A.L.S. To Sir John McNeill. About "sending A Copy of the first two volumes of my Perisan Translation of the Old Testament in Boards without the Title page, which isnot yet printed. We arenow at the psalms & hope to have the whole finished in the course of a about a half a year..." de Glen, William (1778-1849) - 1845

[London]: 6 Clarence St, 1845. 12mo. Fine. 12mo. Dr. McNeill had been surgeon in the East India Company. Palmerton sent him to Persia as envoy and Minister-plenipotentiary in 1836 to replace Henry Ellis. He returned home in 1842. "About 1823 he began what was to be his principal life's work, the translation of the Old Testament from Hebrew into Persian. He began with Psalms and Proverbs, his translations being published separately by the British and Foreign Bible Society. By the time he returned to Scotland in 1834 his reputation as a Persian scholar was already established. Glen continued working on his translation in Scotland until 1837, when he was sent to Persia, by the synod of the United Secession church, to complete his labours. He lived in Tabriz and Tehran; in 1843 he returned to Scotland, taking his completed manuscript with him. It was printed by Thomas Constable of Edinburgh and published in 1845, the cost met by the mission board of the United Secession church, aided by a grant of £500 from the British and Foreign Bible Society. In 1845 he was awarded the degree of DD by the University of St Andrews. Glen volunteered to supervise the distribution of his work in Persia and to circulate with it a new edition of the Persian translation of the New Testament by Henry Martyn. Glen and his son Andrew sailed for Persia by way of Constantinople in 1847. In January 1848 they were received by the shah, who was presented with copies of the Old and New testaments and a translation of Sketch of the Evidence from Prophecy (1823) by Alexander Keith. After a short illness Glen died of dysentery in Tehran on 12 January 1849 and was buried there in the Armenian cemetery. " ODNB.