[107a] Letter to Rev. J. Jowett, 4th August 1833.
[107b] Letter to Rev. J. Jowett, 4th August 1833.
[108a] Borrow is always puzzling when concerned with dates. He writes to his mother telling her that he left on the 7th, and later gives the date, in a letter to Mr Jowett, as 24th July, O.S. (5th August). The 7th seems to be the correct date.
[108b] Letter to his mother.
[109] “If I had my choice of all the cities of the world to live in, I would choose Saint Petersburg.”—Wild Wales, page 665.
[110] Letter to Rev. J. Jowett, undated: received 26th September 1833.
[111] In a letter dated 3rd/15th August, the Prince wrote to Mr Venning at Norwich, “On returning thence, your son came to introduce to me the Englishman who has come over here about the translation of the Manchu Bible, and who brought with him your letter.”—Memorials of John Venning, 1862.
[112a] Best known for his Grammar, written in German.
[112b] Nephew of J. C Adelung, the philologist.
[113] Letter to Rev. J. Jowett, undated, but received 26th September 1833.