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* | * '''Baboo''' was used in British India for an Indian clerk or a semi-literate native. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babu_(title) Babu (title) in Wikipedia)]. | ||
* | * '''apps and obligs''' refers to applications and obligations in civil law. | ||
* | * '''Zenana''' is the part of the house reserved for the women. "Apparently refers to a proposal to have Indian women form TS branches.<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), 82.</ref> | ||
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* | * '''chits''' can refer to notes and letters, or, more commonly, to IOUs or accounts stating an amount due. | ||
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The original is in the British Library, Folio 3. According to [[George Linton]] and [[Virginia Hanson]], the letter was written: | |||
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In red ink on a single folded sheet of rippled paper, in medium sized script, more carefully done than some of the other letters. On the back, in different script, appears: "A. P. Sinnett Sahib."<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), 82.</ref> | |||
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Revision as of 03:07, 16 August 2012
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| Written by: | Morya |
| Received by: | A. P. Sinnett |
| Sent via: | unknown |
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| Written on: | unknown |
| Received on: | November 1881 See below. |
| Other dates: | none |
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| Sent from: | unknown |
| Received at: | Allahabad, India |
| Via: | none |
This is Letter No. 114 in Barker numbering. See below for Context and background.
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Received about February, 1882, Allahabad. The letter forwarded is from a Baboo — your nausea-inspiring Bengalee, from whom, I ask you, for K.H.'s sake — to conceal the feeling of queasiness that may overcome you at his sight — if he comes. Read it with attention. The lines underlined contain the germ in them of the greatest reform, the most beneficent results obtained by the Theosophical movement. Were our friend of Simla less cantankerous, I might have tried to influence him to draft out special rules and a distinct pledge with apps and obligs for the Zenana women of India. Profit by the suggestion and see whether you can prevail upon him to do so. Write to him without delay to Bombay to come and meet |
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the old woman at your house and then pass him on to his countryman and Brother-Fellow the "Prayag" Babu — the young leach of your Society. Then telegraph to her to Meerut to come using my name — otherwise she will not. I already answered him in her name. Do not feel surprised, for everything I have a reason of mine, as you may learn some years hence. And why should you be so anxious to see my chits to other people? Have you not sufficient trouble to make out my letters addressed to yourself? |
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Context and background
Physical description of letter
The original is in the British Library, Folio 3. According to George Linton and Virginia Hanson, the letter was written:
In red ink on a single folded sheet of rippled paper, in medium sized script, more carefully done than some of the other letters. On the back, in different script, appears: "A. P. Sinnett Sahib."[2]
Publication history
Commentary about this letter
Notes
- ↑ George E. Linton and Virginia Hanson, eds., Readers Guide to The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett (Adyar, Chennai, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1972), 82.
- ↑ George E. Linton and Virginia Hanson, eds., Readers Guide to The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett (Adyar, Chennai, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1972), 82.