George Borrow and His Circle - Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of - Borrow And His Friends

Clement King Shorter

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Title: George Borrow and His Circle
Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of
Borrow And His Friends
Author: Clement King Shorter
Release Date: November 12, 2006 [EBook #19767]
Language: English
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George Henry Borrow
From a painting by Henry
Wyndham PhillipsGEORGE BORROW
AND HIS CIRCLE
WHEREIN MAY BE FOUND MANY HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED
LETTERS OF BORROW AND HIS FRIENDS
BY
CLEMENT KING SHORTER
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
1913
TO
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL
A FRIEND OF LONG YEARS AND A TRUE
LOVER OF GEORGE BORROW
C. K. S.
Transcriber's Notes: Minor typos have been corrected. There is Persian and
Russian writing in this book, which have been marked as [Persian] or as
[Russian]. In this text, full page illustrations used the same page number as the
previous non illustration page, so, for example, there were two page 16. I have
added an a after the illustration page number for the sake of clarity.
[Pg v]PREFACE
I have to express my indebtedness first of all to the executors of Henrietta
MacOubrey, George Borrow's stepdaughter, who kindly placed Borrow's letters
and manuscripts at my disposal. To the survivor of these executors, a lady who
resides in an English provincial town, I would particularly wish to render fullest
acknowledgment did she not desire to escape all publicity and forbid me to give
her name in print. I am indebted to Sir William Robertson Nicoll without whose
kindly and active intervention I should never have taken active steps to obtain
the material to which this biography owes its principal value. I am under great
obligations to Mr. Herbert Jenkins, the publisher, in that, although the author ofa successful biography of Borrow, he has, with rare kindliness, brought me into
communication with Mr. Wilfrid J. Bowring, the grandson of Sir John Bowring.
To Mr. Wilfrid Bowring I am indebted in that he has handed to me the whole of
Borrow's letters to his grandfather. I have to thank Mr. James Hooper of
Norwich for the untiring zeal with which he has unearthed for me a valuable
[Pg vi]series of notes including certain interesting letters concerning Borrow. Mr.
Hooper has generously placed his collection, with which he at one time
contemplated writing a biography of Borrow, in my hands. I thank Dr. Aldis
Wright for reading my chapter on Edward FitzGerald; also Mr. W.H. Peet, Mr.
Aleck Abrahams, and Mr. Joseph Shaylor for assistance in the little known field
of Sir Richard Phillips's life. I have further to thank my friends, Edward Clodd
and Thomas J. Wise, for reading my proof-sheets. To Theodore Watts-Dunton,
an untiring friend of thirty years, I have also to acknowledge abundant
obligations.
C. K. S.
[Pg vii]CONTENTS
Preface, v
Introduction, xv
CHAPTER I
CAPTAIN BORROW OF THE WEST NORFOLK MILITIA, 1
CHAPTER II
BORROW'S MOTHER, 12
CHAPTER III
JOHN THOMAS BORROW, 18
CHAPTER IV
A WANDERING CHILDHOOD, 36
CHAPTER V
GEORGE BORROW'S NORWICH—THE GURNEYS, 54
CHAPTER VI
GEORGE BORROW'S NORWICH—THE TAYLORS, 63
CHAPTER VII
GEORGE BORROW'S NORWICH—THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, 70
CHAPTER VIII
GEORGE BORROW'S NORWICH—THE LAWYER'S OFFICE, 79
CHAPTER IX
SIR RICHARD PHILLIPS, 87
CHAPTER X
'FAUSTUS' AND 'ROMANTIC BALLADS,' 101
CHAPTER XI
'CELEBRATED TRIALS' AND JOHN THURTELL, 112CHAPTER XII
BORROW AND THE FANCY, 126
CHAPTER XIII
EIGHT YEARS OF VAGABONDAGE, 133
CHAPTER XIV
SIR JOHN BOWRING, 138
CHAPTER XV
BORROW AND THE BIBLE SOCIETY, 153
CHAPTER XVI
ST. PETERSBURG AND JOHN P. HASFELD, 162
CHAPTER XVII
THE MANCHU BIBLE—'TARGUM'—'THE TALISMAN,' 169
CHAPTER XVII
THREE VISITS TO SPAIN, 179
CHAPTER XIX
BORROW'S SPANISH CIRCLE, 201
CHAPTER XX
MARY BORROW, 215
CHAPTER XXI
'THE CHILDREN OF THE OPEN AIR,' 226
CHAPTER XXII
'THE BIBLE IN SPAIN,' 237
CHAPTER XXIII
RICHARD FORD, 248
CHAPTER XXIV
IN EASTERN EUROPE, 260
CHAPTER XXV
'LAVENGRO,' 275
CHAPTER XXVI
A VISIT TO CORNISH KINSMEN, 289
CHAPTER XXVII
IN THE ISLE OF MAN, 296
CHAPTER XXVIII
OULTON BROAD AND YARMOUTH, 304
CHAPTER XXIX
IN SCOTLAND AND IRELAND, 320
CHAPTER XXX
'THE ROMANY RYE,' 341
CHAPTER XXXIEDWARD FITZGERALD, 350
CHAPTER XXXII
'WILD WALES,' 364
CHAPTER XXXIII
LIFE IN LONDON, 379
CHAPTER XXXIV
FRIENDS OF LATER YEARS, 389
CHAPTER XXXV
BORROW'S UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS, 401
CHAPTER XXXVI
HENRIETTA CLARKE, 413
CHAPTER XXXVII
THE AFTERMATH, 434
INDEX, 439
[Pg xi]LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FULL-PAGE PLATES
George Borrow, Frontispiece
A photogravure portrait from the painting by Henry Wyndham
Phillips.
