Published serially in the Los Angeles Times in 1905, Kumbum, the Tibetan Lama presents itself as a lost work by David Patterson Hatch (1846-1912), the California attorney, judge and occultist who was a member, or perhaps the leader, of a group of California occultists known by their use of an envelope-shaped sigil: a group the members of which included the jurist William Atwood Cheney (1846-1925) and Annie Elizabeth Skinner Cheney (1847-1915)...