ed and deeply appreciated your message dated May
7th, and was gratified to learn of the results of your national Baha'i
elections. He wishes me to convey to you, and to the remaining officers of
the N.S.A. his hearty greetings, and his best wishes for the success and
continued expansion of your Baha'i activities in this year. He is
fervently praying for your guidance and assistance in all the various and
historic steps you are taking for the spread and the consolidation of the
Movement throughout Great Britain.

What the Guardian would strongly urge your National Assembly to do in the
next few months is a renewed and decisive effort for the speedy
publication of Mr. Townshend's recent book on the Cause. Through the
reading of such a challenging and scholarly work many will, undoubtedly,
be awakened and stimulated, while others will be infuriated to the extent
of virulently attacking the Faith. The unprecedented publicity which the
Cause will be thus receiving will in itself constitute an important step
towards a wider and fuller recognition of the Movement by distinguished
personalities, in both intellectual and social circles. Mr. Townshend's
book is, indeed, very timely, and through it the friends and the
non-believers will be given a new vision of the Cause. Shoghi Effendi is
hoping that, as a result of his repeated requests, your N.S.A. will be
stimulated to renew and persevere in their efforts in this vitally
important matter.

With the renewed assurance of his prayers on your behalf and on behalf of
the friends in London.

Yours in His Service,

[From the Guardian:]

Dear and valued co-worker,

I will fervently pray that the obstacles that stand in your way and which
hinder the publication of Canon Townshend's splendid work will be
completely and speedily surmounted. I anticipate an outburst of interest
and an unprecedented revival of activity as a direct result of the
circulation of this notable work--a work which I trust will prove a
landmark in the history of the Faith in your land.

Shoghi

Letter of 2 July 1934

2 July 1934

Dear Mrs. Slade,

Shoghi Effendi is pleased to learn, from your letters of June 11th and
16th, of the new possibilities for the publication of Canon Townshend's
book. Realising the number and force of the difficulties which have thus
far stood in your way, he cannot indeed but feel gratified that you have
at last been able to overcome some of them. He hopes that thr