Excerpt from The Council of the Navy Records Society 1897-8
The family of the late Admiral Sir William Fanshawe Martin have done me the honour, at the request of the Council of the Society, to entrust me with the papers of their grandfather, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thomas Byam Martin, G.C.B., in the view of my making a selection from them for the use of the Society. The task, however interesting and instructive, has not been an easy one. The papers fill a dozen large volumes, in quarto and folio, and comprise several hundreds of letters - unarranged, dealing with a great variety of subjects, and many of them in a fragmentary condition. The labour of reading through these, and selecting those which appeared suitable for my purpose, has been very great, but has left me with an exceedingly high opinion of Martin, not only as a naval officer, but also as a statesman, diplomatist, and administrator; abundantly gifted, too, with the tact and temper so necessary when dealing with allies, and with the military or other branches of the public service.
In reducing this great mass of material to order, it seemed to me that three volumes would be necessary to do justice to it.
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