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Excerpt from Calidore Miscellanea
The first of these, however, is not from Peacock's own pen. It is a paper of reminiscence, for which the Editor is indebted to the unsolicited kindness of Sir Edward Strachey, Bart, who, sixty years ago, saw something and heard more of the Peacock of the India House. The elder Strachey,'known to the readers of Carlyle as the subject of one of his ineffaceable etchings of men of marked person ality, has a place in history as one of the ablest home servants of the East India Company, who, but for some impatience of the official harness, might probably have risen to the highest place. He was on cordial terms with his colleague, Pea cock, and his son's reminiscences, as gracefully written as they were gracefully tendered, contribute something not only to their avowed purpose, but to the record of the great City house from which India was so long governed, which has not yet found an historian.
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