Attempts to break up the mission seminary failed, because neither scholars nor parents would obey the mandate of the vakeel to withdraw from connection with the missionaries.
The Rev.Henry J.Van Lennep and wife joined the mission in April, 1840, and were stationed at Smyrna.

Mrs.Van Lennep lived only till the following September.

The Rev.Josiah Peabody and wife became the associates of Mr.and Mrs.Jackson, at Erzroom, in the following year; and in that year Mr.Ladd was transferred from Cyprus to Broosa.

Mr.Hallock, the missionary printer at Smyrna, returned to the United States, but continued to manufacture Arabic and Syriac types for the printing establishments in the Syrian and Nestorian missions.

The printing at Smyrna, during this year, was equivalent to 10,843,704 pages duodecimo; and the pages printed at that establishment from the beginning, had been 51,910,260.