ehalf and express to her my
warm approval of your suggestion which would safeguard her interests and
prove of some assistance to her....

Assuring you of my earnest prayers for your continued and unsparing
efforts for the promotion of the Cause you serve so well,

I am your grateful brother,
Shoghi

Letter of 16 July 1926

16 July 1926

Dear Mr. Simpson,

This is to acknowledge the receipt of your letter to Shoghi Effendi dated
June 20, 1926. He is very thankful for what you are trying to do for the
friends in Persia. I hope the efforts of the whole western friends
combined will alleviate this great burden which rests upon them, and at
least give them the peace and comfort which they have been for so long
desiring.

As to the translation or rather revision of the translation of the "Hidden
Words". A year ago, I believe, the American friends wrote to Shoghi
Effendi and asked him to do it. Complying with their wish he revised his
translation and they have published it both in paper and leather bound.
Shoghi Effendi believes that another edition in England will be useless
and perhaps will not find the necessary market. You could buy from America
all the copies you need. Nevertheless, if you want to have a new English
edition you can procure a copy from America. Shoghi Effendi does not
believe it necessary to give it a still other revision....

[From the Guardian:]

My dear and able friend,

I am in correspondence with Rev. Townshend in connexion with various
alterations in my rendering of the Hidden Words. I have just received his
second letter containing suggestions which I greatly appreciate and value.
I am hoping to revise it for a third time after my correspondence with Mr.
T. is over. I feel you can postpone it for the present. I hope and pray
you will succeed in giving wide and effective publicity to the atrocities
perpetrated in Persia, in the British Press. It is so necessary and
important. We must at all costs capture the heights and the British
friends have in this connexion a unique and splendid opportunity in their
own country and amid their own people. Difficult though it be we must
persevere and not relax in our efforts. What Martha(11) has achieved is a
great incentive and example. Your own splendid efforts are deeply and
lovingly appreciated by me.

Shoghi

Letter of 17 October 1926

17 October 1926(12)

To the beloved of the Lord and the handmaids of the Merciful through