May 20, 2021
Perhaps, by this time, at least the outline of a series of portraits of Marryat will have clarified: as a boy rebellious, promising, wilful; as subordinate officer, bold to the point of recklessness; as commander, enterprising and clever; as friend and father, attractive; as husband, tried and trying—and, throughout life, energetic beyond the ordinary, gifted in diverse ways, never common-place, uncertain in temper and behaviour, and, like many other men and women, tending to overvalue the past as it receded.
— Oliver Warner, Captain Marryat: A Rediscovery
Captain Frederick Marryat (1792–1848), by E. Dixon (active c.1830–1839)