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collect a public subscription in aid of a charitable object. In 1877 he was one of an International Committee chosen by the Italian residents of New York to erect a monument to Mazzini, in Central Park. The same year he was Hon. Secretary of a National Committee, one member of which was the just elected President of the United States, General Garfield—formed to secure a worthy representation of American arts and industries at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1878. In the following year he left New York for India, and just before sailing received from the President and the Secretary of State (whose office corresponds with that held by Mr. Gladstone, in England) a diplomatic passport, such as is only issued to the most eminent American citizens, and circular autograph letters recommending him to the particular favour of all U.S. Ministers and Consuls, as a gentleman who had been requested to promote in every practicable and proper way the mutual commercial relations of the United States and India. And now if the enemies of the Theosophical Society can produce an “adventurer” with such a record and such testimonials of integrity and capacity, by all means let them name their man.
A Few of Col. Olcott's Testimonials
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Editor's notes
- ↑ A Few of Col. Olcott's Testimonials by unknown author, Supplement to The Theosophist, v. 2, No. 4, January, 1881, pp. 2-4
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Supplement to the Theosophist, v. 2, No. 4, January, 1881, pp. 2-4