Property:HPB SB item notes
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The notice gives the purchase price as 1,200 guineas. +
The notice records the return of H. S. Olcott and H. P. Blavatsky to Madras after a tour in the Nellore and Krishna districts. +
The notice reports his marriage to Miss Jessie Simpson of Greta Bank, Crosshill. +
The notice reports that H. P. Blavatsky wrote to Rugoonath Rao against child marriage and the enforced celibacy of Hindu widows. The clipped masthead prints only Sunday, June 11; the year is established by the adjacent dated 1882 material and the matching calendar, not by a visible year in this clipping. +
The notice states that The Thinker is not to be conducted by friends and well-wishers of The Philosophic Inquirer. +
The original title is not pasted and substituted with "The Witch of Endor". +
The pasted Poona dateline reads “29ht”, a printed source error, not handwriting. +
The postscript is dated May 8 and signed G. D.; the complete letter and postscript are pasted. +
The printed heading and continuation label are reproduced below. The newspaper repeats the number XXII, also printed in the preceding instalment. +
The printed heading and its continuation label are reproduced below; the corresponding English text is [[HPB-Caves-23|Letter XXIII]]. +
The printed heading repeats Letter XXI and marks this instalment as a continuation of No. 117. +
The printed masthead’s right edge is covered by the illustration. +
The printed superscript 5 after “Theosophist” has no corresponding note text in this clipping. +
The printed word “THE” is crossed out in the masthead. +
The report covers Olcott's Thursday-evening lecture at Pacheappa's Hall on India's Moral Death and Resurrection and announces another lecture for June 5. +
The report describes Pandit Govind Sahay’s lecture at Hari Gyan Mandir in Ajmer on the Theosophical Society and Swami Dayanand Saraswati. It ends on this scrapbook page in mid-sentence on printed p. 63 and resumes on scrapbook page 137 at printed p. 65; the entire intervening printed p. 64 is not mounted in the scrapbook. +
The report records the distribution of prizes at the Arya Samaj girls’ school on Sunday, April 16, to seventeen pupils examined in reading, writing and arithmetic. The exact day of the May issue has not been established. +
The report says that Olcott and Blavatsky convened a meeting at Nellore attended by educated Hindus and that about thirty attendees became Theosophists. The clipping is complete. +
The rest of the article is yet to be recovered. +
The rest of title is covered by оrnament +