My Dear Friend,

I am directed by our Guardian to thank you for your welcome letter of
January 11th.

He has been very pleased to learn of the more rapid progress of the Cause
in Manchester and of a greater measure of unity among the friends. He is
glad that Mr. Hall is taking this initiative and he sincerely trusts that
you will all persevere in your endeavours, will keep dear the necessity
for harmony and unity and thus make your group a progressive, enthusiastic
and worthy Baha'i centre in England. He appreciated your efforts and that
of all friends in Manchester. He wishes you please to convey to them an
expression of his heartfelt love and good wishes.

With best regards, Sincerely in His Service,

[From the Guardian:]

My Dear co-worker,

I am delighted with the news you give me. The friends in Manchester occupy
a warm and abiding place in my heart. The fragrant memory of my visit to
them is still fresh and vivid in my mind. I will continue to supplicate at
the Beloved's Shrine for each one of them the Almighty's richest
blessings, that they may be guided and strengthened to render in the days
to come inestimable services to the sacred Threshold.

With my best wishes to your dear relatives,

Your true brother,
Shoghi

Letter of 20 July 1932

20 July 1932

Manchester Spiritual Assembly

Dear Baha'i Sister,

Shoghi Effendi was greatly pleased to receive your kind letter of June
24th, 1932, and he has requested me to address you these few lines
expressing his heartfelt appreciation of the precious and most valuable
steps taken by our Manchester friends towards a greater extension and
consolidation of the Cause.

The Guardian was specially glad to hear that you have established a new
Baha'i Centre and he fervently hopes that as a result of this new move the
interests of the Faith will be promoted and its teachings will succeed in
confirming some new souls.

The precious efforts so continuously exerted by our Manchester Baha'is and
particularly by our beloved Mr. Hall and Mr. Sugar will undoubtedly yield
their fruits in a not very distant future. But the friends should
persevere in their task and not let any obstacle, however great, hinder
their onward march. In these days of sufferings and hardships, patience
and hope are indispensable for the success of any idea or plan.

In closing may I assure you of our Guardian's best wishes and ask you to
extend to all our Manchester Baha'is the exp