ABSTRACT
On 11 January 1927 Mrs Besant presided over a meeting arranged to celebrate the anniversary of the foundation of the Order of the Star. Mrs Besant remained in California during nearly the whole spring to see the new enterprise through its early days, and, as usual, successfully. In the late Spring Mrs Besant left for England. At Whitsuntide and after she delivered a number of lectures, presiding over the Annual Conventions of the English and Scottish Theosophical Societies. In October Mrs Besant returned to India and at once resumed her various political and editorial tasks. She made a present of the Indian branch of the Theosophical Publishing House to the Indian Theosophical Society, and presented a pair of dhotis to each of the 114 men employed in the printing works forming part of the Society’s headquarters. Mrs Besant hardly ever dictated; what she wrote she wrote with her own hands, letters as well as literary work.
