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