to your
fellow-members in the N.S.A....

[From the Guardian:]

Dearest co-workers,

I rejoice to learn of the splendid work that has recently been achieved.
Your accomplishments should spur you on to achieve still greater results
in both the teaching and administrative spheres of Baha'i service. My
prayers will be offered on your behalf. The work in which you are so
devotedly engaged is near and dear to my heart. Persevere and never feel
disheartened.

Affectionately,
Shoghi

Letter of 17 October 1936

17 October 1936

Dear Mr. Hofman,

I am directed by our beloved Guardian to acknowledge with thanks the
receipt of your letter dated August 25th with the enclosed minutes of the
British N.S.A.'s last meeting. He has read them all with utmost care and
profoundest appreciation.

Regarding your Summer School; he is indeed grateful to your Assembly for
the great success that has attended your efforts for the formation of this
institution, the teaching value of which for England cannot be
overestimated. He wishes, in particular, to offer his most sincere thanks
to the Baha'i youth group in London for their remarkable share in making
the school such an outstanding success this year. This has been certainly
a bold undertaking, considering the limited number and resources of the
believers in England. But the results obtained are highly encouraging and
augur well for the future of this first English Baha'i Summer School. The
unity, courage and whole-hearted loyalty of the friends have enabled them
to boldly face and successfully overcome the difficulties and obstacles
which may have first appeared, to many at least, to be quite
unsurmountable. The Guardian would, therefore, urge all the believers to
persevere in their efforts for raising the standard, both intellectual and
spiritual, of their Summer School and to heighten its prestige in the eyes
of the friends, and of the general non-Baha'i public outside. The
institution of the Summer School constitutes a vital and inseparable part
of any teaching campaign, and as such ought to be given the full
importance it deserves in the teaching plans and activities of the
believers. It should be organised in such a way as to attract the
attention of the non-believers to the Cause and thus become an effective
medium for teaching. Also it should afford the believers themselves an
opportunity to deepen their knowledge of the Teachings, through lectures
and discussions a