u just what thoughts and sentiments your
frank expressions of loyalty and love aroused in his heart, this I feel I
can assure you that it made him hopeful of the future and added to his
great confidence in you.

The Baha'i Cause has a great mission to the people of England but the
field of service though immensely vast presents innumerable difficulties,
and it needs the able hand of a staunch and true Baha'i primarily and the
dexterity of a good supervisor, to overcome every confronting difficulty
and to carry His Message to millions of people. This responsibility has
been entrusted to you by the guided decision of the Baha'is in England and
our Guardian finds great pleasure in confiding the same duty in you and in
endorsing the happy decision of the friends there.

In regard to your contemplated withdrawal from the presidency of the
N.S.A. and the London Assembly, it made him very happy to know that even
the thought of it has totally vanished. The hopes that he cherished in you
are far too many to permit you a more quiet part in Baha'i activities in
England, and the hopeful signs of progress in the past year has made the
prospects of the coming year very bright and it all depends upon the
efforts of the friends in England and the guidance of our Master from on
high just how bright it shall turn out to be.

We still have Mr. Mills with us in Haifa and I assure you, we miss you
very much. The photograph you had sent to Shoghi Effendi has been received
and it shall be framed and placed in the Persian Pilgrim House...

...just of late we had the very sad news of the martyrdom of a Baha'i
woman expecting to be soon a mother, and although she was related to very
influential officers in the army, nothing could make the criminals, who
sought refuge in the house of one of the Mullas, arrested. Though such
cases of untold carnage prove with much more force than mere words just
what the spirit of Baha'u'llah infused into every such Baha'i has been,
and exactly what it means in Persia to try and become one, the horrors of
such a murder are truly beyond words. All that we have to do is to seek
His Grace and to beg and implore for God's mercy.

May I also write a further assurance of Shoghi Effendi's reliance upon you
and with an expression of his heartfelt love for you....

[From the Guardian:]

My most precious fellow-worker,

But for your unremitting labours, your sound and selfless efforts, the
burden that weighs upon me