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I am a rather elderly man. The nature of my avocations for the last thirty years hasbrought me into more than ordinary contact with what would seem an interestingand somewhat singular set of men, of whom as yet nothing that I know of has everbeen written: -I mean the law-copyists or scriveners. I have known very many ofthem, professionally and privately, and if I pleased, could relate divers histories, atwhich good-natured gentlemen might smile, and sentimental souls might weep. ButI waive the biographies of all other scriveners for a few passages in the life ofBartleby, who was a scrivener of the strangest I ever saw or heard of. While of otherlaw-copyists I might write the complete life, of Bartleby nothing of that sort can bedone. I believe that no materials exist for a full and satisfactory biography of thisman. It is an irreparable loss to literature. Bartleby was one of those beings ofwhom nothing is ascertainable, except from the original sources, and in his casethose are very small. What my own astonished eyes saw of Bartleby, that is all Iknow of him, except, indeed, one vague report which will appear in the sequel.Ere introducing the scrivener, as he first appeared to me, it is fit I make somemention of myself, my employees, my business, my chambers, and generalsurroundings; because some such description is indispensable to an adequateunderstanding of the chief character about to be presented

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