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April 2nd or 9th (Tuesday)—Most likely dates when H.P.B. suddenly loses consciousness and does not regain it until five days later. Col. Olcott and his sister, Belle Mitchell, are with her. The Master telegraphs to Col. Olcott from Bombay, not to fear, as H.P.B. will be all right (Lucifer, XV, Jan. 1895, p. 364; Path, IX, Meh., 1895; ZhBH., p. 15).
April 2nd or 9th (Tuesday)—Most likely dates when H.P.B. suddenly loses consciousness and does not regain it until five days later. Col. Olcott and his sister, Belle Mitchell, are with her. The Master telegraphs to Col. Olcott from Bombay, not to fear, as H.P.B. will be all right (Lucifer, XV, Jan. 1895, p. 364; Path, IX, Meh., 1895; ZhBH., p. 15).
April 5—Thomas Alva Edison sends in his signed application for Fellowship in the T.S. (ODL, I, 466; Diaries).
April 17—H.P.B., Col. Olcott and Sotheran discuss with some Freemasons about constituting the Society as a Masonic body, with Rituals and Degrees (Ransom, 103; ODL, I, 468).
April—Col. Olcott starts correspondence with High-Priest Sumangala in Ceylon (Ransom, 106).
May 3—Col. Olcott wrote his first Circular explaining the origin and plan of the T.S., etc. A packet of these is given to Dr. H. J. Billing to take to London, and another to Countess Lydia A. Pashkoff, to be taken to Japan. Objects are stated in their early form; Brotherhood of Humanity used for the first time (GB, 26; Ransom, 104; Diaries, ODL, I, 400).
May 3—First issue of Sotheran’s short lived Echo (New York) is published (Diaries).
May 16—The Founders are directed to make ready for eventual departure for India (Ransom, 106).
May 22—Letter from A. Gustam, Record. Sec’y of T.S., “To the Chiefs of the Arya Samaja,” advising them that the Council of the T.S. has accepted the proposal of the Samaja to unite with them. T.S. alters its own title to: “The Theosophical Society of the Arya Samaja of India.” (Ransom, 105-06; ODL, I, 397).
May 25—Divorce between H.P.B. and Betanelly is granted; he had sued for divorce three years after marriage on grounds of desertion; summonses were served upon H.P.B. in New York; Wm. Q. Judge acted as her counsel (ODL, I, 57).
May 27—Italian celebration in New York; unveiling of Mazzini’s bust in Central Park; banquet at Lion Park; the Founders present (Diaries).
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May—Council of T.S. decides to restore initiation fees and to send them to the Arya Samaja (Ransom, 106).
June 4—H.P.B. spends day at Hoboken, N. J., in company with Belle Mitchell and Wimbridge (Diaries).
June 16—Col. Olcott goes to Albany, N. Y. (Diaries).
June 16—H.P.B. goes to visit Belle Mitchell, returning home June 22 (Diaries).
June 24—H.P.B. takes night boat to Troy, N. Y.; goes next day to Albany, N. Y. (Diaries).
June 26—H.P.B. and Col. Olcott take night boat to New York, down the Hudson River (Diaries).
June 27—First meeting held by the British Theosophical Society, at 38, Great Russell St., London; Cobb represents Col. Olcott; С. C. Massey chosen President; Miss Kislingbury, Secretary (ED, 11; Ransom, 106-07; Hist. Retr., 11; ODL, I, 398, 473 et seq.).
June 28—H.P.B. interviewed by the New York Star, on her forthcoming naturalization.
June 30—Gen. Abner Doubleday joins the T.S. (Ransom, 106).
July 8—H.P.B. is naturalized (HPBSp., I, 114; ODL, I, 473; Ransom, 108). Col. Olcott leaves for Albany on a mutual business venture with Hartmann.
July 10—Col. Olcott is back in New York (HPBSp., I, 115).
July 13—H.P.B., Col. Olcott and Wimbridge go to East Hampton, Long Island; stop at Capt. Em. Gardiner’s Hotel (ODL, I, 454; Diaries).
July—A. Gustam resigns as Record. Sec’y; Wm. Q. Judge fills the vacancy (Ransom, 108).
August 5—Most likely time when the Founders came back from East Hampton to New York by train (HPBSp., I, 116).
