o Olga Mills his loving appreciation of
her devoted services, and assure her of his prayers in her behalf.

If Una Townshend finds it impossible to return to Malta, then the Guardian
hopes you can send some other pioneer to that important post....

Letter of 16 May 1954

16 May 1954

I am enclosing, at the instruction of our beloved Guardian, the original
title-deed of one-quarter of an acre of land recently purchased near the
resting-place of the Greatest Holy Leaf on Mount Carmel; and registered in
the name of the Israel Branch of the National Spiritual Assembly of the
Baha'is of the British Isles.

The cost of this property was six thousand dollars.

He feels sure that the British Baha'is will rejoice to know that they now
have a part of the International Baha'i Endowments in the name of their
own special Israel Branch....

Letter of 4 June 1954

4 June 1954

British Africa Committee

Dear Baha'i Sister:

The various letters of your committee dated June 8 and 25, July 6, August
13, September 23, October 8, November 25 and December 31, 1953, and
January 27 (3), March 6 and 30 and April 20, 1954, with their enclosures,
have been received by the beloved Guardian and he has instructed me to
answer you on his behalf. As he has been in constant cable communication
with you during the past year, I will not go into many of the matters
which have already been attended to.

Of all the places in the world where the Baha'i Faith exists and is
spreading, the Guardian is definitely most pleased with Africa, and most
proud of Uganda. He feels that the spirit shown by white and negro
pioneers alike in that continent, presents a challenge to the Baha'is
everywhere in the world, and that old and staid communities may well learn
from, and emulate the example of, the believers of Africa, many of them
scarcely a year old in the Cause of God!

He feels that your committee and the British N.S.A. have every reason to
be proud of the work you have accomplished, and grateful for the blessings
you have received from on High.

It has particularly rejoiced his heart to see the way almost every goal
was attained at the last minute, before the end of the first year of the
Ten Year Crusade, many of these goals through the immediate whole-hearted
response of some of these new African Baha'is, themselves the spiritual
children of other African Baha'is--young in the Faith, but old in their
understanding of it.

The