[451b] The Athenæum, 13th August 1881.
[453] “Sherry drinkers, . . . I often heard him say in a tone of positive loathing, he despised. He had a habit of speaking in a measured syllabic manner, if he wished to express dislike or contempt, which was certainly very effective. He would say: ‘If you want to have the Sherry tang, get Madeira (that’s a gentleman’s wine), and throw into it two or three pairs of old boots, and you’ll get the taste of the pig skins they carry the Sherry about in.”—Rev. J. R. P. Berkeley’s Recollections. The Life of George Borrow, by Dr Knapp.
[456] Life of Frances Power Cobbe, by Herself, 1894.
[459a] The Geologist, 1797–1875.
[459b] The Life of Frances Power Cobbe, by Herself, 1894.
[460a] Charles Godfrey Leland, by E. R. Pennell, 1908
[460b] Memoirs, by C. G. Leland, 1893.
[461a] In her biography of Leland, Mrs Pennell states that an American woman, a Mrs Lewis (“Estelle”) introduced Leland to Borrow at the British Museum and that they talked Gypsy. “I hear he expressed himself as greatly pleased with me,” was Leland’s comment. The correspondence clearly shows that Leland called on Borrow.
[461b] Memoirs of C. G. Leland, 1893.
[461c] Memoirs of C. G. Leland, 1893.