“Dear Mr.
Cadell,—Knowing how anxious you are for the ‘Life,’ I cannot help
writing you a few lines to tell you it is fairly begun, and Lockhart working as hard at it as ever you
could wish. He has been arranging it so long in his mind that, now fairly
commenced, he will not be long about it; and he has read to me, and continues
to do so, what he writes, and I am much mistaken if anything in our time will
come up to it in interest, style, or as a picture of manners just passing away.
I cannot speak enough of the interest he has contrived to give to the
genealogy, the least promising part, and you may believe the rest is not behind
hand.
| MR. CADELL | 115 |
