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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Letters to his mother, Ann Borrow + and Other Correspondents + + +Author: George Borrow + +Editor: Thomas Wise + +Release Date: May 13, 2009 [eBook #28784] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LETTERS TO HIS MOTHER, ANN +BORROW*** +</pre> +<p>Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David +Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Norfolk and +Norwich Millennium Library, UK, for kindly supplying the images +from which this transcription was made.</p> +<h1>LETTERS<br /> +<span class="smcap">to his mother</span><br /> +ANN BORROW<br /> +<span class="smcap">and other correspondents</span></h1> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">by</span><br /> +GEORGE BORROW</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="smcap">London</span>:<br /> +<span class="smcap">printed for private circulation</span><br /> +1913</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><!-- page 4--><a +name="page4"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 4</span><i>Copyright in +the United States of America</i><br /> +<i>by Houghton</i>, <i>Mifflin & Co. for Clement +Shorter</i>.</p> +<h2><!-- page 5--><a name="page5"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +5</span>LETTERS TO ANN BORROW<br /> +<span class="smcap">and other correspondents</span></h2> +<h3><span class="smcap">Letter</span> I.<br /> +<i>To</i> <span class="smcap">Ann Borrow</span>.</h3> +<p style="text-align: right"><span class="smcap">Spain</span>,<br +/> +[<i>Post-mark February</i> 9<i>th</i>, 1838.]</p> +<p><span class="smcap">My Dear Mama</span>,</p> +<p>As I am afraid that you may not have received my last letter +in consequence of several couriers having been stopped, I write +to inform you that I am quite well.</p> +<p>I have been in some difficulties. I was selling so many +Testaments that the Priests became alarmed, and prevailed on the +government to <!-- page 6--><a name="page6"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 6</span>put a stop to my selling any +more. They were likewise talking of prosecuting me as a +Witch, but they have thought better of it.</p> +<p>I hear it is very cold in England. Pray take care of +yourself. I shall send you more in a few weeks.</p> +<p style="text-align: right">God bless you,<br /> +My Dear Mama,<br /> +G. B.</p> +<h3><!-- page 7--><a name="page7"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +7</span>Letter II.<br /> +<i>To</i> A Correspondent.</h3> +<p style="text-align: right"><span +class="smcap">Oulton</span>,<br /> +<span class="smcap">Lowestoft</span>,<br /> +<span class="smcap">Suffolk</span>.<br /> +<i>August</i> 11<i>th</i>, 1843.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">My Dear Sir</span>,</p> +<p>Many thanks for your interesting and kind letter, in which you +do me the honour to ask my opinion respecting the pedigree of +your island goblin, <i>le feu follet Belenger</i>; that opinion I +cheerfully give, with a promise that it is only an opinion; in +hunting for the etymons of these fairy names we can scarcely +expect to arrive at any thing like certainty.</p> +<p>I suppose you are aware that the name of Bilenger, or +Billinger, is of occasional though by no means frequent +occurrence both in England <!-- page 8--><a +name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 8</span>and +France. You have heard of Billings-gate, and of +Billing-ham, the unfortunate assassin of poor Percival. +Likewise of Billing-ton, all modifications of the same root: +Belingart, Bilings-home or Billing-ston. But what is +Billin<i>ger</i>? Clearly that which is connected some way +or other with Billing. You will find <i>ger</i>, or +something like it, in most European +tongues—Boulan<i>ger</i>, horolo<i>ger</i>, tal<i>ker</i> +wal<i>ker</i>, ba<i>ker</i>, bre<i>wer</i>, beg<i>gar</i>. +In Welsh it is of frequent occurrence in the shape of <i>ur</i> +or <i>gwr</i>—hin<i>ur</i> (an elder), her<i>wr</i> (a +prow<i>ler</i>); in Russian the ger, gwr, ur, er, appears in the +shape of <i>ik</i> or <i>k</i>—Sapojgn<i>ik</i>, a +shoemaker, Chinobu<i>ik</i>, a man possessed of rank. The +root of all these, as well as of <i>or</i> in Senator, victor, +etc., is the same as <i>ker</i> or <i>kir</i>; which means, Lord, +master, maker, doer, possessor of something or connected with +something.</p> +<p>We want now to come at the meaning of Beling or Billing, which +probably means some <!-- page 9--><a name="page9"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 9</span>action, or some moral or personal +attribute. Bolvile in Anglo-Saxon means honest, Danish +Bollig; Wallen, in German, to wanken or move restlessly about; +Baylan, in Spanish, to dance, connected with which are to whirl, +to fling, and possibly Walloon and Fleming.