Editing ʻAbdu'l-Bahá (section)

=== First Western pilgrims ===

[[File:Western Pilgrims early 1901-1.jpg|thumb|right|Early Western Baháʼí pilgrims. Standing left to right: [[Charles Mason Remey]], Sigurd Russell, Edward Getsinger and [[Laura Clifford Barney]]; Seated left to right: [[Ethel Jenner Rosenberg]], Madam Jackson, [[Shoghi Effendi]], Helen Ellis Cole, [[Lua Getsinger]], Emogene Hoagg]]

By the end of 1898, Western pilgrims started traveling to Akka on pilgrimage to visit ʻAbdu'l-Bahá; this group of pilgrims, including [[Phoebe Hearst]], was the first time that Baháʼís raised up in the West had met ʻAbdu'l-Bahá.{{sfn|Balyuzi|2001|p=69}} The first group arrived in 1898 and throughout late 1898 to early 1899 Western Baháʼís sporadically visited ʻAbdu'l-Bahá. The group was relatively young containing mainly women from high American society in their 20s.{{sfn|Hogenson|2010|p=x}} The group of Westerners aroused suspicion for the authorities, and consequently ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's confinement was tightened.{{sfn|Hogenson|2010|p=308}} During the next decade ʻAbdu'l-Bahá would be in constant communication with Baháʼís around the world, encouraging them to teach the religion; the group included Susan Moody, Lua Getsinger, Laura Clifford Barney, Herbert Hopper and [[May Maxwell|May Ellis Bolles]] in Paris (all Americans); Englishman [[Thomas Breakwell]]; and Frenchman {{Interlanguage link|Hippolyte Dreyfus|fr|3=Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney}}.{{sfn|Balyuzi|2001|pp=72–96}} It was Laura Clifford Barney who, by asking questions of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá over many years and many visits to Haifa, compiled what later became the book [[Some Answered Questions]].{{sfn|Balyuzi|2001|p=82}}