August (early)—The Rules of the Arya Samaja arrive, and prove to be disappointing. The T.S. resumes its original status (ODL, I, 398; Ransom, 108: HPBSp., I, 116).
August 6—Col. Olcott goes to Albany again (HPBSp., I, 116).
August 27—Meeting of the T.S. in connection with powers delegated to Col. Olcott (Hist. Retr., 19).
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September 11—E. Wimbridge prepares H.P.B.’s portrait for engraving (HPBSp., I, 117). Most likely the one which was published in the 5th thousand of Isis Unveiled.
September 16—Prince Emil von Sayn-Wittgenstein dies (Diaries).
October 9—O’Donavan works on a bronze plaque of H.P.B.; continues on the 10th and 11th (HPBSp., I, 118: ODL, I, frontispiece).
October 21—Col. Olcott returns from a trip to Philadelphia (HPBSp., I, 126).
October 22—Orders received from Serapis, through Sahib, “to complete all by the first days of December.” (HPBSp., I. 126; Ransom, 108).
October 30—Col. Olcott goes again to Philadelphia (HPBSp., I, 1301. Comes back on Nov. 2 (ditto, 135).
November 14—Master M. conveys orders from Serapis; the roundel's have to go the latest between Dec. 15 and 20 (HPBSp., I, 140).
November 20—Vedic ceremony of casting the ashes of Baron de Palm into the sea; this was done in the New York Bay, at 7:45 p.m., an Adept being present (HPBSp., I, 141).
November 21—Orders received to sail Dec. 7 or 17, and to pack up at once (HPBSp., I, 141).
November 25—Miss Rosa Bates leaves for England to await there the arrival of the Founders; two of H.P.B.’s trunks go with her to Liverpool (Ransom, 109; Vania, 40; HPBSp., I. 142-43).
November 28—Col. Olcott leaves for Fall River (HPBSp., I, 143). Returns Dec. 1st, via Providence (ditto, 146).
December 1—Orders received to sell furniture, etc., before 12th (HPBSp., I, 146).
December 2—Col. Olcott goes for the last time to Philadelphia (HPBSp., I, 147).
December 3—Col. Olcott goes to Washington, D.C. (ditto. 148).
December 9—H.P.B. goes early in the morning to meet an Adept at the “Battery,” a point in New York harbor (HPBSp., I, 153).
December 9—Approximate date on which the auction was held in H.P.B.’s apartment (HPBSp., I, 153).
December 9—Col. Olcott returns home (HPBSp., I, 154).
December 12—Col. Olcott goes to Orange to see his sister (HPBSp., I, 155).
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December 13—Col. Olcott goes to Menlo Park, to see Edison about phonograph (HPBSp., I, 156).
December 13—Col. Olcott receives from the President of U.S.A, an autographed letter of recommendation to all U.S. Ministers and Consuls abroad, and a diplomatic passport (ODL, I, 479; HPBSp., I, 156).
December 13—Orders seem to have been received at first to sail from Philadelphia, Penna., but this is evidently not carried out (HPBSp., I, 156).
December 17—Col. Olcott buys three tickets on the British steamer SS Canada. The Founders and Wimbridge go on board and spend the night there. Captain’s name is Sumner (HPBSp., I, 159; Ransom, 109).
December 18—Steamer leaves harbor of New York at 2:30 p.m.; then drops anchor off Coney Island waiting for tide (HPBSp., I, 159-60).
December 19—Pilot took steamer across the Sandy Hook bar at about 12:30 p.m. (HPBSp., I, 160; ODL, II, 1).
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Autobiogr.—An Autobiography of A. P. Sinnett, dated June 3rd, 1912, with additions dated May, 1916, and Jan. 2, 1920, which exists in the form of a typewritten MS. in the Archives of the Mahatma Letters Trust in London.
Corson—Some Unpublished Letters of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. With an Introduction and Commentary by Eugene Rollin Corson, B.S., M.D. London: Rider & Co. (1929). 255 pp., facs. and ill.
Diaries—Col. Henry Steel Olcott’s Diaries in the Adyar Archives.
ED—The Early Days of Theosophy in Europe, by A. P. Sinnett. London: Theos. Publ. House, 1922. 126 pp.
