Myron Henry Phelps

Myron Henry Phelps (Lewiston, Fulton County, Illinois, 2 April 1856 - Bombay, 29 December 1916) was a New York lawyer and religious writer.

[3] He had a secret "spiritual marriage" to Miranda de Souza Canavarro (Sister Sanghamitta) (1849-1933), a wealthy American socialite married to the Portuguese ambassador to the Sandwich Islands.

He organized the Indo-American National Association in Maine and another Society for the Advancement of India in New York in 1907 with branches in Detroit and Chicago opened in 1908.

[2] Phelps and Sanghamitta visited ʻAbdu'l-Bahá in ‘Akkā and stayed with "the Master" for over a month, questioning him extensively about the Baha'i faith.

[citation needed] The work has been well-known among Baháʼís for nearly a century, and is especially popular for its documentation of recollections by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's sister.