Edmond W. Fern

According to Readers Guide to The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett:

Fern, Edmond, W., a young Englishman born in India. At the time the Letters were being written, he was apparently serving as some kind of secretary to AOH at Simla and may have been living in the Hume home. Apparently he was somewhat of a psychic and the Mahatmas considered that he might hav valuable potential for the transmission of messages, etc. He joined the TS and was placed on probation under the supervision of M. It appears that he failed to pass the probationary tests. ML index; LMW; D, p. 524.