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020			_a0-87743-015-2 (cloth)
020			_a0-87743-037-3 (pbk)
040			_cNew Zealand National Baha'i Reference Library
245	1	0	_aThe Chosen Highway _bAn historical outline of the beginnings of the Baháʼi faith, compiled from personal narratives, and an account of the visits of ʻAbduʼl-Bahá to London and Paris. With portraits.
246			_aThe Chosen Highway : Spoken Chronicles of the Ladies in the House of Abdu'l-Baha
260			_aLondon _bBaha'i Publishing Trust _c[1940]
300			_ax, 260 p. plates
505			_aSara, Lady Blomfield began to take written notes of the ‘spoken chronicles’ of the ladies of the Family of Bahá’ú’lláh during her first visit to Haifa in 1922. In the first days of mourning for the beloved Master's passing she listened to the Greatest Holy Leaf telling the story of her childhood and youth during the terrible imprisonment and exiles of Bahá'u'lláh, and began what she describes in her immortal book as an attempt to indicate some phases of a great historic moment in the life of Spiritual Civilization, which have not been elsewhere recorded. No reader of The Chosen Highway or of the description of its author in the Preface by H. M. Balyuzi can fail to appreciate the qualities of warmth, spirit and faith that enabled her first to elicit and then to faithfully chronicle the stories told to her by Bahíyyih Khánum and by Abdu'l-Bahá's wife and daughters. No professional historian would have been taken into their confidence in the same way. Her presence gives us much joy, wrote the wife of Abdu'l-Bahá. We look upon her, not only as a friend, but as one of our own dear family. These accounts, together with Lady Blomfield s own description of Abdu'l-Bahá s visit to London when she welcomed him as a guest in her home, have ensured the lasting interest of The Chosen Highway since its first publication in 1940.
600		0	_9642 _aLady Sarah Blomfield _qSitarih Khanum
650		0	_9119 _aHistory _vBaha'i Faith
650		0	_aFamily _v'Abdu'l-Baha _91391
700			_aLady Sarah Blomfield _9642 _qSitarih Khanum
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