Note 978 — BOOK V. BIOGRAPHY.
Reading edition
Clarke (E. D.) (Life by Otter, vol. ii. p. 15) refers to a letter from Malthus, asking about the Foundling Hospital at St. Petersburg (date March 1800). Cf. ibid., p. 39: “As for Malthus, tell him he is not worth writing to. He is wrapped up in other matters and obliterating all traces of his pilgrimage.... He is a great deal trop de plomb pour un tourist” [sic]. So he draws on Mackintosh when the latter is in India, in 1804. See Mackintosh’s Life (1836), p. 215.