Excerpt from The Life and Correspondence of Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith, G. C. B, Vol. 1 of 2
The circumstance which led to my undertaking the following work was purely accidental, and quite unexpected by me, as I never had an opportunity of becoming personally acquainted with the distinguished subject of the Memoir. In the early part of the present year, Mr. Bentley, the publisher, called upon me to propose that I should write the Life with a Selection from the Correspondence of Sir W. Sidney Smith, for which he conceived me to be well qualified. Mr. Bentley, it appeared, had purchased a vast mass of original autograph manuscripts and papers relating to this subject, and considering from the nature of the materials that a work of public interest might be produced from them, accordingly placed them in my hands.
After a laborious examination of this mass of unarranged papers, I discovered that there was scarcely sufficient available matter to carry out the proposed design.
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