collectively
that the Beloved may guide them, and reinforce their efforts for the
spread of our beloved Cause.

Your true brother,
Shoghi

Letter of 22 May 1927

22 May 1927

My dear Mr. Simpson,

I thank you on behalf of Shoghi Effendi for your short letter of the 8th
giving the name of the occupants of the various offices.

He is glad to see the well chosen members each undertaking his suitable
task with the chairman shining amongst them. However he trusts that the
coming year may be one of renewed activity and greater accomplishment. Let
us not be loiterers in a fast-flying world especially when we know to what
grave and universal ills this Cause is a divine remedy....

[From the Guardian:]

With loving greetings and apologies for inability to write more due to
mental fatigue and strain.

Your true brother,
Shoghi

Letter of 25 May 1927

25 May 1927

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AFFECTIONATELY REMEMBERED HOLY SHRINES

SHOGHI

Letters of 8 October 1927 and 17 October 1927

Referred to in Minutes; no text available.

Letter of 15 November 1927

15 November 1927

LOVING APPRECIATION REMEMBRANCE.

SHOGHI

Letter of 28 November 1927

28 November 1927

LOVING APPRECIATION TENDEREST REMEMBRANCE.

SHOGHI

Letter of 5 January 1928

5 January 1928

"...Nothing should be attempted that would, in the least and however
indirectly, interfere with the unqualified freedom of local and national
elections...."

(Quoted in National Spiritual Assembly Minutes)

Letter of 16 January 1928

16 January 1928

My dear Mr. Simpson,

I am instructed by our dear Shoghi Effendi to thank you for your letter of
Dec. 31st with enclosures all of which he was very glad and interested to
read.

With regard to Miss Pinchon's book, Shoghi Effendi feels that if she
herself and the Assembly in London feel that the arrangement with the
London branch of Brentano's is really to her advantage, he would then be
glad to endorse it. The arguments you had brought were really very
favourable and that might help the success of the book in America.
Moreover, he would wish you to thank Asgarzadeh for his commitment in
helping the Assembly to promise a sum of fifty pounds. Shoghi Effendi has
liked the book immensely and trusts that it may render great services and
fulfil all our hopes.

He has taken notice of your solicitor's answer with regard to official
recognition by t