To my honored and distinguished sister [the Greatest Holy
Leaf] do thou convey the expression of my heartfelt, my intense longing. Day
and night she liveth in my remembrance. I dare make no mention of the feelings
which separation from her has aroused in my heart, for whatever I should
attempt to express in writing will assuredly be effaced by the tears which such
sentiments must bring to my eyes.
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, quoted by Shoghi Effendi in a
letter dated July 17, 1932; ‘Baha’i Administration’)
