velopment. He very kindly expressed his opinion thad I had al- 

 ready achieved some philanthropic work for the good of the world. 

 In this letter were also ansvvered some of the questions which I 

 had put in my first-mentioned letter, and an assurance was given 

 me that I was to receive assistance and advice when I should be 

 in need of it. 



I dare say it would be unnecessary for me to ask you to 

 inform the Mahatma of the devoted thankfulness which I feel 

 towards him for the great kindness shown to me, for the Master, 

 will know of my sentiments without my forming them into more 

 or less inadequate words. — I am, dear madame, in due respect, 

 yours faithfully Hübbe-Schleiden. 

 To Madame Blavatsky, Elberfeld, Platzhoflstrasse 12. 



Elberfeld, 9./11. 84. 

 Dear Sir, — In reply to your question about the letter from 

 Mahatma K. H., which I received in a railway carriage ot an ex- 

 press train while in motion, I beg to say that it appears to me 

 absolutely impossible that the letter could have been brought into 

 the train by any supposed agent of Madame Blavatsky's. It is 

 true we had not changed carriages since leaving Elberfeld, but 

 the letter did not at all fall out of the air, but was found behind 

 my back when I moved, and must, there fore, have been deposited 

 between my back and the cushion of the seat against which I 

 was lying. There was no possibility of getting there for any 

 matter in one of the three or four aggregate states known to our 

 Western science. Besides, Madame Blavatsky could have nothing 

 to do with this letter, which was a reply to questions which I 

 had written on Tuesday, the 2g lh July, and which left Elberfeld 

 on that or the following day for London, addressed to Madame 

 Blavatsky. Now, these questions could not have been delivered 

 in London betöre Thursday or Friday of that week, and a reply 



