The portrait of the Master, which you painted with obviously
so much care and love, he has placed in the Western Pilgrim House, where it can
be enjoyed by the friends. He has no objection to your giving friends
photographs of your portrait, but he feels it should not take the place on
their walls of photographs of the Master if they prefer to keep their own,
particularly the one taken in Paris which 'Abdu'l-Bahá Himself chose as being
the best of Him. (From a letter dated 28 March 1947 written on behalf of the
Guardian to an individual believer; Compilation
‘Representation of Manifestations of God and the Master in Portraits,
Photographs, and Dramatic Presentations’, prepared by the Research Department
of the Universal House of Justice)
