The Life of George Borrow [225]
{335a} A Publisher and His Friends. Samuel Smiles.
{335b} Richard Ford, 1796-1858. Critic and author. Spent several years in touring about Spain on horseback. Published in 1845, Hand- Book for Travellers in Spain. Contributed to the Edinburgh, Quarterly, and Westminster Reviews from 1837.
{335c} The Letters of Richard Ford, 1797-1858. Ed. R. E. Prothero, M.V.O., 1905.
{336a} Dr. Knapp points out that the title is inaccurate, there being no such word as "Zincali." It should be "Zincale."
{336b} The Letters of Richard Ford, 1797-1858. Ed. R. E. Prothero, M.V.O., 1905.
{337a} The Gypsies of Spain, page 1. As the current edition of The Zincali has been retitled The Gypsies of Spain, reference is made to it throughout this work under that title and to the latest edition.
{337b} The Gypsies of Spain, page 32.
{338a} The Gypsies of Spain, page 81.
{338b} Ibid., page 186.
{338c} Ibid., page 283.
{339a} The Gypsies of Spain, page 274.
{340a} Introduction to Lavengro. The Little Library, Methuen, 2 vols., 1, xxiii.-xxiv. C. G. Leland expressed himself to the same effect.
{340b} Academy, 13th July 1874.
{340c} Wild Wales, page 186.
{340d} The Bible in Spain, page 64.
{341a} Lavengro, page 81.
{343a} Ford to John Murray. The Letters of Richard Ford, 1797-1858. Ed. R. E. Prothero, M.V.O., 1905.
{344a} Ford to John Murray. The Letters of Richard Ford, 1797-1858. Ed. R. E. Prothero, M.V.O., 1905.
{347a} Dr Knapp's Life of George Borrow.
{349a} The Letters of Richard Ford, 1797-1858. Edited, R. E. Prothero, M.V.O., 1905.
{352a} Times, 12th April 1843, Hansard's summary reads: "It might have been said, to Mr Borrow with respect to Spain, that it would be impossible to distribute the Bible in that country in consequence of the danger of offending the prejudices which prevail there; yet he, a private individual, by showing some zeal in what he believed to be right, succeeded in triumphing over many obstacles."
{353a} This is obviously the letter that Borrow paraphrases at the end of Chapter XLII. of The Bible in Spain.
{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