</p> +<p>Belenger therefore may mean a Billiger or honest fellow, or it +may mean a Walter-<i>ger</i>, a whirl<i>enger</i>, a flinger or +something connected with restless motion.</p> +<p>Allow me to draw your attention to the word “Will” +in the English word “Will of the wisp.” +It must not be supposed that this “Will” is the +abbreviation of William; it is pure Danish, “Vild,” +pronounced “will,” and signifies wild, “Vilden +Visk; Vilden Visk,” the wild or moving wisp. I can +adduce another instance of the corruption of the Danish +“vild” into “will.” The rustics of +this part of England are in the habit of saying “they are +led will” (vild or wild), <!-- page 10--><a +name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 10</span>when from +intoxication or some other cause they are bewildered at night and +cannot find their way home. This expression is clearly from +the old Norse or Danish. I am not at all certain that +“Bil” in Bilinger may not be this same +“will” or “Vild,” and that the word may +not be a corruption of Vilden, old or elder, wild or flying +fire.</p> +<p>It has likewise occurred to me that Bilinger may be derived +from “Volundr,” the worship of the blacksmith or +Northern Vulcan.</p> +<p style="text-align: right">[<span class="smcap">George +Borrow</span>.]</p> +<h3><!-- page 11--><a name="page11"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +11</span><span class="smcap">Letter III</span>.<br /> +<i>To</i> <span class="smcap">Mary Borrow</span>.</h3> +<p style="text-align: right">Constantinople.<br /> +<i>September</i> 16<i>th</i>, 1844.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">My Darling Carreta</span>,</p> +<p>I am about to leave Constantinople and to return home. I +have given up the idea of going to Russia. I find that if I +go to Odessa I shall have to remain in quarantine for fourteen +days, which I have no inclination to do; I am moreover anxious to +get home, being quite tired of wandering, and desirous of being +once more with my loved ones.</p> +<p>This is a most interesting place, but unfortunately it is +extremely dear. The Turks <!-- page 12--><a +name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 12</span>have no inns, +and I am here at an English one, at which, though everything is +comfortable, the prices are very high. To-day is Monday, +and next Friday I purpose starting for Salonica, in a +steamboat—Salonica is in Albania. I shall then cross +Albania, a journey of about three hundred miles, and get to +Corfu, from which I can either get to England across Italy and +down the Rhine, or by way of Marseilles and across France. +I shall not make any stay in Italy if I go there, as I have +nothing to see there.</p> +<p>I shall be so glad to be at home with you once again, and to +see my dear mother and Hen. Tell Hen that I picked up for +her in one of the bazaars a curious Armenian coin; it is silver, +small, but thick, with a most curious inscription upon it. +I gave fifteen piasters for it. I hope it and the rest will +get safe to England. I have bought a chest, which I intend +to send by sea, and I have picked up a great many <!-- page +13--><a name="page13"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 13</span>books +and other things, and I wish to travel light; I shall, therefore, +only take a bag with a few clothes and shirts. It is +possible that I shall be at home soon after your receiving this, +or at most three weeks after—I hope to write to you again +from Corfu, which is a British island with a British garrison in +it, like Gibraltar.</p> +<p>The English newspapers came last week. I see those +wretched French cannot let us alone, they want to go to war; +well, let them—they richly deserve a good drubbing. +The people here are very kind in their way, but home is home, +especially such a one as mine, with true hearts to welcome +me.</p> +<p>Oh, I was so glad to get your letters; they were rather of a +distant date, it is true, but they quite revived me. I hope +you are all well, and my dear mother. Since I have been +here I have written to Mr. Lord. I was glad to hear that he +has written to Hen. I hope Lucy is well; <!-- page 14--><a +name="page14"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 14</span>pray remember +me most kindly to her, and tell her that I hope to see her +soon. I count so on getting into my summer-house again, and +sitting down to write; I have arranged my book in my mind, and +though it will take me a great deal of trouble to write it, I +feel that when it is written it will be first-rate.