{354a} In the Appendix to The Romany Rye Borrow wrote, "Having the proper pride of a gentleman and a scholar, he did not, in the year '43, choose to permit himself to be exhibited and made a zany of in London." Page 355.

{355a} Letters to John Murray, 27th Jan. and 13th March, 1843.

{355b} Letters to John Murray, 27th Jan. and 13th March, 1843.

{355c} Borrow wrote later on that he was "a sincere member of the old-fashioned Church of England, in which he believes there is more religion, and consequently less cant, than in any other Church in the world" (The Romany Rye, page 346). On another occasion he gave the following reason for his adherence to it: "Because I believe it is the best religion to get to heaven by" (Wild Wales, page 520).

{356a} No trace can be found among the Bible Society Records of any such translation.

{357a} This portrait has sometimes been ascribed to Thomas Phillips, R.A., in error.

{360a} Memories of Old Friends (1835-1871). London 1882.

{360b} Memories of Eighty Years, page 164.

{360c} E[lizabeth] H[arvey] in The Eastern Daily Press, 1st Oct. 1892.

{360d} E[lizabeth] H[arvey] in The Eastern Daily Express, 1st Oct. 1892.

{361a} Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, ed. by C. E. Smith, 1895.

{362a} The Romany Rye, page 344.

{362b} Dr Knapp's Life of George Borrow, ii. 44.

{362c} Hungary in 1851. By Charles L. Brace.

{363a} Mrs Borrow to John Murray, 4th June 1844.

{364a} Memoirs, C. G. Leland, 1893.

{365a} Both these MSS. were acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum in 1892 by purchase. The Gypsy Vocabulary runs to fifty-four Folios and the Bohemian Grammar to seventeen Folios.

{365b} 24th April 1841.

{365c} Dr Knapp's Life of George Borrow, ii. page 5.

{367a} As late even as 13th March 1851, Dr Hake wrote to Mrs Borrow: "He [Borrow] had better carry on his biography in three more volumes."

{372a} Mr A. Egmont Hake in Athenaeum, 13th Aug. 1881.

{374a} There is something inexplicable about these dates. On 6th November Borrow agrees to alter a passage that in the 14th of the previous July he refers to as already amended.

{375a} Vestiges of Borrow: Some Personal Reminiscences, The Globe, 21st July 1896.

{376a} Mr A. Egmont Hake in Athenaeum, 13th Aug. 1881.

{376b} The Gypsies of Spain, page 287.

{376c} "His sympathies were confined to the gypsies. Where he came they followed. Where he settled, there they pitched their greasy and horribly smelling camps. It pleased him to be called their King. He was their Bard also, and wrote songs for them in that language of theirs which he professed to consider not only the first, but the finest of the human modes of speech. He liked to stretch himself large and loose-limbed before the wood fires of their encampment and watch their graceful movements among the tents" (Vestiges of Borrow: Some Personal Reminiscences, Globe, 21st July 1896).

{376d} This was said in the presence of Mr F. G. Bowring, son of Dr Bowring.

{378a} Mr F. J. Bowring writes: "I was myself present at Borrow's last call, when he came to take tea AS USUAL, and not a word of the kind [as given in the Appendix], was delivered."

{378b} There is no record of any correspondence with Borrow among the Museum Archives. Dr F. G. Kenyon, C.B., to whom I am indebted for this information, suggests that the communications may have been verbal.

{379a} Memoirs of Eighty Years. By Dr Gordon Hake, 1892.

{380a} Annals of the Harford Family. Privately printed, 1909. Mr Theodore Watts-Dunton, in the Athenaeum, 25th March 1899, has been successful in giving a convincing picture of Borrow: "As to his countenance," he writes, "'noble' is the only word that can be used to describe it. The silvery whiteness of the thick crop of hair seemed to add in a remarkable way to the beauty of the hairless face, but also it gave a strangeness to it, and this strangeness was intensified by a certain incongruity between the features (perfect Roman-Greek in type), and the Scandinavian complexion, luminous and sometimes rosy as an English girl's. An increased intensity was lent by the fair skin to the dark lustre of the eyes. What struck the observer, therefore, was not the beauty but the strangeness of the man's appearance."

{380b} Memoirs of Eighty Years. By Dr Gordon Hake, 1892.

{381a} E[lizabeth] H[arvey] in The Eastern Daily Press, 1st Oct. 1892.

{381b} The story is narrated by Dr Augustus Jessopp in the Athenaeum, 8th July 1893.

{381c} Wild Wales, page 487.

{381d} Wild Wales, page 36 et seq.

{382a} Memoirs of Eighty Years. By Dr Gordon Hake, 1892.

{383a} Memoirs of Eighty Years. By Dr Gordon Hake, 1892.

{383b} Memoirs of Eighty Years. By Dr Gordon Hake, 1892.

{384a} George Borrow in East Anglia. W. A. Dutt.

{384b} Memoirs of Eighty Years. By Dr Gordon Hake, 1892.

{385a} William Bodham Donne and His Friends. By Catherine B. Johnson.

{385b} William Whewell (1794-1866), Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1848-66; Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, 1843-56; secured in 1847 the election of the Prince Consort as Chancellor; enlarged the buildings of Trinity College and founded professorship and scholarships for international law. Published and edited many works on natural and mathematical science, philosophy, theology and sermons.

{386a} Mr John Murray in Good Words.

{390a} To John Murray; the letter is in Mrs Borrow's hand but drafted by Borrow himself, 29th Jan. 1855.

{391a} 16th April 1845.

{391b} See post.

{393a} The Romany Rye, page 338.

{393b} Life of Frances Power Cable, by herself.

{393c} Borrow goes on to an anti-climax when he states that he believes him [Scott] to have been by far the greatest [poet], with perhaps the exception of Mickiewicz, who only wrote for unfortunate Poland, that Europe has given birth to during the last hundred years."

{393d} The Romany Rye, pages 344-5.

{393e} Romano Lavo-Lil, page 274.

{393f} The Romany Rye, page 134.

{394a} Letter from Borrow to Dr Usoz, 22nd Feb. 1839.

{394b} Macmillan's Magazine, vol. 45.

{396a} "Notes upon George Borrow" prefaced to an edition of Lavengro. Ward, Lock & Co.

{398a} Mr W. Elvin in the Athenaeum, 6th Aug. 1881.

{399a} John Wilson Croker (1780-1857): Politician and Essayist; friend of Canning and Peel. At one time Temporary Chief Secretary for Ireland and later Secretary of the Admiralty. Supposed to have been the original of Rigby in Disraeli's Coningsby.

{399b} Mr Theodore Watts-Dunton, "Notes upon George Borrow" prefaced to an edition of Lavengro. Ward, Lock & Co.

{400a} The Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell in Obiter Dicta, and Series, 1887.

{400b} Francis Hindes Groome in Bookman, May 1899.

{404a} "Swimming is a noble exercise, but it certainly does not tend to mortify either the flesh or the spirit."--The Bible in Spain, page 688.

{404b} Mr John Murray in Good Words.

{404c} In The Eastern Daily Press, 1st October 1892.

{405a} Borrow's reference is to the county motto, "One and All."

{407a} The Life of George Borrow, by Dr Knapp, ii., 79-80.