Mahatma Letters Trust
The Mahatma Letters Trust is an English organization formed by Maud Hoffman to take over responsibility for publication and preservation of the correspondence from which The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett and the The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett were compiled.
History
Christmas Humphreys and Elsie Benjamin were asked by Miss Hoffman to become the first trustees. Two editions of the letters to Sinnett had already been published, and the new trustees took on the task of producing a new and improved third edition, published in 1962 by the Theosophical Publishing House in Adyar, Chennai, India. These editors carefully compared the original letters, and also appealed for and received suggestions for correction and improvement from the worldwide Theosophical movement. Significant assistance came from C. Jinarājadāsa, James Graham who collated and summarized the many suggestions sent in by students, and Boris de Zirkoff.
In 1983, Rex Dutta took over as chairman of the trust upon the death of Judge Humphreys.
Readers may like to know that accumulated bequests over the years have given the Mahatma Letters Trust a superb library of rare indeed books; available now to serious students at the premises of Alpha Books, 60, Langdon Park Road, Highgate, London N 6 (01-348-2831). Regular study classes are also held there. [1] </blockquote
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Notes
- ↑ "The Mahatma Letters Trust" The Eclectic Theosophist 77 (September-October, 1983): 10-11.