</p> +<p>My journey with God’s help has done me a great deal of +good—I am stronger than I was, and I can now sleep. I +intend to draw on England for forty or fifty pounds; if I +don’t want the whole of it, it will be all the same. +I have still some money left, but I have no wish to be stopped on +my journey for want of it. I am sorry about what you told +me respecting the railway, sorry that the old coach is driven off +the road. I shall patronise it as little as possible, but +stick to the old route and Thurton George. What a number of +poor people will these railroads deprive of their bread. I +am grieved at <!-- page 15--><a name="page15"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 15</span>what you say about poor M. He +can take her into custody however, and oblige her to support the +children; such is law, though the property may have been secured +to her, she can be compelled to do that.</p> +<p>Tell Hen that there is a mosque here, called the mosque of +Sultan Bajazet; it is full of sacred pigeons; there is a corner +of the court to which the creatures flock to be fed, like bees, +by hundreds and thousands; they are not at all afraid, as they +are never killed. Every place where they can roost is +covered with them, their impudence is great; they sprang +originally from two pigeons brought from Asia by the Emperor of +Constantinople. They are of a deep blue.</p> +<p style="text-align: right">God bless you, dearest,<br /> +G. B.</p> +<h3><!-- page 16--><a name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +16</span><span class="smcap">Letter IV</span>.<br /> +<i>To</i> <span class="smcap">Mary Borrow</span>.</h3> +<p style="text-align: right"><span +class="smcap">Oxford</span>.<br /> +<i>February</i> 2<i>nd</i>, [1846]</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Dear Carreta</span>,</p> +<p>I reached this place yesterday, and hope to be home to-night +(Monday). I walked the whole way by Kingston, Hampton, +Sunbury (Miss Oriel’s place), Windsor, Wallingford, +&c.—a good part of the way by the Thames. There +has been much wet weather. Oxford is a wonderful +place. Kiss Hen, and God bless you!</p> +<p style="text-align: right">[<span class="smcap">George +Borrow</span>.]</p> +<h3><!-- page 17--><a name="page17"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +17</span><span class="smcap">Letter V</span>.<br /> +<i>To</i> <span class="smcap">Mary Borrow</span>.</h3> +<p style="text-align: right"><span class="smcap">Tunbridge +Wells</span>,<br /> +<i>Tuesday evening</i>.<br /> +[1846]</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Dear Carreta</span>,</p> +<p>I have arrived here safe. It is a wonderful place, a +small city of palaces amidst hills, rocks, and woods, and is full +of fine people. Please to carry upstairs and lock in the +drawer the little paper sack of letters in the parlour; lock it +up with the bank book, and put this along with it—also be +sure to keep the window of my room fastened and the door locked, +and keep the key in your pocket. God bless you and Hen.</p> +<p style="text-align: right">[<span class="smcap">George +Borrow</span>.]</p> +<h3><!-- page 18--><a name="page18"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +18</span><span class="smcap">Letter VI</span>.<br /> +<i>To</i> <span class="smcap">Mary Borrow</span>.</h3> +<p style="text-align: right"><i>Tuesday afternoon</i>,<br /> +[1848]</p> +<p><span class="smcap">My Dear Wife</span>,</p> +<p>I just write you a line to tell you that I am tolerably well, +as I hope you are.</p> +<p>Everything is in confusion abroad. The French King has +disappeared and will probably never be heard of, though they are +expecting him in England. Funds are down nearly to +80. The Government have given up the income tax, and people +are very glad of it. I am not. With respect to the +funds, if I were to sell out I should <!-- page 19--><a +name="page19"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 19</span>not know what +to do with the money. J. says they will rise. I do +not think they will; they may, however, fluctuate a little.</p> +<p>Keep up your spirits, my heart’s dearest, and kiss old +Hen for me.</p> +<p style="text-align: right">G. B.</p> +<h3><!-- page 20--><a name="page20"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +20</span><span class="smcap">Letter VII</span>.<br /> +<i>To</i> <span class="smcap">Mary Borrow</span>.</h3> +<p style="text-align: right">53<span class="smcap">a</span> <span +class="smcap">Pall Mall</span>.<br /> +[1848]</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Dear Carreta</span>,</p> +<p>I hope you received my last letter written on Tuesday.</p> +<p>I am glad that I came to London. I find myself much the +better for having done so, I was going on in a very spiritless +manner. Everybody I have met seems very kind and glad to +see me. Murray seems to be thoroughly staunch. Cooke, +to whom I mentioned the F. T. says that Murray was delighted with +the idea, and will be very glad of the 4th of +<i>Lavengro</i>. I am going to dine with Murray today, +Thursday. W. called upon me today.