Theos-Talk Archives (October 2003 Message tt00155)

Hi,

Is there any original edition availeable? 

Erica



--- "Daniel H. Caldwell" <danielhcaldwell@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> In a letter dated March 30, 1928 and signed by THE
> THEOSOPHY COMPANY, the anonymous writer informed Dr.
> H.N. Stokes:
> 
> "The Theosophy Company is just bringing out an
> entirely new edition of *The Voice of the Silence.*
> .
> . .. Sometime ago the Theosophy Company came into
> possession of a copy of the original London edition
> of
> *The Voice of the Silence* with the typographical
> changes and corrections made by Mr. Judge in his own
> hand, and it is this text which is followed in the
> edition just being issued by the Theosophy Company.
> .
> . ." [quoted in O.E. LIBRARY CRITIC, July 1928.]
> 
> In a follow-up letter dated May 1, 1928, THE
> THEOSOPHY
> COMPANY again stated to Dr. Stokes the following:
> 
> "This new [TC 1928] edition . . . is set up
> *verbatim
> et literatim* from a copy of the original edition of
> *The Voice of the Silence* as corrected by Mr. Judge
> in his own handwriting. This copy we have in our
> possession. . . ." [quoted in O.E. LIBRARY CRITIC,
> July 1928.]
> 
> Another version to the above was mentioned a few
> years
> ago in "The Aquarian Theosophist":
> 
> "This change [in THE VOICE concerning the "thin
> oblong
> squares] FIRST occurred in the 1892 edition of the
> Voice issued by G.R.S. Mead and A. Besant. Hence it
> appears that WQJ based his 1893 edition on the
> Mead/Besant reprint rather than HPB's original. —
> EDS." [Caps added. See 
> <http://www.teosofia.com/Docs/vol-2-10.pdf> p. 2,
> footnote 1.] 
> 
> Further clarification is given below.
> 
> One ULT associate recently wrote:
> 
> ". . . both of those Stokes letters [cited above]
> are
> mistaken due to the erroneous info he received from
> Theosophy Company. At the time (1928) John Garrigues
> [of ULT](whose handwritten note appears on the
> inside
> front cover) did not realize that changes had
> ALREADY
> BEEN MADE in the edition Judge was marking up for
> publication."
> 
> Another writer also recently elaborated on the
> edition
> Judge marked up:
> 
> ". . . Judge did not use HPB's original edition for
> his own edition of the Voice, but used the already
> doctored 1892 edition which was probably altererd
> [sic]by Mead and Besant. . . . this has been
> verified
> because that 1892 copy with Judge's handwriting is
> in
> LA Lodge [of the United Lodge of Theosophists]. 
> . . . "
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> =====
> Daniel H. Caldwell
> BLAVATSKY STUDY CENTER/BLAVATSKY ARCHIVES
> http://blavatskyarchives.com/introduction.htm
> 
>
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> and 
> hears both sides he can hardly come to a correct
> decision."
> H.P. Blavatsky. The Theosophist, July, 1881, p. 2
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