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Further Notes respecting the late Csoma de Koros. By Lieut. Colonel 



Lloyd, and A. Campbell, Esq. Superintendent at Darjeeling. 



[The following letters have been kept hack from publication owing to circumstances, 

 which need not special detail. I should observe with reference to Lieut. Colonel 

 Lloyd's remark as to the absence of any notice of the deceased scholar's literary 

 labours in the Journal, that No. 124, contains a notice of his personal and literary 

 habits, embodied in a Report as to his death, from Mr. Campbell, with remarks ap- 

 pended by myself. I mention this for the facility of reference.] ifi 



With reference to the resolution of the Asiatic Society to place 

 Rs. 1000 at my disposal, for the erection of a monument over the grave 

 of the late Mr. Csoma de Koros, I have the honor to state, that in 

 consideration of the necessary delay and difficulty in procuring a suit- 

 able marble monument from Calcutta, I have had a plain pillar of sub- 

 stantial masonry erected to mark the spot, and I purpose placing a 

 simple tablet of stone in the pillar, with the date of his death, his 

 name, and age only, inscribed thereon. This, however, is not wholly the 

 manner in which I wish to see the Society's intentions fulfilled; I am 

 anxious that a marble monument, with a suitable inscription to com- 

 memorate the deceased, shall be placed in the Church at Darjeeling, 

 and to enable me to do so for the Society, if the proposal is approved, 

 I request to be furnished with the inscription which the Society may 

 consider the most appropriate. 



Since the death of de Koros, I have not ceased to hope, that some 

 member of the Society would furnish a connected account of his career 

 in the East. It is now more than a year and a half since we lost 

 him, yet we are without any such record in the Journal of the Society 

 to shew, that his labours were valuable to the literary association he so 

 earnestly studied to assist in its most important objects, as well as to 

 shew that his labours have been duly appreciated. I know that I am 

 not qualified by knowledge of the language and literature of Thibet, to do 

 justice to the subject, and I have not on that account attempted it ; but 

 in the belief that the Society will be better pleased to have an in- 

 complete notice of his labours, than be altogether without one, I have 

 compiled a note of his published contributions to the Asiatic Society 

 on the language and literature of Thibet, which is hereunto annexed. I 

 have also the pleasure to forward a copy of a Biographical sketch of the 



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