Epilogue, p.657, f.1
"Excellency, After the carrying out of those energetic measures on the part of
the Persian Government for the extirpation and extermination of the misguided
and detestable sect of the Babis, with the details of which Your Excellency is
fully acquainted [allusion is made to the great persecution of the Babis in Tihran
in the summer of 1852], praise be to God, by the attention of the Imperial mind
of His most potent Majesty, whose rank is as that of Jamshid, the refuge of the
True Religion--may our lives be his sacrifice!--, their roots were torn up." (Extract
from letter addressed by Mirza Sa'id Khan, ex-foreign minister of Persia; to the
Persian ambassador in Constantinople; dated 12th of 12th Dhu'l-Hijjih, 1278 [May
10, 1862]. Facsimile and translation of the document reproduced in E. G. Browne's
"Materials for the Study of the Babi Religion," p. 283.)