As the Public are indebted to your late Father not only for his
able Translation of the Institutes of the Emperor Timūr, but also for his
having with much perseverance procured and first brought to Europe
an authentic copy of the Memoirs of that Monarch, I have much pleasure
in dedicating to you my Translation of those Memoirs, in hopes of
assisting in some degree to transmit to posterity so meritorious a name.