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Miss Kislingbury – A New Organization in Albany, N.Y.
Our translator, Dr. G. L. Ditson, forwards us the following spicy letter concerning matters in the above named city, the visit of Miss Kislingbury, etc.:
To the Editor of the Banner of Light:
Miss Kislingbury, the estimable linguist and writer, and Secretary of the British National Association of Spiritualists, has honored me with a call on her way to Niagara Falls. Her health is quite good, though she seems somewhat wearied with much traveling. She has promised to spend a few days with us on her return eastward.
Miss Kislingbury will doubtless receive much kind attention from all Spiritualists of the regions she may visit while in this country, not only on account of the responsible position she holds at home, but for her culture, her sincerity, and those graces which go to make up the charm of an intelligent woman. Her graphic descriptions of visits to Mons. Leymarie in prison, to the lovely rustic home of the distinguished Miss Blackwell (whose sterling works it has always been my pleasure to notice in my “Reviews” for the Banner), to the chateau of Prince Wittgenstein, etc., have the glow of a veritable romance, and make us envy her good fortune. She might add, too, tales of sorrow that tinge the lives of some of the eminent of our faith besides Leymarie's. They have our love and reverence—they do not ask our sympathy.
Miss Kislingbury informs me that Mr. Colville is to visit the United States. From all that I have heard and read of him I believe there are few from over the water who should receive a more hearty welcome. He will undoubtedly give the most abundant satisfaction to all who may require his services. He, like Dr. Monck and Mrs. Cora L. V. Richmond, is one of the wonders of the age.
The Spiritualists of Albany meet this afternoon for a new organization. We have enough Spiritualists here to make a strong show, and talent enough to make a permanently effective movement that will tell upon the age. I will, with your permission, report progress from time to time.
Some exception has been taken to a recent communication in the Banner, in which it was stated that a hundred mediums would be sacrificed, if necessary, to establish some truth. Mediums are not any more willing to be sacrificed than other people; and if the spirits are so very willing thus to use them, they must be related to Artemus Ward, who was so generous with his first wife's relations.
Albany, N. Y., Sept. 30th, 1877.
<Untitled> ("Isis Uveiled," writen by Madame H. P. Blavatsky)
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Phoenix M`Carthy
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Editor's notes
- ↑ Miss Kislingbury – A New Organization in Albany, N.Y. by Ditson, G. L., Banner of Light, October 13, 1877
- ↑ "Isis Uveiled," writen by Madame H. P. Blavatsky by unknown author, Press, The, Tuesday, October 9, 1877. Under title "New Publications"
- ↑ Phoenix M`Carthy by unknown author, New York Herald, New York, Monday, October 15, 1877