The Life of George Borrow [213]
Magazine, July 1824.
{46a} It appeared in six volumes.
{46b} The work when completed contained accounts of over 400 trials.
{46c} It appeared on 19th March following.
{46d} Lavengro, page 210.
{47a} The picture was duly painted in the Heroic manner, the artist lending to the ex-mayor, for some reason or other, his own unheroically short legs. Haydon received his fee of a hundred guineas, and the picture now hangs in St Andrew's Hall, Norwich.
{48a} Letter from Roger Kerrison to John Borrow, 28th May 1824.
{48b} Memoirs, C. G. Leland 1893.
{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
{46a} It appeared in six volumes.
{46b} The work when completed contained accounts of over 400 trials.
{46c} It appeared on 19th March following.
{46d} Lavengro, page 210.
{47a} The picture was duly painted in the Heroic manner, the artist lending to the ex-mayor, for some reason or other, his own unheroically short legs. Haydon received his fee of a hundred guineas, and the picture now hangs in St Andrew's Hall, Norwich.
{48a} Letter from Roger Kerrison to John Borrow, 28th May 1824.
{48b} Memoirs, C. G. Leland 1893.
{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