"حياة ومراسلات اللواء السير جون مالكوم، قائد فرسان وسام الطُهر، المبعوث السابق إلى بلاد فارس وحاكم بومباي؛ من رسائل ومذكرات غير منشورة. في مجلّدين. المجلد II." [‎٦‎١‎٧] (٦٥٤/٦٣٤)

CHARACTER.
men who still speak—of what he said, and what he did,
and how he looked, and love to recall his familiar image.
Time was when any member of his family might have
passed safely, under the escort of a single man, through
places where others would have required the protection
of a company of soldiers.
That he made for himself so enduring a place in the
hearts of the people is to be attributed, for the most part,
to his accessibility. His doors were always open, and to
high and low he was equally affable—nay, genial in his
manner. He was altogether above the littleness of
official exclusiveness and reserve. He gave himself no
airs. He was not the slave of forms and precedents. If
a timely joke would answer his purpose better than a
Government regulation, he made the joke and left the
code on the shelf. In a word, he gave full scope to the
honest impulses of a noble nature ; and if he was not, in
some respects, the model of an official man, I, for one,
think the better of him.
For no man was more devoted to the public service,
no man worked with a larger zeal, with more unweary
ing energy, or with a more absolute disregard of self. In
his duty prompt at every call, he passed from one pro
vince, or from one country to another, thinking as little
of his personal ease as of his personal interest, and gi\ m
himself up unstintingly and unwearyingly to the work
in hand, until he had brought it to a successful issue.
Whatsoever he undertook to do, he did with a full hear
and a full brain. He identified himself with his public
duties, and gave full measure overflowing of ^rvice to
the State; and he could never have done what dld ^
he had been in any wise a formalist, or had shrunk fr
personal responsibility. The duties upon "^ rlicl ,
employed were mostly of an exceptional charactei, a