{49a} Borrow himself gave the sum as "eighteen-pence a page." The books themselves apparently did not become the property of the reviewer.--The Romany Rye, page 324.

{49b} Borrow says that he demanded lives of people who had never lived, and cancelled others that Borrow had prepared with great care, because be considered them as "drugs."--Lavengro, pages 245-6.

{50a} "'Sir,' said he, 'you know nothing of German; I have shown your translation of the first chapter of my Philosophy to several Germans: it is utterly unintelligible to them.' 'Did they see the Philosophy?' I replied. 'They did, sir, but they did not profess to understand English.' 'No more do I,' I replied, 'if the Philosophy be English.'"--Lavengro, page 254.

{50b} A German edition of the work appeared in Stuttgart in 1826.

{52a} This sentence is quoted in The Gypsies of Spain as a heading to the section "On Robber Language," page 335.

{52b} Lavengro, pages 216-7.

{52c} Lavengro, page 271.

{53a} Faustus: His Life, Death and Descent into Hell. Translated from the German. London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1825, pages xxii., 251. Coloured Plate.

{53b} A letter from Borrow to the publishers, which Dr Knapp quotes, and dates 15th September 1825, but without giving his reasons, was written from Norwich, and runs:

Dear Sir, -

As your bill will become payable in a few days, I am willing to take thirty copies of Faustus instead of the money. The book has been BURNT in both the libraries here, and, as it has been talked about, I may, perhaps, be able to dispose of some in the course of a year or so.--Yours, G. BORROW.

{55a} Lavengro, page 310.

{55b} The Romany Rye, Appendix, page 303.

{57a} Probably it was only a portion of the whole amount of 50 pounds that Borrow drew after the completion of the work. One thing is assured, that Sir Richard Phillips was too astute a man to pay the whole amount before the completion of the work.

{58a} Dr Knapp's Life of George Borrow, i., page 141.

{60a} Dr Knapp gives the date as the 22nd; but Mr John Sampson makes the date the 24th, which seems more likely to be correct.

{61a} The Athenaeum, 25th March 1899.

{61b} Lavengro, page 362.

{62a} Lavengro, page 362.

{62b} Lavengro, page 374.

{63a} Lavengro, pages 431-2.

{64a} Lavengro, page 451.

{64b} Mr Watts-Dunton in a review of Dr Knapp's Life of Borrow says that she "was really an East-Anglian road-girl of the finest type, known to the Boswells, and remembered not many years ago."-- Athenaeum, 25th March 1899.

{66a} Mr Petulengro is made to say the "Flying Tinker."

{66b} Dr Knapp sees in the account of Murtagh's story of his travels Barrow's own adventures during 1826-7, but there is no evidence in support of this theory. Another contention of Dr Knapp's is more likely correct, viz., that the story of Finn MacCoul was that told him by Cronan the Cornish guide during the excursion to Land's End.

{67a} It will be remembered that in The Romany Rye Borrow takes his horse to the Swan Inn at Stafford, meets his postilion friend and is introduced by him to the landlord, with the result that he arranges to act as "general superintendent of the yard," and keep the hay and corn account. In return he and his horse are to be fed and lodged. Here Borrow encounters Francis Ardry, on his way to see the dog and lion fight at Warwick, and the man in black.

{67b} The Gypsies of Spain, page 360.

{68a} Introduction to The Romany Rye in The Little Library, Methuen & Co., Ltd.

{69a} The Romany Rye, page 162.

{69b} The Romany Rye, page 162.

{69c} The Romany Rye, page 50.

{69d} "Let but the will of a human being be turned to any particular object, and it is ten to one that sooner or later he achieves it."-- Lavengro, page 16.

{73a} They appeared as Romantic Ballads, translated from the Danish, and Miscellaneous Pieces, by George Borrow. Norwich. S. Wilkin, 1826. Included in the volume were translations from the Kiaempe Viser and from Oehlenschlaeger.

{74a} Correspondence and Table-Talk of B. R. Haydon. London, 1876. The position of the letter in the Haydon Journal is between November 1825 and January 1826; but it is more likely that it was written some months later. Unfortunately, Borrow's portrait cannot be traced in any of Haydon's pictures.

{75a} Lavengro, page 9.

{75b} There was a tradition that Borrow became a foreign correspondent for the Morning Herald, and it was in this capacity that he travelled on the Continent in 1826-7; but Dr Knapp clearly showed that such a theory was untenable.

{75c} The Gypsies of Spain, page 11.

{75d} The Bible in Spain, page 219.

{75e} Letter to his mother, August 1833.

{75f} The Bible in Spain, page 172.

{75g} The Gypsies of Spain, page 31.

{76a} The Bible in Spain, page 703.

{76b} The Bible in Spain, page 67.

{76c} The Gypsies of Spain, page 19.

{76d} Excursions Along the Shores of the Mediterranean, by Lt.-Col. E. H. D. E. Napier. London, 1842.

{76e} The Gypsies of Spain, pages 10-11.

{76f} Patteran, or Patrin; a gypsy method of indicating by means of grass, leaves, or a mark in the dust to those behind the direction taken by the main body.

{76g} The Gypsies of Spain, page 31.

{77a} If he went abroad, he certainly did so without obtaining a passport from the Foreign Office. The only passports issued to him between the years 1825-1840 were:

27th July 1833, to St Petersburg; 2nd November 1836 and 20th December 1838, to Spain,

as far as the F. O. Registers show.

{77b} Dr Knapp takes Borrow's statement, made 29th March 1839, "I have been three times imprisoned and once on the point of being shot," as indicating that he was imprisoned at Pamplona in 1826. The imprisonments were September 1837, Finisterre; May 1838, Madrid; and another unknown. The occasion on which he was nearly shot, which may be assumed to be connected with one of the imprisonments (otherwise he was more than "once nearly shot"), was at Finisterre, when he, with his guide, was seized as a Carlist spy "by the fishermen of the place, who determined at first on shooting us." (Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 15th September 1837.)

{78a} The incident is given in Lavengro under date of 1818, when Marshland Shales was fifteen years old. It was not, however, until 1827 that he appeared at the Norwich Horse Fair and was put up for auction. "Such a horse as this we shall never see again; a pity that he is so old," was the opinion of those who lifted their hats as a token of respect.

{79a} This and subsequent letters from Borrow to Sir John Bowring not specially acknowledged have been courteously placed at the writer's disposal by Mr Wilfred J. Bowring, Sir John Bowring's grandson.

{81a} In The Monthly Review, March 1830, there appeared among the literary announcements a paragraph to the same effect.

{83a} From the original draft of his letter of 20th May to Dr Bowring, omitted from the letter itself.

{86a} Mr Thomas Seccombe in Bookman, February 1902.

{86b} It is only fair to add that Mr Seccombe wrote without having seen the correspondence quoted from above. His words have been given as representing the opinion held by most people regarding the Borrow- Bowring dispute. It has been said that Bowring sought to suck Borrow's brains; it would appear, however, that Borrow strove rather to make every possible use that he could of Bowring.

{87a} Preface to The Sleeping Bard, 1860.

{87b} Ibid.

{88a} The Bible in Spain, page 201.