He (the Guardian) is enclosing extracts from Lord Curzon’s
“Persia and the Persian Question” giving a detailed and faithful description of
the state of Persia in the middle of the 19th century. He thinks that
references to the extracts ... will be of great value in showing to the reader
the contrast between the decadent state of the government and the people at
that time and the heroism and nobility of character displayed by the early
disciples of the Báb... (From a letter dated 30 November 1930 written on behalf
of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer; ‘Unfolding Destiny’)
