am writing and forwarding this to
you through our dear brother, Mr. Asgarzadeh. Some time ago I received a
letter addressed to our beloved Guardian from Miss Mabel M. Sharples, the
Hon. Secretary of the Conference on Living Religions within the Empire,
giving him some information concerning the time of the Conference, and
conditions covering the submission of papers to be read at the Conference.
I forwarded this letter to our beloved Shoghi Effendi.

Yesterday I received a letter from him instructing me to answer in his
behalf Miss Sharples' letter. Yesterday I answered her letter and told her
that Shoghi Effendi hopes to be able to attend the Conference and deliver
an address on the Cause in person and in case circumstances prevent him
from doing so, a paper will be sent to the Conference through Mr. Simpson,
the President of the Baha'i Spiritual Assembly, to be read on that
occasion. I told her also that we will appreciate any further information
or suggestion she thinks necessary in regard to this matter. This
information or suggestion will be communicated by her to your National
Spiritual Assembly.

This morning a cablegram was communicated by the Greatest Holy Leaf to Mr.
Roy Wilhelm in New York, instructing the committee in charge of the
desired article to hasten its despatch. This article should be handed
towards the end of July. The time is short. If the American friends have
already sent that article, I mean if it is on the way, and we receive it
in time, we shall immediately forward it to our dear Shoghi Effendi for
his approval and then mail it to you. If it, however, arrives late, we
will directly mail it to you so that you may modify it if necessary and
hand it over to the Secretary of the Conference. In the latter case, it is
not necessary to submit it to Shoghi Effendi for his approval, for he
authorises you, the members of the National Spiritual Assembly to make any
correction which you think advisable.

Shoghi Effendi has also instructed me to enclose a cheque for thirty
pounds in this letter as contribution towards the Conference. If the
English friends are to add something to this sum and offer it to the
Conference, it will be highly appreciated by Shoghi Effendi.

The cheque is drawn by the Anglo-Palestine Bank at Haifa on the Jewish
Colonial Trust, London, payable to your order. It is dated June 15th and
No. F077834/34224. Today we received the answer to our cablegram to Mr.
Wilhelm, stating tha