[365b] 24th April 1841.
[365c] Dr Knapp’s Life of George Borrow, ii. page 5.
[367] As late even as 13th March 1851, Dr Hake wrote to Mrs Borrow: “He [Borrow] had better carry on his biography in three more volumes.”
[372] Mr A. Egmont Hake in Athenæum, 13th Aug. 1881.
[374] There is something inexplicable about these dates. On 6th November Borrow agrees to alter a passage that in the 14th of the previous July he refers to as already amended.
[375] Vestiges of Borrow: Some Personal Reminiscences, The Globe, 21st July 1896.
[376a] Mr A. Egmont Hake in Athenæum, 13th Aug. 1881.
[376b] The Gypsies of Spain, page 287.
[376c] “His sympathies were confined to the gypsies. Where he came they followed. Where he settled, there they pitched their greasy and horribly smelling camps. It pleased him to be called their King. He was their Bard also, and wrote songs for them in that language of theirs which he professed to consider not only the first, but the finest of the human modes of speech. He liked to stretch himself large and loose-limbed before the wood fires of their encampment and watch their graceful movements among the tents” (Vestiges of Borrow: Some Personal Reminiscences, Globe, 21st July 1896).
[376d] This was said in the presence of Mr F. G. Bowring, son of Dr Bowring.