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  | title = A Letter from “Honesty”

  | title = A Letter from “Honesty”

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  | source details = Jan. 30, 1875, p. 2

  | source details = Jan. 30, 1875, p. 2

  | publication date = 1875-01-30

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{{Style P-HPB SB. Title|A Letter from “Honesty”<ref>The real name of the writer of the above accompanies the article. - Ed[itor] B[anner] of L[ight] {{Style S-HPB SB. HPB note|(Leslie)}}</ref>}}

{{Style P-HPB SB. Title|A Letter from “Honesty”*}}

Editor Banner of Light:

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I am very sorry you hesitate to believe the narrative of Katie King relating to her connections with the Holmes’ mediums. Your doubts arise from a want of knowledge of all the facts. No one, I suppose, questions the purity of your motives; but your hesitancy to denounce that heartless swindle has a tendency to produce a wrong impression in the minds of the readers of the Banner, That the supposed manifestations of materialized spirits, given through Mr. and Mrs. Holmes, were fraudulent, not one Spiritualist or other person here, who has any sense, or whose opinion is to be regarded as of the smallest value, doubts. The reason is, that the people here were familiar with those manifestations given bv the lady, whom the mediums represented to be Katie King, a materialized spirit; and as soon as the cheat was discovered, and they saw the real flesh and blood Katie, there was no trouble in recognizing her as being the same person they had so often seen in the cabinet.

I am very sorry you hesitate to believe the narrative of Katie King relating to her connections with the Holmes’ mediums. Your doubts arise from a want of knowledge of all the facts. No one, I suppose, questions the purity of your motives; but your hesitancy to denounce that heartless swindle has a tendency to produce a wrong impression in the minds of the readers of the Banner, That the supposed manifestations of materialized spirits, given through Mr. and Mrs. Holmes, were fraudulent, not one Spiritualist or other person here, who has any sense, or whose opinion is to be regarded as of the smallest value, doubts. The reason is, that the people here were familiar with those manifestations given bv the lady, whom the mediums represented to be Katie King, a materialized spirit; and as soon as the cheat was discovered, and they saw the real flesh and blood Katie, there was no trouble in recognizing her as being the same person they had so often seen in the cabinet.

Katie’s statement, to say the very least, throws a doubt on the genuineness of these manifestations, and that alone ought to be sufficient to cause honest investigators to reject them. Those who are earnestly seeking after truth, cannot afford to waste time doubtful things.

Katie’s statement, to say the very least, throws a doubt on the genuineness of these manifestations, and that alone ought to be sufficient to cause honest investigators to reject them. Those who are earnestly seeking after truth, cannot afford to waste time doubtful things.

{{Style P-Signature|Honesty.

{{Style P-Signature in capitals|Honesty.}}

 

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  | source title = Banner of Light, The

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  | source details = Jan. 30, 1875, p. 2

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{{Style P-Signature|Dr. G. Bloede.

{{Style P-Signature|Dr. G. Bloede.

''Brooklyn, N.Y., Jan. 5th,'' 1875. {{Style S-HPB SB. HPB note|Of course, dear doctor.}}}}

''Brooklyn, N.Y., Jan. 5th,'' 1875. {{Style S-HPB SB. HPB note|<u>Of course</u>, dear doctor.}}}}

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  | title = Aт Earnest Word to Robert Dale Owen

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  | source title = Banner of Light, The

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  | source title = Banner of Light, The

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  | source details = Boston, Saturday, January 30, 1875, p. 4

  | publication date = 1875-01-30

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  | original date = 1874-01-12

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Yours faithfully,

Yours faithfully,

 

{{Style P-Signature in capitals|Thomas Blyton.}}

{{Style P-Signature|Thomas Blyton.

''12 High street, Bow,''

''12 High street, Bow,''

''London, E., Jan. 12th,'' 1874.}}

''London, E., Jan. 12th,'' 1874.

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To make assurance doubly sure, on seeing the paragraph in the New York Graphic, we at once wrote for information to a gentleman of high scientific authority, resident in London, and here is his reply, under date of Jan. 9th, 1873: ‘‘The occurrence referred to by Mr. W. Hipp tool place three or four years ago, when Miss Cook was quite a child, and when the phenomena, were only just beginning to attract attention outside her own family. Almost any one was then invited to attend their séances, as Miss Cook and her parents knew nothing of Spiritualism, and were quite ignorant of ''conditions''. At the séance at which Hipp was present there was no holding of hands, and the company were all seated round the table, laughing and talking. Hipp had made himself very disagreeable for some time by throwing his hands about, trying to grasp things as they moved, and playing practical jokes. Miss Cook had a flower in the bosom of her dress, and all at once she felt a man’s hand moving about as if to grasp the {{Style S-HPB SB. Continued on|}}

To make assurance doubly sure, on seeing the paragraph in the New York Graphic, we at once wrote for information to a gentleman of high scientific authority, resident in London, and here is his reply, under date of Jan. 9th, 1873: ‘‘The occurrence referred to by Mr. W. Hipp tool place three or four years ago, when Miss Cook was quite a child, and when the phenomena, were only just beginning to attract attention outside her own family. Almost any one was then invited to attend their séances, as Miss Cook and her parents knew nothing of Spiritualism, and were quite ignorant of ''conditions''. At the séance at which Hipp was present there was no holding of hands, and the company were all seated round the table, laughing and talking. Hipp had made himself very disagreeable for some time by throwing his hands about, trying to grasp things as they moved, and playing practical jokes. Miss Cook had a flower in the bosom of her dress, and all at once she felt a man’s hand moving about as if to grasp the {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on}}

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