"Much as I like and respect him, I must say he is "not all there". Whether it is religion, or vanity, or softening of the brain—I don't know, but he seems to be alternately arrogant and slavish, vain and humble, in his senses and out of them. It's a great pity."
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Robert Hart to James Campbell (11 August 1880), quoted in Immanuel C. Y. Hsü, The Ili Crisis: A Study of Sino-Russian Diplomacy 1871–1881 (1965), p. 133
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