Materials for the life of Mountstuart Elphinstone are abundant. In 1861, two years after his death, Sir T.E. Colebrooke, Bart., who had known him intimately during his later years, contributed an obituary of exceptional length and authority to the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (Old Series, xxviii, 221 sq.). The whole of his voluminous papers – journals, letters, dispatches, and minutes – were afterwards entrusted to Sir T.E. Colebrooke, for the purpose ...