</p> +<p><!-- page 21--><a name="page21"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +21</span>I wish you would send me a blank cheque in a letter so +that if I want money I may be able to draw for a little. I +shall not be long from home, but now I am here I wish to do all +that’s necessary. If you send me a blank cheque I +suppose W. or M. would give me the money. I hope you got my +last letter. I received yours, and C. has just sent the two +copies of L. you wrote for, and I believe some engravings of the +picture. I shall wish to return it by the packet if +possible, and will let you know when I am coming. I hope to +write again shortly to tell you some more news. How is +mother and Hen and how are the creatures? I hope all +well. I trust you like all I propose; now I am here I want +to get two or three things, to go to the Museum, and to arrange +matters.</p> +<p>God bless you.</p> +<p style="text-align: right">[<span class="smcap">George +Borrow</span>.]</p> +<p>Love to Mother and Hen.</p> +<h3><!-- page 22--><a name="page22"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +22</span><span class="smcap">Letter VIII</span>.<br /> +<i>To</i> <span class="smcap">Mary Borrow</span>.</h3> +<p style="text-align: right">58 <span class="smcap">Jermyn +St</span>,<br /> +<span class="smcap">St. James’</span>,<br /> +[1848]</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Dear Carreta</span>,</p> +<p>I got here safe, and upon the whole had not so bad a journey +as might be expected. I put up at the Spread Eagle for the +night, for I was tired and hungry. I have got into my old +lodgings as you see, those on the second floor. They are +very nice ones with every convenience; they are expensive it is +true, but they are cheerful, which is a grand consideration for +me. I have as yet seen nobody, for it is only now a little +past eleven. I can scarcely at present tell <!-- page +23--><a name="page23"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 23</span>you +what my plans are, perhaps tomorrow I shall write again. +Kiss Hen, and God bless you.</p> +<p style="text-align: right">G. B.</p> +<h3><!-- page 24--><a name="page24"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +24</span><span class="smcap">Letter IX</span>.<br /> +<i>To</i> <span class="smcap">Mary Borrow</span>.</h3> +<p style="text-align: right">58 <span class="smcap">Jermyn +St</span>,<br /> +<span class="smcap">St. James’</span>,<br /> +<i>Wednesday</i>,<br /> +[1848]</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Dear Carreta</span>,</p> +<p>I was glad to receive your letter, I had expected one on +Tuesday. I am upon the whole very comfortable, and people +are kind. I passed last Sunday at Clapham with Mrs. Browne, +I was glad to go there for it was a gloomy day. They are +now glad enough to ask me.</p> +<p>I suppose I must stay in London through next week. I +have been invited to two grand parties, and it is as well to have +something for <!-- page 25--><a name="page25"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 25</span>one’s money. I called at +the Bible Society—all remarkably civil, Joseph especially +so. I think I shall be able to manage with my own +Dictionary. There is now a great demand for Morrison.</p> +<p>Yesterday I again dined at the Murray’s, there was a +family party—very pleasant. To-morrow I dine with an +old schoolfellow. Murray is talking of printing a new +edition <a name="citation25"></a><a href="#footnote25" +class="citation">[25]</a> to sell for 5 shillings. Those +rascals the Americans have it seems reprinted it, and are selling +it for <i>eighteen</i> pence. Murray says he shall print +ten thousand copies; it is chiefly intended for the +Colonies. He says the rich people and the libraries have +already got it, and he is quite right, for nearly three thousand +copies have been sold at 27<i>s.</i>! There is no longer +the high profit to be made on books there formerly was, as the +rascals abroad pirate the <!-- page 26--><a +name="page26"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 26</span>good ones, +and in the present state of copyright there is no help: we can, +however, keep the American editions out of the Colonies, which is +something.</p> +<p>I have nothing more to say, save to commend you not to go on +the water without <i>I</i>; perhaps you would be overset; and do +not go to the bridge again, ’till I come. Take care +of Habismilk and Craffs. Kiss the little mare, and old +Hen.</p> +<p style="text-align: right">[<span class="smcap">George +Borrow</span>.]</p> +<h3><!-- page 27--><a name="page27"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +27</span><span class="smcap">Letter X</span>.