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| author = Blavatsky H. P. | | author = Blavatsky H. P. | ||
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| source title = Spiritualist | | source title = London Spiritualist | ||
| source details = July 11, 1879 | | source details = No. 359, July 11, 1879, p. 24 | ||
| publication date = 1879-07-11 | | publication date = 1879-07-11 | ||
| original date = 1879-06-12 | | original date = 1879-06-12 | ||
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... | {{Style S-Small capitals| Sir}},—Be so kind as to make room in your next issue for this indignant protest of mine. Speaking of me in your leading article of May 23rd, and entitled “Theosophic Thaumaturgy,” I am mentioned as the “Countess” Blavatsky. Allow me to state, once for ever, that such is not my title., nor can I concede the right to include in the long list of vices I may be possibly endowed with that of a ''parvenu’s ''vanity. My family, on both sides, is quite ancient enough and noble enough to have transmitted to me too much pride to leave room for any petty feeling of vanity. I had to protest against this title while I was in America; have protested against it at another time in the ''Revue Spirite ''of Paris; and have just published in the ''Bombay Gazette ''of' May 13th a third protest, stating that, for reasons sufficiently specified, and not wholly disconnected with American citizenship, my name is simply | ||
{{Style P-Signature in capitals| H. P. Blavatsky}}. | |||
Bombay, June 12th. | |||
[The expression “Countess Blavatsky” was taken from the Indian newspapers.— {{Style S-Small capitals| Ed}}. | |||
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london_spiritualist_n.359_1879-07-11.pdf|page=14|London Spiritualist, No. 359, July 11, 1879, p. 24 | |||
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