Announce to national assemblies of America, Europe, and Australia the
initiation of preliminary measures for erection of steel framework
designed to support the contemplated dome of the Bab's Sepulcher. Holy
edifice, whose site the Founder of the Faith designated while Himself an
exile in Most Great Prison, whose central structure the Center of His
Covenant erected in the course of the turbulent years of His ministry,
whose enveloping arcade was constructed despite internal disturbance
rocking the Holy Land, is now carried forward despite the mounting
international tension through signing of sixty-three thousand dollar
contract for stonework of octagon. Request beloved friends, collaborators
in historic undertaking, to join me in prayers for uninterrupted
prosecution of work simultaneously initiated in Italy and Holy Land
designed to attain final consummation in rearing the lofty dome, crowning
unit of enterprise so intimately associated with the Three Central Figures
of Faith linking the Heroic and Formative Ages of the Baha'i Dispensation.
[January 4, 1951]