PAGE
The Borrow House, Norwich, 16
Robert Hawkes, Mayor of Norwich in 1824, 24
From the painting by Benjamin Haydon in St. Andrew's Hall,
Norwich.
George Borrow, 32
From a portrait by his brother, John Thomas Borrow, in the
National Portrait Gallery, London.
The Erpingham Gate and the Grammar School, Norwich 72
William Simpson, 80
From a portrait by Thomas Phillips, R.A., in the Black Friars Hall,
Norwich.
Friends of Borrow's Early Years—
Sir John Bowring in 1826, 96
John P. Hasfeld in 1835, 96
William Taylor, 96
Sir Richard Phillips, 96
The Family of Jasper Petulengro, 128The Family of Jasper Petulengro, 128
Where Borrow Lived in Madrid, 192
The Calle del Principe, Madrid, 192
A hitherto Unpublished Portrait of George Borrow, 304
Taken in the garden of Mrs. Simms Reeve of Norwich in 1848.
Oulton Cottage from the Broad, 352
The Summer-House, Oulton, as it is to-day, 352
ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT
George Borrow's Birthplace at Dumpling Green, 35
From a Drawing by Fortunino Matania.
Title-Pages of 'Targum' and 'The Talisman,' 178
Portion of a Letter From George Borrow To the Rev. Samuel Brandram, 187
Written From Madrid, 13th May 1838.
Facsimile of an Account of George Borrow's Expenses in Spain made
190
out by the Bible Society,
A Letter from Sir George Villiers, afterwards Earl of Clarendon, British
211
Minister to Spain, to George Borrow,
Mrs. Borrow's Copy of her Marriage Certificate, 222
An Application for a Book in the British Museum, with Borrow's Signature, 230
A Shekel, 244
Title-Page of Basque Translation by Oteiza of the Gospel of St. Luke, 247
Title-Page of First Edition of Romany Translation of the Gospel of St.
247
Luke,
Two Pages From Borrow's Corrected Proof Sheets of Romany
247
Translation of the Gospel of St. Luke,
Inscriptions in Borrow's Handwriting on his Wife's Copies Of 'The Bible in
275
Spain' and 'Lavengro,'
The Original Title-Page of 'Lavengro,' 280
From the Manuscript in the possession of the Author of 'George Borrow
and his Circle.'
Facsimile of the First Page of 'Lavengro,' 282
From the Manuscript in the possession of the Author of 'George Borrow
and his Circle.'
Runic Stone From the Isle of Man, 302
Facsimile of a Communication from Charles Darwin to George Borrow, 318
Facsimile of a Page of the Manuscript of 'The Romany Rye,' 346
From the Borrow Papers in the possession of the Author of 'George
Borrow and his Circle.'
'Wild Wales' in its Beginnings, 365
Two pages from one of George Borrow's Pocket-books with pencilled
notes made on his journey through Wales.Facsimile of the Title-Page of 'Wild Wales,' 368
From the original Manuscript in the possession of the Author of 'George
Borrow and his Circle.'
Facsimile of the First Page of 'Wild Wales,' 370
From the original Manuscript in the possession of the Author of 'George
Borrow and his Circle.'
Facsimile of a Poem from 'Targum,' 403
A Translation from the French by George Borrow.
Borrow as a Professor of Languages—an Advertisement, 409
A Page of the Manuscript of Borrow's 'Songs of Scandinavia'—an
411
unpublished work,
A Letter from Borrow to his Wife written from Rome in his Continental 418
Journey of 1844,
[Pg xv]INTRODUCTION
It is now exactly seventeen years ago since I published a volume not dissimilar
in form to this under the title of Charlotte Brontë and her Circle. The title had
then an element of novelty, Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Dante and his Circle, at
the time the only book of this particular character, having quite another aim.
[1]There are now some twenty or more biographies based upon a similar plan.
The method has its convenience where there are earlier lives of a given writer,
as one can in this way differentiate the book from previous efforts by making
one's hero stand out among his fr