"I have had much pleasure in editing the following Memoir of my friend Mr. Nasmyth. Some twenty years since (in April 1863), when I applied to him for information respecting his mechanical inventions, he replied: "My life presents no striking or remarkable incidents, and would, I fear, prove but a tame narrative..."" Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии издания 1883 года (издательство "John Murray"). Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге James Nasmyth, engineer: an autobiography (Nasmyth, James)