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  | volume      = 1

  | volume      = 1

  | pages        = 247-249

  | pages        = 247-249

  | publications = The World , New York, May 6, 1877 <ref>{{HPB-CW-comment|[Also published in the New York Sun, under the title “Various Slanders Refuted,” as appears from H.P.B.’s Scrapbook, Vol. IV, p. 61.—Compiler.]}}</ref>

  | publications = The World , New York, May 6, 1877 <ref>{{HPB-CW-comment|[Also published in the New York Sun, under the title “Various Slanders Refuted,” as appears from H.P.B.’s {{SB-page|v=4|p=61|text=Scrapbook, Vol. IV, p. 61.}}—Compiler.]}}</ref>

  | scrapbook    = 4:61

  | scrapbook    = 4:61

  | previous    = Blavatsky H.P. - To the Public

  | previous    = Blavatsky H.P. - To the Public

Of Wong Chin Foo’s merits or shortcomings I know nothing except that since his arrival his conversation and behavior have impressed me favorably. He appears to me a very earnest and enthusiastic student. However, he is a man, and is able to take care of himself, although, like me, a foreigner. But I wish to say for myself just this: that I defy any person in America to come forward and prove a single charge against my honor. I invite everyone possessed of such proofs as will vindicate them in a court of justice to publish them over their own signatures in the newspapers. I will furnish to everyone a list of my several residences, and contribute towards paying detectives to trace my every step. But I hereby give notice that if any more unverifiable slanders can be traced to responsible sources, I will invoke the protection of the law, which, on the theory of your national Constitution, was made for heathen as well as {{Page aside|249}} Christian denizens. And I further notify slanderers of a speculative turn that no blackmail is paid at No. 302 West Forty-seventh Street.

Of Wong Chin Foo’s merits or shortcomings I know nothing except that since his arrival his conversation and behavior have impressed me favorably. He appears to me a very earnest and enthusiastic student. However, he is a man, and is able to take care of himself, although, like me, a foreigner. But I wish to say for myself just this: that I defy any person in America to come forward and prove a single charge against my honor. I invite everyone possessed of such proofs as will vindicate them in a court of justice to publish them over their own signatures in the newspapers. I will furnish to everyone a list of my several residences, and contribute towards paying detectives to trace my every step. But I hereby give notice that if any more unverifiable slanders can be traced to responsible sources, I will invoke the protection of the law, which, on the theory of your national Constitution, was made for heathen as well as {{Page aside|249}} Christian denizens. And I further notify slanderers of a speculative turn that no blackmail is paid at No. 302 West Forty-seventh Street.

{{Style P-Signature|Respectfully,

{{Style P-Signature|Respectfully,

H. P. BLAVATSKY. <ref> {{HPB-CW-comment|[In her Scrapbook, Vol. IV, p. 61, H.P.B. marked in red pencil most of this paragraph and also added the words:

H. P. BLAVATSKY. <ref> {{HPB-CW-comment|[In her {{SB-page|v=4|p=61|text=Scrapbook, Vol. IV, p. 61}}, H.P.B. marked in red pencil most of this paragraph and also added the words:

What I am

What I am

—Compiler.]}}</ref>

—Compiler.]}}</ref>