1940 BAHA'I DISCIPLE JULIET THOMPSON INSCRIBED ! 'I, MARY MAGDALEN' 1ST ED RARE

Description: [BAHAI FAITH, ABDUL BAHA, JULIET THOMPSON]THOMPSON, Juliet (Author) "I, MARY MAGDALEN" New York. Delphic Studios. 1940. 1st Edition. Octavo (6.25 in x 9.0 in) Original black cloth w/ silver lettering. Contents clean. Covers well worn as shown, top of backstrip lifting, hinges shaken but serviceable. Overall, good. THIS COPY INSCRIBED BY NOTABLE BAHA'I DISCIPLE JULIET THOMPSON TO HER FRIEND HENRY HORTON ON THE FFEP. This title in commerce is EXCEEDINGLY RARE (World Cat cites 7 copies total in North America). This copy (as is the other title we have listed) is quite scarce and in demand as she is a key figure in the history of the Bahai faith. Also laid in to this copy is a postcard from Thompson to Horton dated 1951 + a prospectus brochure for this book. We traced only one other signed copy of this work having been sold......here on Ebay, Jan 10, 2023 for $1295.00. All in all, a truly important collecting opportunity for the Bahai faith collector. ______________Juliet Thompson (1873–1956) was an American artist, and disciple of Baháʼí Faith leader ʻAbdu'l-Bahá. She is perhaps best remembered for her book The Diary of Juliet Thompson though she also painted a life-sized portrait of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá.After learning of the Baháʼí Faith in Washington, D.C., near 1898 she traveled to Paris at the invitation of Laura Dreyfus-Barney's mother. Later in 1901 in Paris she met Thomas Breakwell, (see Baháʼí Faith in the United Kingdom), who gave her Arthur de Gobineau's description in French of the execution of the Báb which confirmed her faith. Paris is where Charles Mason Remey first met Thompson when she was taking classes on the religion from Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl.Among many talks ʻAbdu'l-Bahá gave in the United States he gave one at her residence on 15 November 1912 at 48 West Tenth Street, New York. At this meeting he described distinctive qualities of the religion.During World War I she offered talks on the Baháʼí topic of The Most Great Peace. In the 1940s Thompson made several extended trips to Mexico to promulgate the religion. (See Baháʼí Faith in Mexico.)Thompson recalled Khalil Gibran, a neighbor and acquaintance of hers, and reports several anecdotes relating to Gibran: She recalls Gibran met ʻAbdu'l-Bahá a couple times circa 1911–1912Over her life she made two Baháʼí pilgrimages. Her first was in July, 1909 when she began her diary which was eventually published. Her work is a main source on ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's journeys to the West when he was in Europe in 1911 as well as some of his travels in the United States in 1912.Thompson's second pilgrimage was in 1926.Thompson died at her home in New Rochelle, NY on December 4, 1956. Please email any questions -

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