ons of loving
devotion and the assurances of loyalty which you have been moved in
conveying to him. He profoundly values the warm sentiments you have
expressed, and fully reciprocates your greetings and good wishes.

What has particularly rejoiced and cheered his heart is the realisation
that the Esslingen Summer School is steadily developing and is speedily
attaining the character of an international meeting place for all Baha'i
residents as well as travellers throughout Europe. The success that has
attended your school this year, as evidenced by both the wide range and
number of the attendants, is truly encouraging and augurs well for the
future of that institution which, we have every reason to hope, is
destined to develop into a leading Baha'i University throughout the West.

The Guardian's hope is that the German N.S.A. will, as in the last few
years, continue extending to that school the moral as well as the
financial assistance which it needs for its further expansion, and for a
still wider and more effective penetration of its influence in every
Baha'i center throughout Europe.

He also hopes, and indeed would urge each and every one of the believers
in Germany to extend full and continued support to the N.S.A. in its
highly-meritorious efforts for the extension and development of the Summer
School at Esslingen. He is confident that through such a close and
whole-hearted collaboration between the individual believers and the
N.S.A. that school will succeed in gradually fulfilling its unique and
truly noble mission, both with regard to Germany and to Europe as a whole.

With the loving greetings and best wishes of the Guardian to you all,...

[From the Guardian:]

Dear and valued friends:

I am thrilled by the tone and character of the joint message you sent me.
The splendid achievements that have signalized the proceedings of this
year's summer school are a source of abiding inspiration to me in my work,
and will as a powerful magnet attract future blessings upon the great and
noble work which its organizers are labouring to promote. I will continue
to pray for you and for your work in such a promising field and for so
meritorious a purpose.

Gratefully and affectionately,
Shoghi

LETTER OF 9 DECEMBER 1936

9 December 1936

Beloved Baha'i Brothers and Sisters,

Shoghi Effendi is just in receipt of the message you have written him
through ... dated November 28th. How kind of you to addres