[214a] Mr Brandram wrote to Graydon (12th April 1838): “Mr Rule being at Madrid and having conferred with Mr Borrow and Sir George Villiers, it appears to have struck them all three that a visit on your part to Cadiz and Seville could not at present be advantageous to our cause.”
[214b] Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 20th November 1837.
[214c] Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 28th November 1837. The comment on the badness of the London edition had reference to the translation, which Borrow had condemned with great vigour; he subsequently admitted that he had been too sweeping in his disapproval.
[215a] Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 28th November 1837.
[215b] Sir George Villiers to Viscount Palmerston, 5th May 1838.
[215c] Ibid.
[216a] The Gypsies of Spain, page 241.
[216b] Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 25th Dec. 1837.
[216c] These Bibles fetched, the large edition (Borrow wrote “I would give my right hand for a thousand of them”) 17s. each, and the smaller 7s. each, whereas the New Testaments fetched about half-a crown.
[216d] Letter dated 16th Jan. 1838.