That is the only name and foreign subject so frequently discussed and enjoyed by him and all of us. How particular he is to see that every week letters be sent to you from here by airmail. And when he doesn't receive letters from you for two to three weeks, he feels so sad. For Baba to hear that Shirin [Audrey] and Mumtaz [Zilla] are becoming colder and less responsive, rather indifferent to him, has added much to his grief. What grief it causes Baba, you can have no idea!
However, Shalimar [Minta] writes every week how terribly she misses Baba and finds life "lifeless" without him. Leyla's [Delia] faithfulness and love flow through her weekly letters; Zuleka [Margaret] and Phiroze [Mabel] have nothing else but love to offer to Baba in words that delight him ever so much; Saroja's [Kitty] love is ever selfless as it ought to be. They all want and wait to see Baba with them in January, full of love and enthusiasm.
These are the bright spots and cheerful and comforting words that really cheer and comfort him.
After leaving Baba in Venice at the end of August, Margaret, Delia and Kitty had returned to London. Quentin had been sent by Baba to Siena, Italy, to study at the university until Norina could arrive from America. Norina and Quentin had been directed to go to Germany and various other places in Europe to try to interest people in Baba.
Norina arrived in Genoa on 26 September 1932. From there she and Quentin, together or separately, visited Venice, Florence, Argenta, Verona, Munich, Basel, Zurich, Halle, Berlin and Budapest. By the end of December they returned to Venice, where they were to join Baba's group. Baba was to travel to all those places in Europe, but as so often happened with him, plans were to change. Baba's silent message carried the seed of consciousness within it for the countries his disciples visited. Quentin, Norina and Rustom (who had been sent to Australia and New Zealand) were the outward media of Baba's inner work. Through them, he forged the link for his spiritual work with these different nations.
During Norina's and Quentin's travels, the most notable of their contacts were the psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung in Switzerland at the end of October; theater producer Max Reinhardt (who had directed Norina in The Miracle ); and the physicist Albert Einstein outside of Berlin.
