| Rupees. | |
| From Mr. Willock | 300 |
| From Dr. Moorcroft | 300 |
| From Government, 14th June 1827 to 30th June 1830 | 2926 |
| Two months at 100 rupees per month | 200 |
| For travelling expenses | 500 |
| Total | 4226 |
CHAPTER X.
Csoma asks for a passport in November 1835, enabling him to travel in Hindustan—Leaves Calcutta—His last letters to Mr. Prinsep—Return to Calcutta in 1837.
We have noticed already that four and a half years had passed since his arrival in Calcutta, before the result of Csoma’s literary labours could be brought to completion and published. This done, he made fresh plans for the further prosecution of his studies.
In answer to letters of Prince Eszterházy and of Mr. Döbrentei, he wrote in Latin, having made a spontaneous promise to Government, through Mr. Prinsep, to correspond with Europe in that language only; and in order to avoid every suspicion (remembering what had happened at Sabathú in 1825, which he had never forgotten), he sent all his letters open, to be forwarded by the secretary of the Asiatic Society to their destination.
On the 30th of September 1835 Mr. Döbrentei wrote to Csoma as follows: “Be so good as to inform us, in all sincerity, whether it is your wish that a public subscription be opened on your behalf. This would at least give an opportunity to the Hungarian nation to provide in a suitable manner for one of her sons, who, for the sake of her ancient history, is sacrificing himself on such a thorny path.”