'The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir John Malcolm, G.C.B., late envoy to Persia, and governor of Bombay; from unpublished letters and journals. In two volumes. Vol. II.' [497] (514/654)
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MALCOLM ON SHIP-BOARD.
497
them, too, whom he associated in his own literary under
takings. At this time Malcolm was writing the Life of
Lord Clive. His friend, Lord Powis, had lent him the
family papers for this purpose, and he thought that he
might turn the leisure afforded to him by the long sea-
voyage to profitable account, by digesting his materials,
and commencing the actual composition of the biography.
He employed some of his young friends in copying his
manuscripts—and I have often thought that if Eawlinson
was so employed, it is not difficult to conjecture where
he took his first lessons in the art of deciphering strange
hieroglyphics.*
Malcolm's intellectual activity was of a kind that under
no circumstances ever slept. Even when the motion of
the vessel was so disturbing that he could not sit at his
desk, he would lie upon the deck with a pencil and a
manuscript volume in his hand; and, in spite of the
qualms of sea-sickness (for he was but an indifferent sailor),
write pleasant verses to his children ; or if it were the
Sabbath, paraphrase the Psalms, or the Book of Job. He
always put aside, on the seventh day, his ordinary literary
work; but he took his intellectual exercise all the same,
by turning the Scriptures into verse. Some of these
paraphrases he afterwards printed at Bombay.
On the 26th of .October, 1827, Sir John Malcolm
arrived at Bombay. His old friend, Mountstuart Elphin-
stone, whom he was succeeding, and Sir Thomas Brad
ford, the Commander-in-Chief, had come out to welcome
him before the ship cast anchor ; and he was greeted, on
When a few months ago, in the
Library of Trinity College, Cambridge,
the accomplished master of that college
gave directions for the Babylonian Cy-
hiider (an unique specimen of the reign
ot Nergal-shar-ezer), -which Malcolm
had presented to the library, to be
packed and sent to Rawlinson, that
vol. n. \ 2
he might decipher the characters on
its surface, it was interesting to think
of this old connexion between the two
eminent men, and of the pleasure it
would have given to Malcolm to know
that his sometime pupil had become
the most distinguished Orientalist of
the age.
K
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The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir John Malcolm, G.C.B., late envoy to Persia, and governor of Bombay; from unpublished letters and journals. In two volumes. Vol. II.
Publication Details: London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 65 Cornhill ; Bombay : Smith, Taylor, and Co., MDCCCLVI [1856] C. Whiting, Beaufort House, Strand.
Notes: Printer's name from colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. . Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references.
Physical Description: vi, 631, [1] p., 1 port. ; 23 cm. (8º)
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