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Mihdí, Mírzá

Son of Bahá’u’lláh, who entitled him "the Purest Branch" (Ghusnu’lláhu’l-Athar); younger brother of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and Bahíyyih Khánum.

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Dunn, Clara, and Dunn, John Henry Hyde

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