Announce to friends of East and West that operations commenced last
Naw-Ruz on excavation for eight shafts designed for piers supporting the
dome of the Bab's Sepulcher terminated. Consignment of thirty-three tons
of steel, fifty tons of cement safely delivered to Holy Land. Seven
thousand three hundred pound (i.e., Israeli unit of currency) contract for
structural work, capable of sustaining the thousand-ton weight of
superstructure, signed. First installment out of eight hundred tons of
stones for octagon and dome of Shrine recently received. Greatly heartened
by response of self-sacrificing believers in both hemispheres enabling
energetic prosecution at this critical hour of so holy an enterprise. May
sustained support of all communities hasten its glorious consummation.
[May 29, 1951]