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{102a} Mr Lipovzoff's unfortunate name was a great stumbling-block. Borrow spelt it many ways, varying from Lipoffsky to Lipofsoff. It has been thought advisable to adopt Mr Lipovzoff's OWN spelling of his name, in order to preserve some uniformity.
{104a} Minutes of the Editorial Sub-Committee, 29th July 1833.
{105a} Harriet Martineau's Autobiography.
{106a} Letter to his mother, 30th July 1833.
{107a} Letter to Rev. J. Jowett, 4th August 1833.
{107b} Letter to Rev. J. Jowett, 4th August 1833.
{108a} Borrow is always puzzling when concerned with dates. He writes to his mother telling her that he left on the 7th, and later gives the date, in a letter to Mr Jowett, as 24th July, O.S. (5th August). The 7th seems to be the correct date.
{108b} Letter to his mother.
{109a} "If I had my choice of all the cities of the world to live in, I would choose Saint Petersburg."--Wild Wales, page 665.
{110a} Letter to Rev. J. Jowett, undated: received 26th September 1833.
{111a} In a letter dated 3rd/15th August, the Prince wrote to Mr Venning at Norwich, "On returning thence, your son came to introduce to me the Englishman who has come over here about the translation of the Manchu Bible, and who brought with him your letter."--Memorials of John Venning, 1862.
{112a} Best known for his Grammar, written in German.
{112b} Nephew of J. C Adelung, the philologist.
{113a} Letter to Rev. J. Jowett, undated, but received 26th September 1833.
{114a} Letter to Rev. J. Jowett, 20th January/1st February 1834.
{114b} Letter to Rev. J. Jowett, 20th January/1st February 1834.
{114c} Letter to Rev. J. Jowett, 20th January/1st February 1834.
{115a} Letter to Rev. J. Jowett, 20th January/1st February 1834.
{115b} Letter to Rev. J. Jowett, 20th January/1st February 1834. Probably this means the New Testament only, as there was no intention of printing the Old Testament at that date.
{116a} In a letter to his mother, dated 1st/13th Feb., Borrow writes: "The Bible Society depended upon Dr Schmidt and the Russian translator Lipovzoff to manage this business [the obtaining of the official sanction], but neither the one nor the other would give himself the least trouble about the matter, or give me the slightest advice how to proceed."
{117a} Letter to Rev. J. Jowett, 4th/16th February 1834.
{118a} Letter to the Rev. J. Jowett, 20th Jan./1st Feb. 1834.
{118b} Letter to the Rev. J. Jowett, 20th Jan./1st Feb. 1834.
{118c} Letter to the Rev. F. Cunningham, 17th/29th Nov. 1834.
{119a} 1st/13th May 1834.
{121a} This spelling is adopted throughout for uniformity. Borrow writes Chiachta.
{121b} Letter to the Rev. J. Jowett, 4th/16th February 1834.
{121c} Letter to the Rev. J. Jowett, 4th/16th February 1834.
{121d} Letter to the Rev. J. Jowett, 4th/16th February 1834.
{123a} Letter to the Rev. J. Jowett, 15th/23rd April 1834.
{123b} In a letter dated 1st/13th May 1834.
{123c} A suburb of Norwich.
{126a} Mrs Borrow eventually received from Allday Kerrison 50 pounds, 11s. 1d., the amount realised from the sale of John's effects.
{126b} This was partly on account of the Bible Society for storage purposes. In the minutes of the Sub-Committee, 18th August 1834, there is a record of an advice having been received from Borrow that he had drawn "for 400 Roubles for one year's rent in advance for a suitable place of deposit for the Society's paper, etc., part of which had been received."
{126c} Letter to John P. Hasfeldt from Madrid, 29th April 1837.
{129a} In the minutes of the Sub-Committee, 18th August (N.S.) 1834, there is a note of Borrow having drawn 210 roubles "to pay for certain articles required to complete the Society's fount of Manchu type."
{132a} "My letters to my private friends have always been written during gleams of sunshine, and traced in the characters of hope."
{132b} "You may easily judge of the state of book-binding here by the fact that for every volume, great or small, printed in Russia, there