Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2

by Frederick Marryat

FOOTNOTES: [1] In dwelling upon the autobiographical nature of the incident, in Frank Mildmay, it is necessary to guard against the supposition that Marryat's character in any way resembled his hero's. See further Preface to F M.

PREFATORY NOTE

TO

PETER SIMPLE AND THE THREE CUTTERS

From Nodes Ambrosianæ:—

Shepherd [HOGG]. Did Marry yacht write Peter Simple? Peter Simple in his ain way's as gude's Parson Adams … He that invented Peter Simple's a Sea-Fieldin'.

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Peter Simple is printed from the first edition, in three volumes. Saunders and Otley, 1834.

The Three Cutters is printed from the first edition. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1836.

The Three Cutters was first published in one volume with The Pirate, containing a portrait of Marryat—Drawn by W. Behnes, engraved by H. Cook; and "illustrated with twenty splendid engravings from drawings by Clarkson Stanfield, Esq., R.A."