Excerpt from The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart, Vol. 1 of 2: From Abbotsford and Milton Lockhart Mss; And Other Original Sources This Life of Mr. Lockhart has been compiled under many difficulties, some of which I foresaw, while others I did not anticipate. The book grew out of the publisher's wish that I should prepare for him an edition of Mr. Lockhart's "Life of Sir Walter Scott." An introductory chapter on the author of that great work seemed desirable, and the chapter swelled into a biography of Mr. Lockhart. The book had not been in hand for more than two or three months, when I found that there were impediments which a fuller knowledge of Mr. Lockhart's professional career would have taught me to anticipate. As regards his relations with Mr. John Wilson Croker, and with the Quarterly Review, documents exist which, perhaps, may some day be given to the world. Their absence from this work is touched on later, in the appropriate place. 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.