Theos-Talk Archives (April 2004 Message tt00244)

Gregory,

Thanks for your posting at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theos-talk/message/15942

In two previous postings to Theos-Talk, I answered
some of Frank Reitemeyer's comments and questions
about the new volume of HPB's Collected Letters.
I give excepts below:

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In the newly published volume I from Wheaton of
HPB's Collected Letters, you will see every single
letter from the BdZ collection for the years covered
in that volume (1861-1879).

In other words, Dr. Algeo has published in the
Vol. I collection now available from TPH, Wheaton, Illinois,
every HPB letter (1861-Jan. 14, 1879) in the BdeZ collection. . . .

The fact is that in the published Volume I of HPB's
Collected Letters none of HPB's comments have
been deleted. From day one in Dr. Algeo's correspondence
with me, he was always insistent that nothing be
deleted from HPB's letters and that HPB's language
SHOULD NOT be edited.

Please contact Dara Eklund. She can confirm what I
write.

Let your anonymous source show us in black and white
where some of HPB's comments in her letters have been
deleted or significantly altered in the published volume
edited by Dr. Algeo.
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Gregory, you wrote:

"I know the material that John felt might be censored."

If you could give us specifics of what John felt might
be censored, then any Theos-Talk reader who has a copy
of the new Volume I can check and see if those passages
have been censored or not.

I believe anyone can still purchase a microfiche of John's dissertation

[The letters of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky 1862 - 1882 by Alfred John Cooper
Thesis (Ph. D.), School of Studies in Religion, Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney, 1998.]

from the University of Sydney.

With that microfiche in hand, one can COMPARE the text of HPB's letters
with the text in:

The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky, Volume 1, 1861-1879
Edited by John Algeo
http://questbooks.net/title.cfm?bookid=497

Daniel
http://hpb.cc
http://theosophy.info





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