Mahatma Letter No. 3b

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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:	a valley in Kashmir
Received at:	Simla, India
Via:	none

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

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My "Dear Brother,"

This brooch No. 2 — is placed in this very strange place simply to show to you how very easily a real phenomenon is produced and how still easier it is to suspect its genuineness. Make of it what you like even to classing me with confederates.

The difficulty you spoke of last night with respect to the interchange of our letters I will try to remove. One of our pupils will shortly visit Lahore and the N.W.P. and an address will be sent to you which you can always use; unless, indeed, you really would prefer corresponding through — pillows. Please to remark that the present is not dated from a "Lodge" but from a Kashmir valley.

Yours, more than ever,

Koot' Hoomi Lal Sing.

NOTES:

• N. W. P. refers to the North-Western Provinces, an administrative region in British India.

Reverse side, marked as envelope

A. P. Sinnett, Esq.
c/o Mrs. Sinnett

NOTES:

Physical description of letter

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

ML-3B is on a full-size sheet of white paper. The writing is in the same ink and as in ML-3A, the signature is in a different script and slightly darker ink. Part of it has a slight reddish tinge. The paper has been folded both ways so as to make a square and then folded twice diagonally. On one of the triangular folds is the following:

A. P. Sinnett, Esq.

c/o Mrs. Sinnett