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Valpy, Rev. E., Borrow’s schoolmaster—story of Borrow being flogged by, 46–49
Venning, John, work of, in Russia—befriends Borrow, 95
Victoria, Queen, visits gypsy encampment, 29
Vidocq, memoirs of, translated by Borrow, 80
Vienna described, 170
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Wahrheit und Dichtung, opening lines of, compared with those of Lavengro, 7
Walpole, Horace, on Mr. Fenn, 26
Watts-Dunton, Theodore, criticism of Borrow’s work, 251; on intimacy between Borrow and Hake, 250, 251; introduction to Lavengro by, 269
Weare pamphlets, 71
— William, murder of, 71
Westminster Review, 82
Whewell, Dr., 188
Wilberforce, William, connection of, with Bible Society, 91
Wilcock, Rev. J., his impressions of Borrow, 220
Wild Wales, 9, 143, 246, 255; appreciations of, 233, 236, 238, 239; comparative failure of, 239; comparison of, with Borrow’s three other great works, 242; high spirits of 243; Lope de Vega’s ghost story referred to in, 237; reviews of, 236; time taken to write, 236
Wilhelm Meister, quoted, 91
William Bodham Donne and his Friends, Borrow described in, 233, 234
Williams, J. Evan, letter from Borrow to, on similarity of some Sclavonian and Welsh words, 237, 238
Woodhouses, the, 66
Wordsworth, Borrow’s estimate of, 224
Wormius, Olaus, 51
Wright, Dr. Aldis, 231