The life and work of the Guardian told through diary entries and letters of pilgrims and visitors to the Bahá’í Holy Places, as well as the accounts of those who worked to assist the Guardian. As in all such cases, these recollections must be taken in the spirit of pilgrim notes — interesting and thought-provoking highlights that provide unique insights and inspiration, but not Bahá’í Sacred Text.

Volume I (1922−1952) covers the years when the Guardian was laying the foundations of the Bahá’í Administrative Order destined to culminate in the World Order of Bahá’u’lláh, while at the same time planning and carrying out the extension and development of the Shrines of the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh, translating the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh as well as The Dawn-Breakers and writing his own major works, as well as facing challenges to his authority and responding to the confiscation of the House of Bahá’u’lláh in Baghdad and the persecution of Bahá’ís in Iran and Egypt.