ed
booklet prepared by the British N.S.A. for teaching purposes, and also the
latest issue of the "Baha'i Journal", and the report of the Convention
proceedings for this year.

He has read with keenest interest and with deep gratification the Annual
Report of your Assembly and has been very much impressed indeed by its
comprehensiveness, and by your ability in presenting the facts in such a
lucid and effective language. He has sent the text to Mr. Holley for
reproduction in the next "Baha'i World", as an appendix to the
International Survey of activities.

Although the range of Baha'i activities throughout Great Britain during
this past year has been considerably restricted as a result of the
departure of many travelling and visiting Baha'i teachers, yet the fact
that the friends were, in spite of that and other handicaps, able to
maintain the course of their activities constitutes a clear evidence that
the English Baha'i Community is at last able to stand on its own feet, and
has sufficient resources, both moral and material, to enable it to carry
on, without any external help, the heavy task that has been committed to
its charge.

The Guardian wishes you to assure your fellow members on the N.S.A. and
through them the friends throughout Great Britain, of his fervent prayers
that throughout the course of this new year they may evince such a unity,
zeal and renewed consecration to their task as to further demonstrate the
strength of their position as a self-supporting and ever-growing national
Baha'i community....

[From the Guardian:]

Wishing you and your dear co-workers the utmost success in your high and
meritorious endeavours,

Your true and grateful brother,
Shoghi October 1938 (Third Summer School) ASSURE YOU PRAYERS HEARTILY
RECIPROCATE GREETINGS.

SHOGHI

Letter of 24 October 1938

24 October 1938

Dear Baha'i Brother,

Your communications written on behalf of the British N.S.A. and dated June
23rd, July 8th and September 15th with their enclosures have all been duly
received and their contents noted with interest and satisfaction by our
beloved Guardian.

Regarding the papers you had enclosed in your last letter relating to the
N.S.A.'s application for incorporation, he has read these with the closest
attention, and has already communicated to you his approval by cable, and
wishes me now to urge your Assembly to proceed with this matter without
delay and to make every effort to have t