GB—The Golden Book of The Theosophical Society. Ed. by C. Jinarajadasa. Adyar: Theos. Publ. House, 1925. xviii, 421 pp., ill.
Hints—Hints on Esoteric Theosophy. Issued under the Authority of The Theosophical Society in 1882. Publ. anonymously, but actually written by Allan O. Hume. Nos. 1 and 2.
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Hist. Retr.—A Historical Retrospect of The Theosophical Society, 1875-1896, by Col. H. S. Olcott. Madras. 1896.
HPBSp.—H.P.B. Speaks. Edited by C. Jinarajadasa. Adyar, Madras, India: The Theos. Publ. House; Vol. I, 1950; Vol. II, 1951.
LMW—Letters from, the Masters of the Wisdom. Transcribed and Annotated by C. Jinarajadasa. With a Foreword by Annie Besant. 1st Series, Adyar, Madras: Theos. Publ. House, 1919. 124 pp.; 2nd ed., 1923; 3rd ed., 1945; 4th ed., with new and additional Letters (1870-1900), 1948. viii, 220 pp. 11nd Series, Adyar, Theos. Publ. House, 1925; and Chicago: Theos. Press, 1926.
Lucifer—London, 1887, etc.
ML—The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett (from the Mahatmas M. and K. H.). Transcribed, Compiled and with an Introd, by A. T. Barker. London: T. Fisher Unwin, December, 1923; New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1923. xxxv, 492 pp.; 2nd rev. ed., London: Rider & Co., 1926; 8th impression, Rider & Co., 1948 ; 3rd and rev. ed. Edited by Christmas Humphreys and Elsie Benjamin. Adyar, Madras: The Theos. Publ. House, 1962. xliii, 524 pp. New Index.
MPI—A Modern Priestess of Isis. Abridged and Translated on behalf of the Society for Psychical Research from the Russian of Vsevolod S. Soloviov, by Walter Leaf, Litt. D., with Appendices. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., and New York: 15 East 16th St., 1895.
MPI-R—The original Russian work (as above), entitled Sovremennaya zhritza Isidi, by V. S. Soloviov. St. Petersburg, 1893; 2nd. ed., N. F. Mertz, 1904. It contains 342 pp. and is somewhat more complete than the English transl. Originally, this material appeared in the Russkiy Vestnik (Russian Messenger), Vols. 218-220, 222-223, between Feb. and Dec., 1892.
NCM—Nineteenth Century Miracles, by Emma Hardinge-Britten. Manchester, 1883.
ODL—Old Diary Leaves, by Col. Henry Steel Olcott. 1st Series. New- York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1895, vii, 491 pp., ill.
Path—The Path, Publ. and ed. at New York by Wm. Q. Judge. Vol. I—April, 1886, etc.
POW—People from the Other World, by H. S. Olcott. Hartford, Conn.: American Publ. Co., 1875. 492 pp.
Ransom—A Short History of The Theosophical Society. Compiled by Josephine Ransom. With a Preface by G. S. Arundale. Adyar, Madras: Theos. Publ. House, 1938. xii, 591 pp.
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RO—Russkoye Obozreniye (Russian Review), Moscow Monthly.
Scrapbook—H.P.B.’s Scrapbooks in the Adyar Archives.
Spir. Sc.—Spiritual Scientist publ. at Boston, Mass.
Theos.—The Theosophist. Founded by H.P.B. and Col. H. S. Olcott in October, 1879. In progress.
Vania—Madame H. P. Blavatsky, Her Occult Phenomena and the Society for Psychical Research, by K. F. Vania. Bombay: Sat Publ. Co., 1951. xiv, 488 pp.
Word—The Word. Monthly ed. by H. W. Percival. New York: The Theos. Publ. House, Vols. I-XXV, Oct., 1904-Sept., 1917.
ZhBH—Biographical Sketch of H.P.B.’s life and work, by her sister Vera Petrovna de Zhelihovsky, appended to the Russian edition of H.P.B.’s Enigmatical Tribes of the Blue Hills and the Durbar in Lahore, publ. by V. I. Gubinsky, St. Petersburg, 1893. Sketch covers 56 pp. An Engl, transl. by Mrs. Kirk and Mrs. Lieven appeared in The London Forum (incorp. The Occult Review), Vols. LX, LXI, LXII, 1935.
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