I am instructed by our beloved Guardian to acknowledge with thanks the
receipt of your communication dated October 17th, together with the
enclosed report on the first Indian Baha'i Summer School held in Simla
during last September.
And as to the photographs of the Summer School you had submitted under
separate cover, these will be placed in the Mansion of Baha'u'llah at
Bahji, and will also appear in the "Baha'i World" Vol. VIII.
The Guardian wishes me in this connection to express his profound
satisfaction at the success that has attended the N.S.A.'s efforts for the
formation of this first Baha'i Summer School in India--a step which, he
strongly feels, is bound to accelerate the extension of the teaching
activities of the believers in that land.
He is truly delighted to know that the attendance at the school has been
satisfactory, and that the young believers, in particular, have been most
enthusiastic about it. What he feels now is most essential for the N.S.A.
is to make arrangements to have this school held regularly every year, so
that it may develop into an effective, and increasingly vital, instrument
for the propagation of the Faith, and also for the education and training
of Baha'i teachers.
It is the Guardian's fervent hope that as this Institution expands, and
fulfils the high hopes you all set upon it, it will be felt advisable by
the N.S.A. to consider the possibilities of establishing, in due time, one
or two more of such schools, thus permitting those friends, who in view of
their limited means are not in a position to travel over large distances,
to avail themselves of the benefits derived from these nascent Baha'i
institutions of learning.