<br /> +<i>To</i> <span class="smcap">Mary Borrow</span>.</h3> +<p style="text-align: right"><span +class="smcap">Penquito</span>,<br /> +<i>January</i> 27<i>th</i>, 1854.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">My Dear Carreta</span>,</p> +<p>I just write you a line to inform you that I have got back +safe from the Land’s End. I have received your two +letters, and hope you received mine from the Land’s +End. It is probable that I shall yet visit one or two +places before I leave Cornwall. I am very much pleased with +the country. When you receive this if you please to write a +line <i>by return of post</i> I think you may; the Tredinnock +people wish me to stay with them for a day or two. When you +<!-- page 28--><a name="page28"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +28</span>see the Cobbs pray remember me to them. I am sorry +Horace has lost his aunt, he will <i>miss her</i>. Love to +Hen.</p> +<p style="text-align: right">Ever yours, dearest,<br /> +<span class="smcap">G. Borrow</span>.</p> +<p>(Keep this.)</p> +<h3><!-- page 29--><a name="page29"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +29</span><span class="smcap">Letter XI</span>.<br /> +<i>To</i> <span class="smcap">Mary Borrow</span>.</h3> +<p style="text-align: right"><span +class="smcap">Presteyne</span>,<br /> +<span class="smcap">Radnorshire</span>,<br /> +<i>Monday Morning</i>,<br /> +[1854]</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Dear Carreta</span>,</p> +<p>I am just going to start for Ludlow, 18 miles, and hope to be +at Shrewsbury on Tuesday night, if not on Wednesday +morning. God bless you and Hen,</p> +<p style="text-align: right"><span class="smcap">J. +Borrow</span>.</p> +<p>When I get back I shall have walked more than 400 miles.</p> +<h3><!-- page 30--><a name="page30"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +30</span><span class="smcap">Letter XII</span>.<br /> +<i>To</i> <span class="smcap">Mary Borrow</span>.</h3> +<p style="text-align: right">53<span class="smcap">a Pall +Mall</span>,<br /> +<span class="smcap">London</span>.<br /> +[1857]</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Dear Wife Carreta</span>,</p> +<p>I arrived here at about five o’clock this morning. +Since I saw you I have walked about 250 miles. I walked the +whole way from the North to the South, then turning to the East +traversed Glamorganshire and the county of Monmouth, and came out +at Chepstow. My boots were worn up by the time I reached +Swansea, and I was obliged to get them new soled and +welted. I walked every inch of the way.</p> +<p>I have seen wonderful mountains, waterfalls, and <!-- page +31--><a name="page31"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +31</span>people. On the side of the Black Mountains I met a +cartload of real Gypsies. They were in a dreadful rage, and +were abusing the country right and left. My last ninety +miles proved not very comfortable, there was so much rain.</p> +<p>Pray let me have some money by Monday, as I am nearly without +any, as you may well suppose, for I was three weeks on my +journey. I left you on a Thursday, and reached Chepstow +yesterday, Thursday evening. I hope you, my mother, and Hen +are well. I have seen M. and C.</p> +<p style="text-align: right">God bless you,<br /> +Yours,<br /> +<span class="smcap">George Borrow</span>.</p> +<p>(<i>Keep this</i>)</p> +<h3><!-- page 32--><a name="page32"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +32</span><span class="smcap">Letter XIII</span>.<br /> +<i>To</i> <span class="smcap">Mary Borrow</span>.</h3> +<p style="text-align: right"><span +class="smcap">Trecastle</span>,<br /> +<span class="smcap">Brecknockshire</span>,<br /> +<span class="smcap">South Wales</span>.<br /> +<i>August</i> 17<i>th</i>, 1857.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Dear Carreta</span>,</p> +<p>I write to you a few words from this place; tomorrow I am +going to Llandovery and from there to Carmarthen. For the +first three or four days I had dreadful weather. I got only +to Worthen the first day, twelve miles, on the next to +Montgomery, and so on. It is now very hot; but I am very +well, much better than at Shrewsbury. I hope in a few days +to write to you again, and soon to be back to you.</p> +<p>God bless you and Hen.</p> +<p style="text-align: right"><span class="smcap">G. +Borrow</span>.</p> +<h3><!-- page 33--><a name="page33"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +33</span><span class="smcap">Letter XIV</span>.<br /> +<i>To</i> <span class="smcap">Mary Borrow</span>.</h3> +<p style="text-align: right"><span +class="smcap">Inverness</span>,<br /> +<i>September</i> 29<i>th</i>, 1858.