Dear Baha'i Friends,
Miss Effie Baker is leaving for Australia with the consent and full
approval of the Guardian.
As you know for over ten years she has been devotedly working for the
Cause in Haifa, as keeper of the Western Pilgrim House and also as the
custodian of the International Baha'i Archives. During this long period of
service she has accomplished much for our beloved Cause, and she is now in
need of some rest after so many years of strenuous labours. She is going
to join her mother, and will, it is hoped, prove of great help to the
friends throughout Australia and New-Zealand in both their teaching and
administrative activities.
The Guardian hopes, therefore, that the friends will give her all the
opportunity she needs to help in the extension and consolidation of the
Cause throughout Australia and New-Zealand.
He is entrusting Miss Baker with a beautiful and most precious present for
the friends; it is one of the finest photographs of the Master which, he
wishes your N.S.A. to place in your National Baha'i Archives. He is, in
addition, sending through her for the believers a bottle of attar of rose
extracted by the friends in Persia.
With loving greetings and all good wishes for a most happy and prosperous
New Year.
Yours in His Service,
H. Rabbani.