Frederick Locker-Lampson

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Excerpt from Frederick Locker-Lampson: A Character Sketch, With a Small Selection From Letters Addressed to Him and Bibliographical Notes on a Few of the Books Formerly in the Rowfant Library Although what I am doing is, on this occasion, being done in obedience to a strong, because an affectionate impulse, I feel uneasy about it. "It may be pardonable, " so my conscience argues with me, "to write at large and at leisure, and let those who will, read and grumble, but deliberately to select as your subject a friend and relation, with whom you enjoyed for some happy years the closest intimacy and the completest understanding, and to begin writing about him after a fashion which must, were he still alive, have created in a very sensitive breast, the liveliest amazement (to name no other emotion) seems to be a different thing from making free with Andrew Marvell, or William Hazlitt, or Charlotte Bronte, about whom (though this is between ourselves and not necessarily for publication) you knew no more than anybody else. Nor does the fact that your friend is dead appear to alter the case." Thus far, but not a line further, may an uneasy conscience be allowed to speak. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.