num_pages: 422
description: Volume 1 (Early Years) covers the years 1870-1922 beginning with the childhood years of May Bolles and Sutherland Maxwell; their youth their meeting and courtship in Paris; their marriage and their first pilgrimages. It tells the story of the birth of their daughter and the historic visit of Abdul-Bah to their home in Montreal just before World War I. It also describes the early development and training of young Mary the family's activities during the war years the reception of the Tablets of the Divine Plan and the passing of Abdul-Bah which ended the Heroic Age of the Baha'i Faith.This book draws on over 1600 personal letters between May Sutherland and Mary Maxwell (Amatu'l-Bah Ryyih Khnum) together with about 1400 letters which the three Maxwells exchanged with their relatives and some of the early Bahs. It includes citations from the 195 Tablets letters and cables from Abdul-Bah Shoghi Effendi and the Greatest Holy Leaf to members of the family which have never been transcribed before. It also contains extracts from Ryyih Khnum's notebooks the memoirs of her mother sketches made by her father and articles and photographs related to the period.
language: English
title: The Maxwells of Montreal, Early Years 1870 - 1922
publisher: George Ronald, Oxford