Readers Guide to The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett (book)

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Cover of the 1972 edition.

The Readers Guide to The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett was compiled by George Linton of Portland, Oregon, and Virginia Hanson, who was a staff member of the Theosophical Society in America.

This volume is highly useful in the study of The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett. It provides background and context, and a description of the physical appearance of each letter. The arrangement corresponds to the numbering scheme that was devised by A. Trevor Barker.

Book review in The American Theosophist July/August 1990.

Editions

The Readers Guide was first published by the Theosophical Publishing House in January 1972, containing 308 pages.

A revised and enlarged second edition of 430 pages was published in 1988 with some changes in the chronological arrangement of the letters. This edition served as a basis for the fourth edition of The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, which presents the letters in chronological sequence.