on her way back to Australia.

Shoghi Effendi assures you of his prayers on behalf of your mother,
yourself and all the Australasian friends and his hopes that the proposed
Magazine may greatly help the spread of the Glad Tidings in Australia and
New Zealand.

With warmest greetings and best wishes,

Yours sincerely in the Master's service,
J. E. Esslemont

[From the Guardian:]

_My dear fellow-worker:_

_Your charming letter truly gladdened my heart. I will follow the
development of your magazine with keen interest and assure you of my
desire to help and promote its interests to the fullest possible extent. I
am enclosing the photographs of the shrine and gardens recently laid out
in the close neighbourhood of the Shrines of the Bab and 'Abdu'l-Baha. I
assure you of my love, appreciation and fervent prayers._

_Yours, _
_ Shoghi_

(5) May 28th, 1925

Allah-u-abha.

Dear Baha'i Sister,

Shoghi Effendi asks me to thank you on his behalf for your letter of 14th
May. He received the letter of Mrs. Amy Thornton all right. I remember
answering it for him some weeks ago, so you can set your mind at rest on
that score.

The recovery of your Baha'i ring and stones was very remarkable. It
reminds me of a somewhat similar occurrence in Bournemouth. One of our
Baha'i friends had her Baha'i ring stolen, and nothing was heard or seen
of it for some months. Mr King, another of our group, has an antique shop
in Bournemouth and one day his partner (a non-Baha'i) bought a ring from a
man who said it was his wife's, but as they had become very badly off she
wanted to sell it. When Mr King saw the ring he recognized it as a Baha'i
ring and knowing that this friend had lost her ring, he sent it to me. It
turned out to be her ring and she was delighted to recover it. The curious
thing is that out of the dozens of jewellers and antique shops in
Bournemouth to which the ring might have been taken for sale, it should be
taken to the one where there was a Baha'i who recognized it.

I hope that before you leave Scotland you may be able to go to Aberdeen
and see my home people. They would be delighted to see you. My father's
address is Fairford, Cults, (about 3 miles from Aberdeen, by car or
train). He is 86 years of age and rather frail. My sister looks after him.
My two married brothers are Peter Esslemont, 21, Louisville Avenue
(Business: John E. Esslemont, 16 King Street) and W.D.E., 12 Wellbrae
Terr., Mannofield. B