https://theosophy.wiki/w-en/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=TestTheosophy Wiki - User contributions [en]2026-07-04T21:16:09ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.43.8https://theosophy.wiki/w-en/index.php?title=Mahatma_Letter_No._79&diff=35242Mahatma Letter No. 792018-01-18T16:51:48Z<p>Test: </p>
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| header1 = People involved |<br />
| writtenby = [[Koot Hoomi]]<br />
| receivedby = [[A. P. Sinnett]]<br />
| sentvia = probably [[Djual Khool]]<br />
| header2 = Dates<br />
| writtendate = unknown<br />
| receiveddate = August 1882 | otherdate = none<br />
| header3 = Places<br />
| sentfrom = unknown<br />
| receivedat = [[Simla, India]] <br />
| vialocation = none<br />
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'''This is Letter No. 116 in Barker numbering.''' See below for [[Mahatma Letter No. 79#Context and background|Context and background]].<br />
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== Envelope ???? ==<br />
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A. P. Sinnett.<br />
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'''NOTES:'''<br />
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== Page 1 transcription, image, and notes ==<br />
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My dear Friend,<br />
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I am tired and disgusted with all this wrangling to [[death]]. Please read this before giving it to [[Allan Octavian Hume|Mr. Hume]]. If, as a debt of gratitude, he would exact but a pound of flesh, I would have naught to say — but a pound of useless verbiage is indeed more than even I — can stand!<br />
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Yours ever,<br />
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[[Koot Hoomi|K. H.]]<br />
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'''NOTES:'''<br />
* '''A pound of flesh''' refers to Shakespeare's play ''The Merchant of Venice'', in which a lender insists on the harsh consequence of defaulting on a desperate bargain.<br />
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== Context and background ==<br />
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== Physical description of letter ==<br />
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The original is in the British Library, Folio 3. According to [[George Linton]] and [[Virginia Hanson]], the letter was written:<br />
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On the front of an envelope 4" X 5" <nowiki>[</nowiki>10.2 X 12.7 cm<nowiki>]</nowiki> to [[Alfred Percy Sinnett|''A. P. Sinnett'']], in blue pencil. The envelope may have enclosed a letter to [[Allan Octavian Hume|AOH]] which [[Koot Hoomi|KH]] asked APS to read before sending it on to him.<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), 134.</ref><br />
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== Publication history ==<br />
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