With much emotion and the deepest sense of gratitude I supplicate at the holy Threshold—and request you to join with me in my prayers—for the spiritual advancement in the realms above of a soul who by the sheer merit of the signal services he rendered already deserves to rank highly among the departed faithful. May he forever rest in peace. Shoghi Letter of 31 December 1928 31 December 1928 Not until harmony and concord are firmly established among the friends of London and Manchester will the Cause advance along sound and progressive lines. May they be guided and inspired to do His Will and achieve His Purpose. Shoghi Letter of 29 August 1929 29 August 1929 My dear Mr. Simpson, I write on behalf of the Guardian with reference to a subject that has lately been raised by the N.S.A. of America, and referred to him—the publication of a revised edition of the “Hidden Words” in England. Shoghi Effendi has asked me to write to America that in view of the alterations that were lately introduced through the assistance of Miss Rosenberg and Canon Townshend, a new edition of the “Hidden Words” is fully justified and he approves of it. However he does advise that such a publication should not be taken up privately but wholly undertaken by the English N.S.A. and in view of the large stock which the American N.S.A. now holds of the present edition, he would urge that the new edition should be deferred until the American N.S.A. has sold off the bulk of its present stock. In general he would greatly desire and keenly advise better co-operation and co-ordination in the work of the American and English N.S.A. with regard to publication. London, despite its small group has done great work in Bahá’í publications but they must never forget that their market lies unfortunately mainly across the Atlantic.... ...I hope you have been able to go to Geneva with Mr. Mills. Yours will be an Englishman’s sober and matter of fact talk.... Letter of 27 September 1929 27 September 1929(22) GUARDIAN WIRES DEEPLY REGRETS INABILITY PARTICIPATE PERSONALLY DEDICATION GATHERING OVERJOYED BRIGHT PROSPECTS LOVING GOOD WISHES, SHOGHI. BAHÁ’ÍYYIH (taken from National Spiritual Assembly Minutes of 16 November.) Letter of 29 November 1929 29 November 1929 My dear Mr. Simpson, Thank you so much for your letter of Sept. 19th and for the copy of the “Hidden Words” you sent me later. Evidently enough I kept them until our Guardian’s arrival and I now hasten to reply. While he is well pleased with the booklet as it is now produced, Shoghi Effendi wishes me to express his regret that by appearing so soon, it has rendered the sale of a few thousand copies now in the hands of the American Publications Committee, extremely difficult, if not impossible.