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Preface to Second Edition.
The Memoir has been compiled from the best sources of information that could be reached, and it is hoped that it will communicate all the knowledge respecting the Poet's history which the reader will be anxious to obtain.
Mr Motherwell left behind him many fragmentary pieces of poetry, in different stages of advancement, some being more and some less finished; and should the present enterprise hold out any encouragement for the adoption of such a course, they may be given to the world at some future time.
December, 1846.
