Ch.XXII, p.518, f.1
"`The Emperor of Russia,' he [Haji Mirza Jani] says, `sent to the
Russian consul at Tabriz, bidding him fully investigate and report the
circumstances of His Holiness the Bab. As Soon as this news arrived,
they, i.e. the Persian authorities, put the Bab to death. The Russian
consul summoned Aqa Siyyid Muhammad-i-Husayn, the Bab's amanuensis, who
was imprisoned at Tabriz, into his presence, and enquired concerning the
signs and circumstances of His Holiness. Aqa Siyyid Husayn, because
there were Musulmans present, dared not speak plainly about his Master, but
managed by means of hints to communicate sundry matters, and also gave him
[the Russian consul] certain of the Bab's writings.' That this statement
is, in part at least, true is proved by the testimony of Dorn, who, in
describing a M.S. of one of the Bab's `Commentaries on the Names of God'
(which he calls `Qur'an der Babi') says, on p. 248 of vol. 8 of the
Bulletin de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg, that it
was `received directly from the Bab's own secretary, who, during his
imprisonment at Tabriz, placed it in European hands.'" (The
"Tarikh-i-Jadid," pp. 395-6.)