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">My Dear Carreta</span>,</p> +<p>I have got your letter, and glad enough I was to get it. +The day after to-morrow I shall depart from here for Fort +Augustus, at some distance up the lake. After staying a few +days there, I am thinking of going to the Isle of Mull, but I +will write to you if possible from Fort Augustus.</p> +<p>I am rather sorry that I came to Scotland—I was never in +such a place in my <!-- page 34--><a name="page34"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 34</span>life for cheating and imposition, and +the farther north you go the worse things seem to be. And +yet I believe it is possible to live very cheaply here, that is +if you have a house of your own and a wife to go out and make +bargains; for things are abundant enough, but if you move about +you are at the mercy of innkeepers and suchlike people.</p> +<p>The other day I was swindled out of a shilling by a villain to +whom I had given it for change. I ought, perhaps, to have +had him up before a magistrate, provided I could have found +one. But I was in a wild place, and he had a clan about +him, and if I had had him up I have no doubt I should have been +outsworn. I, however, have met one fine, noble old +fellow. The other night I lost my way amongst horrible +moors, and wandered for miles and miles without seeing a +soul. At last I saw a light, which came from the window of +a rude hovel. I tapped, <!-- page 35--><a +name="page35"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 35</span>at the +window, and shouted, and at last an old man came out. He +asked me what I wanted, and I told him I had lost my way. +He asked me where I came from, and where I wanted to go; and on +my telling him he said I had indeed lost my way, for I had got +out of it at least four miles, and was going away from the place +I wanted to get to. He then said he would show me the way, +and went with me for several miles over most horrible +places. At last we came to a road where he said he thought +he might leave me, and wished me goodnight. I gave him a +shilling. He was very grateful, and said, after +considering, that as I had behaved so handsomely to him he would +not leave me yet, as he thought it possible I might yet lose my +way. He then went with me three miles farther, and I have +no doubt that, but for him, I should have lost my way again the +roads were so tangled. I never saw such an old fellow, or +one whose conversation was so odd <!-- page 36--><a +name="page36"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 36</span>and +entertaining. This happened last Monday night, the night of +the day in which I had been swindled of the shilling by the +other; I could write a history about those two shillings.</p> +<p style="text-align: right">[<span class="smcap">George +Borrow</span>.]</p> +<h3><!-- page 37--><a name="page37"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +37</span><span class="smcap">Letter XV</span>.<br /> +<i>To</i> <span class="smcap">Mrs. MacOubrey</span>.</h3> +<p style="text-align: right"><span +class="smcap">Oulton</span>,<br /> +<span class="smcap">Lowestoft</span>.<br /> +<i>April</i> 1<i>st</i>, 1874.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Dear Henrietta</span>,</p> +<p>I have received your letter of the 30th March. Since I +last wrote I have not been well. I have had a great pain in +the left jaw, which almost prevented me from eating. I am, +however, better now.</p> +<p>I shall be glad to see you and Dr. MacOubrey as soon as you +can conveniently come. Send me a line to say when I may +expect you. I have no engagements.</p> +<p>Before you come call at No. 36 to enquire <!-- page 38--><a +name="page38"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 38</span>whether +anything has been sent there. Leverton had better be +employed to make a couple of boxes or cases for the books in the +sacks. The sacks can be put on the top in the inside. +There is an old coat in one of the sacks in the pocket of which +are papers. Let it be put in with its contents just as it +is. I wish to have the long white chest and the two deal +boxes also brought down. Buy me a thick under-waistcoat +like the one I am now wearing, and a lighter one for the +summer. Worsted socks are of no use—they scarcely +last a day. Cotton ones are poor things, but they are +better than worsted.</p> +<p style="text-align: right">Kind regards to Dr. MacOubrey.<br /> +God bless you!<br /> +[<span class="smcap">George Borrow</span>.]</p> +<p>Return me this when you come.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">* * * * *</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><!-- page 40--><a +name="page40"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 40</span><span +class="smcap">London</span>:<br /> +Printed for THOMAS J. 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