From the favourable manner in which the memoir has been received - the work having been carried through six large editions in less than twelve months - I have endeavoured to render it still more acceptable by a careful revision, and more especially by giving a few additional particulars concerning my brother's early life (including an account of his introduction to sir walter scott), gathered chiefly from a volume of memoranda recently found in his library. W. C.

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