But when we consider that he was an American we must admit that England treated him very well.

He had, I suppose, the most welcome admission to all their scientific journals.

In his time he was employed on the very best and most important work done in England in his line.

He was professor of Hindostanee and of Hindoo law and Indian jurisprudence in King's College in London, also of the Sanscrit language and literature, and Indian history and geography.

In April, 1865, he was made Librarian of the India Office, having in his charge the best collection of Oriental manuscripts in the world, twenty thousand in number.
While the catalogues of the libraries show a large number of books published under his name, he said that the greater part of his work had been anonymous.
In 1893 he wrote to a London magazine: "Although I have lived away from America upwards of forty-six years, I feel to this hour, that in writing English I am writing a foreign language." Next in rank to Child, Lane, Bigelow and Short was Judge Soule.
Next to him came George Cheyne Shattuck Choate, one of the well-known family of brothers of that name, sons of a Salem physician.