Martha's unnumbered admirers throughout Bahá'í world lament with
me the earthly extinction of her heroic life. Concourse on high acclaim her
elevation to rightful position in galaxy of Bahá'í immortals. Posterity will
establish her as foremost Hand which `Abdu'l-Bahá's will has raised up in
first Bahá'í century. Present generation of her fellow-believers recognize
her to be the first, finest fruit which the Formative Age of the Faith of
Bahá'u'lláh has as yet produced. Advise hold befitting memorial gathering
in Temple to honor one whose acts shed imperishable lustre on American
Bahá'í community. Impelled share with National Assembly expenses of
erection of monument in symbolic spot,[Honolulu] the meeting-place of East and
West, to both of which she unsparingly dedicated the full force of her
mighty energies.
Cablegram October 3, 1939