'is in a
community should be permitted to hold a Feast in their home and refuse
admission to another believer; and your Assembly should write accordingly
in very strong terms to the ... Assembly, pointing out that the Guardian
is not only surprised to learn of this situation, but disapproves of it in
the strongest terms.

Any Baha'i may attend a Feast, a local Baha'i, a Baha'i from out of town,
certainly an isolated Baha'i from the neighbourhood.

It is the duty of the ... Assembly to take strong measures to remedy this
situation, and to ensure that the Feasts are held in a place and in a
manner that conforms to the Baha'i spirit....

Letter of 7 June 1957 (Shetland Summer School)

7 June 1957 (Shetland Summer School)

SUPPLICATING ABUNDANT BLESSINGS DEEPEST LOVE.

SHOGHI

Letter of 14 August 1957

14 August 1957

DELIGHTED HISTORIC GATHERING ASSURE FERVENT PRAYERS UNPRECEDENTED
EXPANSION ACTIVITIES.

SHOGHI

Letter of 30 August 1957

30 August 1957

Dear Baha'i Brother:

Your communications with their enclosures and material sent under separate
cover have all arrived safely, and the beloved Guardian has instructed me
to answer you on his behalf and to acknowledge receipt of your letters
dated: July 24, 27 and 31, August 24, 27, and 30, September 7, 26, 27, and
28, October 5, 13 (signed by all members), and 15, November 5 (signed by
Dorothy Ferraby), and 28 (three), and December 14, 18, 27, and 28, 1956,
and January 8, 16, 20 (one undated), and 22nd, February 4, 6, 8, 11, 19,
21, 23, and 27, March 7, 8, 13, and 18 (two), May 6, 9, 21, (two), June 3,
11, 14, 19 and 25, July 12, 16, (two), 19, 21, 26, and August 2, and 5
signed by Ernest Gregory.

As a number of questions raised in your letters have been answered by
cable or through the National Assembly Secretary, I will not go into those
again here.

He was interested to see the Tablets which Dr. Moayad located in
Cambridge, and appreciated having copies of them.

It has been a great pleasure to have had so many members of the British
Baha'i community here last winter and spring as pilgrims.

He is immensely proud of the work which has been accomplished during the
last year, of the remarkable spirit of dedication which animates the
entire community, and which invariably produces, at an hour of crisis, a
strong and healthy reaction on the part of the community to rush
reinforcements to its weak Assemblies, when they are in