... There has been a good deal of blackwashing and whitewashing of Sir Henry Morgan, beginning in his own lifetime, but there is none of either in the astonishing tribute paid to him by a whole family of Lindsays and published in a limited edition by the Fanfrolico Press. This 'account biographical and informative' of his latter days, is a high-spirited application of the methods of Mr Lytton Strachey to very different material than the life of Queen Victoria. It is biography on two persons, now Morgan himself looking wild-eyed from his bed through his fiery, murky past, now his biographer, somehow contemporaneous and more intimate than Morgan could be with himself.

Arthur Ransome in The Observer, 17 Aug 1930; reproduced in Christina Hardyment, Ransome on blue water sailing (1999), pp. 62-64.