GENTLEMEN,

I HAD the satisfaction for several years to serve as a Professor in your College. I wish I could think that my usefulness was equal to my earnest desire for the prosperity of our Indian possessions; the welfare of the natives; and the health and happiness of those who are called, by Providence, to the important duty of governing those ancient and interesting nations.

At the request of the Students, I translated part of the AKHLĀḲ-I MUḤSINĪ, and a portion of the ANVĀR-I SUHELĪ, to help them in learning Persian.

Permit me thus to offer them to your use; partly that I may make this public avowal of the deep interest I shall always feel in the prosperity of the College; and partly that I may indulge the hope of not being forgotten among you.