Tablet catalog
Words to Latimer and Remey, spoken on 1914-10-14
OOL 06 50036 Phelps: ABU 2001
ABU 2001•‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Latimer and Remey, spoken on 1914-10-14
140 words
Question:
[Mr Remey asked whether the system of preserving the dead bodies by embalming was good.]
Translation:
Provisional translation
The best method is to bury the body. Just as systematically as the body has grown into its present form, it has to be disintegrated.
DAS. Diary notebooks and letters of Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, Dec. 1912 – Jun. 1915. English and Persian diary notebooks and letters held in the U.S. National Bahá’í Archives. Often quoted in other sources such as SW. Catalog entries are indexed by date and include only the English notebooks and letters. Letters from 1 Jul 1913 through 19 Oct. 1914 found here: https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914
DAS.1914-10-14
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PN. Pilgrim notes from the U.S. National Bahá’í Archives. Arranged by year with occasional additional identifiers. https://bahai-library.com/pilgrims- notes_us_archives_1898-1959
PN_1914 p079
https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1914.pdf#page=79