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{{Style S-Small capitals|Mr. Editor}}—I have been pained by reading in your
valuable paper the attacks made upon a lady, a stranger in our country, whom
I know to be estimable and a sincere, self-sacrificing Spiritualist. I feel
the more mortified, because when a stranger in this lady’s native land, and
because I was a stranger, I received many attentions, many and marked
civilities—to which I was not otherwise entitled. Indeed, in every quarter of
the globe, in Europe, Asia, Africa, where it has been my good fortune to
spend a number of years, I had never any cause to complain of a lack of
civility. I have trusted myself alone for days with the ignorant and rude (in
appearance) people of the Caucasus; with an Arab in the Atlas mountains; with
Tartars, and Turks, and Hindoos, and negroes, in other regions, yet I cannot
but commend their manly, gentle, hospitable bearing, which puts to shame the
boasted civilization of the nineteenth century in these United States.
 
Madam Blavatsky, to whom I refer above, is a grand-daughter of Lady
Fadeyeff, (or Fadeeiv,) the Princess Dolgorouky, a woman of great erudition,
an archæologist and geologist of note. When she passed away, her collection
of antiquities, of relics, of minerals, or articles of ''virtu'', was so vast
that few palaces could have contained them, and they were consequently
presented to the government. Of Madame B. herself, I know from the Governor
(Baron Nicolaÿ) of Tiflis, that she is the widow of the late Governor of
Erivan, and that she had the distinguished friendship of such persons as the
Prince and Princess Woronzoff, Prince Kottubiz, and many other notables whom
I had the pleasure of knowing in Southern Russia and Circassia.
 
Now, because this noble, generous-hearted woman is a member of the Lodge of
Luxor, and pretends to some occult knowledge, and to a power we do not
possess, must that let loose upon her the tongue and the pen of ribaldry? As
a lady, as a stranger in our midst, (she is not a public medium nor an
adventuress,) is she not entitled strictly to every possible mark of respect;
indeed, to all the kindness and courtesies invariably accorded to Americans
when visiting the country of her nativity?
 
With her claim to superior insight into the occult sciences I have nothing to
do; but should deem it an expression of unwarranted impertinence and conceit
were I to call it in question. When, moreover, her wonderful powers as an
occultist—a superior scientist we may say—are endorsed by such ''savans'' and
occultists as Geo. Henry Felt, Mr. Sotheron, and Col. Olcott, it ill becomes
any gentleman to gainsay them.
 
{{Style P-Signature in capitals|G. L. Ditson}}




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