His admiration of the "Mysterious Mother" was of a piece with his thinking Gifford, and Rogers, greater poets than Wordsworth, and Coleridge.
Ever yours truly T.B.MACAULAY.
London: October 28, 1833.
Dear Hannah,--I wish to have Malkin as head of the Commission at Canton, and Grant seems now to be strongly bent on the same plan.

[Sir Benjamin Malkin, a college friend of Macaulay, was afterwards a judge in the Supreme Court at Calcutta.] Malkin is a man of singular temper, judgment, and firmness of nerve.

Danger and responsibility, instead of agitating and confusing him, always bring out whatever there is in him.
This was the reason of his great success at Cambridge.

He made a figure there far beyond his learning or his talents, though both his learning and his talents are highly respectable.

But the moment that he sate down to be examined, which is just the situation in which all other people, from natural flurry, do worse than at other times, he began to do his very best.