On ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's birthday, 23 May, over 100 guests were at Francis Breeds home
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On ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's birthday, 23 May, over 100 guests were at Francis Breeds home in Cambridge to celebrate the event. Alice Breed, the mother-in-law of Ali-Kuli Khan: Had baked Him a birthday cake with 68 candles, and to symbolize universality and the love many bore Him . . . had decorated it with tiny flags of the United States, Persia and England. Her first cake fell and she had to bake another . . . Significantly, He did not stay for the festivities. He forgave this time, but had forbidden the celebration of his birthday.
Source: Earl Redman, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Their Midst, p. 137
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