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29 April 1948

Dear Baha'i Brother,

Your letters to our beloved Guardian, written on behalf of the British
N.S.A., and dated as follows: Oct 20th, 22nd, 24th and 29th, Nov. 10th and
17th, Dec. 1st and 15th of 1947, and Jan. 13th, Feb. 8th, 9th, 13th, and
27th, and March 1st and 4th of 1948 and April 5th, 1948, together with
various enclosures, have been received, and he has instructed me to answer
you on his behalf.

A number of matters referred to in them have been answered by cable, so I
will not go into them again.

He was specially pleased to receive the copies of the Tablet of the Master
to Andrew Carnegie, as this is yet another authentic and interesting
Baha'i document.

He was, likewise, very pleased to receive the statement of Sir A.
Ramaswami Mudaliar testifying to his appreciation of the Faith, and he
will use it in the appropriate section of "Baha'i World" in the
forthcoming edition.

The instruction he gave to the effect that committees should elect their
own officers, he feels, is universal in scope and should, therefore, apply
to Great Britain as well....

Regarding the matter of the budget of the N.S.A. he feels that both wisdom
and courage is required in this matter. You should not fix a budget which
is too heavy for the community to meet, even with sacrifice. Both the
pressing needs of the Cause and your Plan, as well as the foreseeable
possibilities of your income should guide you.

He has no objection to extracts from his letters to ... being published.
He feels that in the future it is not necessary to ask his permission to
publish such extracts. As long as the person who has received a letter,
such as he would wish to share with others, from the Guardian, has no
objection to its publication, he has no objection either. Anything
confidential he always specifies as being such.

He feels that the question of Mrs. Hofman giving up the secretaryship of
the National Teaching Committee, and who is to be chairman of it, etc. is
something to be decided there by those responsible for the work.

In one of your letters you mentioned some ... who have visited the London
Centre and their attitude: great patience must be used in dealing with the
child-like members of some of these primitive races. They are innocent in
heart and have certainly had a very bad example, in many Christians, of a
purely mercenary approach to religion, but if their hearts and minds once
become illumined with the Fa