I was with Borrow a week ago at Donne's, and also at Yarmouth three months ago: he is well, but not yet agreed with Murray. He read me a long translation he had made from the Turkish: which I could not admire, and his taste becomes stranger than ever.[207]
But Borrow's genius if not his taste was always admired by FitzGerald, as the following letter among my Borrow Papers clearly indicates. Borrow had published The Romany Rye at the beginning of May:
OULTON COTTAGE FROM THE BROAD
Showing the summer house on the left from a sketch by Henrietta MacOubrey. The house which has replaced it has another aspect.
THE SUMMER HOUSE OULTON, AS IT IS TO DAY
Which when compared with Miss MacOubrey's sketch shows that it has been reroofed and probably rebuilt altogether.
To George Borrow, Esq., Oulton Hall.
Goldington Hall, Bedford, May 24/57[208]