JUDSON, Ann Hasseltine.

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An Account of the American Baptist Mission to the Burman Empire: In a Series of Letters Addressed to a Gentleman in London. First British edition of this memoir by "the most influential missionary woman in American history" (Robert), bound with a first edition of John Snodgrass's key eyewitness narrative of the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-1826). One of the first American female missionaries to serve abroad, Judson spent over a decade in Burma and, during the war, successfully negotiated the release from captivity of her husband Adoniram.The Judsons were appointed by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1812 and travelled to Burma two years later. "With her translation of the Gospel of Matthew in 1819, Ann was the first person to translate any part of the Bible into Siamese (Thai). She also translated the Books of Daniel and Jonah into Burmese and wrote a Burmese catechism" (Robert). Her account, published in America as A Particular Relation of the American Baptist Mission to the Burman Empire, was among the first histories of an American mission.Snodgrass served as the military secretary to Sir Archibald Campbell, whose conduct of the campaign he ardently defended in his narrative. The First Anglo-Burmese war ended with the British annexation of Assam, Arakan, and the coast of Tenasserim. British losses were heavy and the indemnity demanded of the Burmese punitive.

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