Edward Granville Browne
Orientalist Edward Granville Browne received copies of the trial documents from , the first French Baha'i. A facsimile of the recantation is published in Browne's "Materials for the Study of the Babi Religion", where he states, "[The document], unsigned and undated, was claimed to be in the Báb's handwriting and consists of a complete recantation and renunciation of any superhuman claim which he may have advanced or have appeared to advance. There is nothing to show to whom it is addressed, or whether it is the recantation referred to in the last paragraph of the [government report] or another. The handwriting, though graceful, is not easily legible..." This is a translation of the relevant section of the document: