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{{Style P-Subtitle|EXCITEMENT IN ST. PETERSBURG.—A PROTEST BY THE HIGHEST NOBILITY OF THE EMPIRE.—THE SEVEREST REBUKE A SCIENTIFIC BODY EVER HAD.}}
{{Style P-Subtitle|EXCITEMENT IN ST. PETERSBURG.—A PROTEST BY THE HIGHEST NOBILITY OF THE EMPIRE.—THE SEVEREST REBUKE A SCIENTIFIC BODY EVER HAD.}}
{{HPB-CW-comment|view=center|[''Banner of Light'', Boston, Vol. XXXIX, June 24, 1876, p. 8]}}
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<center>Special Correspondence of the ''Banner of Light''.</center>
<center>Special Correspondence of the ''Banner of Light''.</center>
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{{Style P-Quote|{{HPB-CW-comment|“I have ever striven to be an honest man, and ''I never condescended to write an anonymous letter'', or to make charges sotto voce against anyone. What I say I can prove:* I sign my name. Sign yours!”}}}}
{{Style P-Quote|{{HPB-CW-comment|“I have ever striven to be an honest man, and ''I never condescended to write an anonymous letter'', or to make charges sotto voce against anyone. What I say I can prove:* I sign my name. Sign yours!”}}}}


{{HPB-CW-comment|H.P.B. pasted the cutting in her {{SB-page|v=1|p=164|text=Scrapbook, Vol. I, pp. 164-65}}, underlined as shown above, added an asterisk, and wrote in pen and ink the following remarks:]}}
{{HPB-CW-comment|H.P.B. pasted the cutting in her {{SB-page|v=1|p=164|text=''Scrapbook'', Vol. I, pp. 164-65}}, underlined as shown above, added an asterisk, and wrote in pen and ink the following remarks:]}}


Except in the case of anonymous and infamous letters sent to a poor lady at Geneva, traced to him (D. D. Home) and for which an English officer, a friend of Prince Wittgenstein went to flog him. His behaviour was so cowardly that the officer left in disgust, “without even whipping him a little” adds the Prince who wrote the facts to Col. Olcott.
Except in the case of anonymous and infamous letters sent to a poor lady at Geneva, traced to him (D. D. Home) and for which an English officer, a friend of Prince Wittgenstein went to flog him. His behaviour was so cowardly that the officer left in disgust, “without even whipping him a little” adds the Prince who wrote the facts to Col. Olcott.