Amelia Collins was appointed as a Hand of the Cause in 1947
but the appointment was not made public until December 1951. In a letter dated
14 January 1947 written on behalf of the Guardian to Mrs. Collins, his
secretary states:
He wants to make clear to you that when he said, in his
recent cable,4 that your example might well be emulated by the nine Hands of
the Cause, who will in the future be especially chosen to serve the Guardian,
he meant that the very services you have been recently rendering the Cause,
because of their nature and their intimate association with him, are of the
kind which one of these nine might well be called upon to render. So you see
you are not only worthy to be a Hand of the Cause, but have rendered a service which
ordinarily would be performed by this select body of nine.
