Footnotes:
[15] Mr. Coulson Kernahan.
[17] The writer is much indebted to Mr. Coulson Kernahan for this story and much other information of life at “The Pines.”
[18] ‘My Reminiscences,’ by Lord Ronald Gower.
[25] Of August 13, 1881. By Mr. A. Egmont Hake.
[32] Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, art-critic, who poisoned a number of his relatives for their money, a contributor to The London Magazine and exhibitor at the Royal Academy. He died a convict in Tasmania in 1852.
[33] C. G. Leland (“Hans Breitmann”), on whom Borrow’s books had “an incredible influence,” and caused him to take up the study of things Romany.
[34] Louis Jeremiah Abershaw, better known as Jerry Abershaw, 1773?-1795, a notorious highwayman, who was the terror of the roads from London to Wimbledon and Kingston. Borrow with characteristic perversity persisted in regarding the redoubtable Jerry as a hero, in spite of the fact that he justly met his death on the gallows.
[50] ‘Life, Writings, and Correspondence of George Borrow.’ Derived from Official and other Authentic Sources. By William I. Knapp, Ph.D. With Portrait and Illustrations. 2 vols. (Murray.)
[60] The “reader” was Richard Ford, author of the ‘Handbook for Travellers in Spain,’ &c. He subsequently became Burrow’s warm admirer and friend.