These letters and cables of Shoghi Effendi tell their own story. No words can better relate the story of the creative impulse received and the heroic endeavor made by the British Baha'i community than the words of the beloved Guardian himself. The period covered by these letters and cables is unique in more ways than one. It covers the first thirty-six years of the Formative Age of the Faith of Baha'u'llah, an Age inaugurated by the accession of Shoghi Effendi to the Guardianship of that Faith. It is a period that has witnessed, in human society, the greatest upheavals, the most destructive war, the most widespread disruption of any comparable period in human history. It has witnessed the rise and establishment of the Administrative Order of Baha'u'llah throughout the earth.