Dear Sandra,
David was asking for references by Shoghi Effendi or Abdu'l-Baha. What you've posted is by Nabil (translated by Shoghi Effendi). This listing is merely a suggestion by Nabil and no more. Others have suggested other individuals as Letters.
Regards,
ahang.
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Happy to be of assistance...
Lovingly, Sandra
"As to those whose supreme privilege
it was to be enrolled by
the Báb in the Book of His Revelation as His chosen Letters of
the Living, their names are as follows:
Mulla Husayn-i-Bushru'i,
Muhammad-Hasan, his brother,
Muhammad-Baqir, his nephew,
Mulla Aliy-i-Bastami,
Mulla Khuda-Bakhsh-i-Quchani, later named
Mulla Ali
Mulla Hasan-i-Bajistani,
Siyyid Husayn-i-Yazdi,
Mirza Muhammad Rawdih-Khan-i-Yazdi,
Sa'id-i-Hindi,
Mulla Mahmud-i-Khu'i,
Mulla Jalil-i-Urumi,
Mulla Ahmad-i-Ibdal-i-Maraghi'i,
Mulla Baqir-i-Tabrizi,
Mulla Yusif-i-Ardibili,
Mirza Hadi, son of Mulla Abdu'l-Vahhab-i-Qazvini,
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Mirza Muhammad-'Aliy-i-Qazvini.[1]
Tahirih,[2]
Quddus.
These all, with the single exception of
Tahirih, attained the
presence of the Báb, and were personally invested by Him with
the distinction of this rank."
(Shoghi Effendi, The Dawn-Breakers, p.
80-81)
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