Footnotes:

[15] Mr. Coulson Kernahan.

[17] The writer is much indebted to Mr. Coulson Kernahan for this story and much other information of life at “The Pines.”

[18] ‘My Reminiscences,’ by Lord Ronald Gower.

[25] Of August 13, 1881. By Mr. A. Egmont Hake.

[32] Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, art-critic, who poisoned a number of his relatives for their money, a contributor to The London Magazine and exhibitor at the Royal Academy. He died a convict in Tasmania in 1852.

[33] C. G. Leland (“Hans Breitmann”), on whom Borrow’s books had “an incredible influence,” and caused him to take up the study of things Romany.

[34] Louis Jeremiah Abershaw, better known as Jerry Abershaw, 1773?-1795, a notorious highwayman, who was the terror of the roads from London to Wimbledon and Kingston. Borrow with characteristic perversity persisted in regarding the redoubtable Jerry as a hero, in spite of the fact that he justly met his death on the gallows.

[50] ‘Life, Writings, and Correspondence of George Borrow.’ Derived from Official and other Authentic Sources. By William I. Knapp, Ph.D. With Portrait and Illustrations. 2 vols. (Murray.)

[60] The “reader” was Richard Ford, author of the ‘Handbook for Travellers in Spain,’ &c. He subsequently became Burrow’s warm admirer and friend.

[77] ‘Dante Gabriel Rossetti, as Designer and Writer.’ Notes by William Michael Rossetti. (Cassell and Co.)

[104] ‘Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti to William Allingham, 1854–1870.’ By George Birkbeck Hill. (Fisher Unwin.)

[108] The year of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.

[132] ‘Alfred, Lord Tennyson: a Memoir.’ By his Son. 2 vols. (Macmillan).

[156] “My father’s words.”

[168] The Times, October 18, 1876.

[195] ‘New Poems.’ By Christina Rossetti. Edited by William Michael Rossetti. (Macmillan & Co.)

[231] ‘Poems, Dramatic and Lyrical.’ By Lord de Tabley. Second Series. (Lane.)

[263] ‘A Dream of John Ball and a King’s Lesson.’ ‘Signs of Change.’

[264] Written in 1888.