[378a] Mr F. J. Bowring writes: “I was myself present at Borrow’s last call, when he came to take tea as usual, and not a word of the kind [as given in the Appendix], was delivered.”
[378b] There is no record of any correspondence with Borrow among the Museum Archives. Dr F. G. Kenyon, C.B., to whom I am indebted for this information, suggests that the communications may have been verbal.
[379] Memoirs of Eighty Years. By Dr Gordon Hake, 1892.
[380a] Annals of the Harford Family. Privately printed, 1909. Mr Theodore Watts-Dunton, in the Athenæum, 25th March 1899, has been successful in giving a convincing picture of Borrow: “As to his countenance,” he writes, “‘noble’ is the only word that can be used to describe it. The silvery whiteness of the thick crop of hair seemed to add in a remarkable way to the beauty of the hairless face, but also it gave a strangeness to it, and this strangeness was intensified by a certain incongruity between the features (perfect Roman-Greek in type), and the Scandinavian complexion, luminous and sometimes rosy as an English girl’s. An increased intensity was lent by the fair skin to the dark lustre of the eyes. What struck the observer, therefore, was not the beauty but the strangeness of the man’s appearance.”
[380b] Memoirs of Eighty Years. By Dr Gordon Hake, 1892.
[381a] E[lizabeth] H[arvey] in The Eastern Daily Press, 1st Oct. 1892.
[381b] The story is narrated by Dr Augustus Jessopp in the Athenæum, 8th July 1893.
[381c] Wild Wales, page 487.
[381d] Wild Wales, page 36 et seq.
[382] Memoirs of Eighty Years. By Dr Gordon Hake, 1892.