e, at which his
father died, and where his mother lived till her removal to Oulton as
stated above.

Little remains to record. Some there are who remember Borrow's tall
figure in the streets of Norwich. The old city--"the Norwich I
love"--seemed to draw him irresistibly from his hermitage. Nor is this
to be wondered at; for all accounts I have seen, and heard also, of the
Oulton domestic arrangements during the last few years of his life, agree
that they were deplorable. Mr. Elwin told me that, after the death of
Borrow's wife, the home was not well looked after, and that Mr. Cooke
(Murray's cousin and partner) "told him with tears in his eyes how
neglected the home was, and how the noble old man was broken up." Miss
Jay also informed me that "after Mrs. Borrow's death Mrs. MacOubrey was
wanting in tact to manage him and the affairs of the family, hence the
gradual decline of household matters into the disorder and neglect
referred to by visitors to Oulton in Borrow's latter days." No wonder
the weary old Lav-engro was glad to revisit the scenes of his youth, and
found it restful to spend much of his time in the Norfolk Hotel (which
stood where the Hippodrome now is), talking with his friends, with a
glass before him--"of course to pay for the seat," remarks Dr. Knapp,
with an apparent attempt at sarcasm. I know a gentleman in Norwich now
who remembers Borrow's visits to the Subscription Library opposite the
Guildhall, and his adjournments to the "Norfolk" after asking my
informant to join him in a glass of brandy and water.

Borrow's death, July 26th, 1881, was very sudden. Left alone in the
house, he was found dead when Dr. and Mrs. MacOubrey returned from a
drive to Lowestoft. "It seems fitting," says Mr. Jenkins, "that he
should die alone"; but he justly adds, "whatever the facts, it was
strange to leave so old and so infirm a man quite unattended." Dr. Knapp
affirms that Borrow "had earnestly requested them not to go away, because
he felt that he was in a dying state." The corpse of the worn-out
veteran was detained in Oulton from July 26th to August 4th--"by reason
of the absence of a physician's certificate," says Dr. Knapp. Borrow was
buried in Brompton Cemetery beside his wife.

At the time of his death Borrow was practically forgotten, and even
first-rate handbooks omitted his name from their obituaries. The case is
altered now, and the Borrow Celebration, of which this souvenir will be
one mem