ence.

Hoping you received the long letter recently mailed you, and with loving
Baha'i greetings,

Yours,
R. Rabbani.

P.S. He wishes to thank you and dear Mr. Bolton for the loving gift of
Bolton Place to the Baha'i Community of Australia. This is an excellent
example, and befitting gesture, for it has many associations with the
spread and development of the Faith in Australia, and has further enriched
the record of your historic services to the Faith.

LETTER OF JUNE 28, 1950

The National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Australia and New
Zealand.

June 28, 1950.

Dear Baha'i Friends:

Your letters of August 9, 19; September 14, 22; November 7, 10, 21; of
1949; January 19; February 28; March 8, 31; April 11; May 2 (two), 1950,
have been received by our beloved Guardian and he has instructed me to
answer them on his behalf. The many enclosures and material forwarded
have, likewise, been safely received.

It has been impossible for our Guardian to keep abreast of his
correspondence and other work this Winter and Spring. It is only during
the last week that he has been able to turn to the mountain of mail,
representing the correspondence of the various National Assemblies, and
commence replying. The reason for this regrettable delay is that in order
to get the arcade of the Shrine of the Bab finished in time for the
centenary of His Martyrdom he had to undertake extensive excavations into
the solid rock of the mountain behind the Shrine--the new edifice being
much larger than the precious original building it is designed to enshrine
and protect. This work he personally supervised in order to ensure the
Shrine was in no way damaged, and to see the cost was kept within bounds.
You can imagine this was a very exacting and tiring ordeal for him.

Then, just as he had hoped to take up his overburdening correspondence,
Mr. Maxwell, the architect of the Shrine, at the beginning of April became
desperately ill, and for ten weeks absorbed the anxious care and attention
of us all, as his condition was seemingly hopeless. Thanks to the Mercy of
Baha'u'llah and the determination of the Guardian, he is recovering, and
our lives are getting back to normal routine.

The Guardian regrets very much the conduct of Mr. ...; it seems now fairly
clear that he is a former Baha'i from India who misconducted himself there
over a period of years and then showed up, under a different name, in
Australia. No one who co