Plan" and on
April 18th, 1920 reached Australia whence they travelled to New Zealand in
1922-3, not knowing there was already a believer there (Margaret
Stevenson). With their arrival in Auckland, the Cause grew in that country
and when Hyde Dunn left to return to Australia, Clara remained for a time
to organise a study group in New Zealand.

Known affectionately among Baha'is as "Mother" and "Father" Dunn, they
carried the Message of Baha'u'llah from New South Wales to Victoria, South
Australia, Tasmania, across the desert to Perth and to tropical Queensland
and became the spiritual parents of Australia. After "Mother" Dunn
returned from a lone pilgrimage to the Holy Land, "Father" was elected a
member of the first National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of
Australia and New Zealand in 1934. After his passing on February 17th,
1941, "Mother" Dunn's dedication to the Baha'i Faith continued unabated
and in 1952 she was elevated to the station of Hand of the Cause of God by
Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Baha'i Faith: "Father" Dunn was
subsequently elevated to the same station posthumously.

Despite her advanced years, "Mother" Dunn returned to New Zealand in 1957
as representative of the Guardian at the formation of the first National
Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of New Zealand. In March, 1958, at the
request of the Guardian, she placed plaster from the Castle of Mah-Ku in
the foundations of the Australasian Baha'i House of Worship in Sydney
during the Australian Inter-Continental Conference. Until her passing to
the Abha Kingdom in 1960 at the age of 91 years, "Mother" Dunn retained
her memory of many Baha'i prayers and was reciting these at the time of
her death.

Note 3. (Letter No. 2)

The Blundell family: Mrs Sarah Blundell was born at Burwell,
Cambridgeshire, England in 1850, a year sacred in Baha'i history as that
of the Bab's martyrdom, and was destined to become one of the pioneers of
the Baha'i Cause in New Zealand. She received her early religious training
from her "Non-Conformist" father, a man whose strong convictions led him
to withdraw his seven year old daughter from religious instruction classes
at her boarding school. The feeling of isolation which followed caused her
to think for herself and she had the rare distinction of being one of the
first women to enter the Cambridge University Examinations in an age
prejudiced against the education of women.

In 1886, with her husband