(_Endorsed_: recd. May 3rd, 1838)
MADRID, _April_ 23, 1838,
CALLE SANTIAGO.

REVD. AND DEAR SIR,--I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of
the 10th inst. and also my friend Mr. Jackson's of the 5th, containing
the resolution of the Committee in my respect, which I shall of course
attend to.

My reason for troubling you with these lines is an apprehension that my
late communication has not been understood by you; for there is something
in the tone of your reply which has made me rather unhappy, though I can
easily conjecture that at the time you wrote it you were labouring under
a considerable pressure of business. Had you paid a little more
attention to my letter, you would have perceived that it was written
unwillingly on my part, but Mr. Rule thought his province had been
invaded. As for myself I wish to say nothing, but it will be as well to
remind you that all the difficulty and danger connected with what has
been accomplished in Spain have fallen to my share, I having been
labouring on the flinty rock and sierra, and not in smiling meadows
refreshed by sea breezes. I hoped in Seville and other towns of
Andalusia to have secured the sale of more Testaments than it is probable
that I shall be able to do in Spain proper, where I was afraid that my
efforts had not been appreciated; but if my good friend Mr. Graydon has
preceded me to those regions let him remain there and let no one
interrupt him. I hope in the Lord that he will be permitted to prosper.
When you write to him, present my cordial regards, and assure him that at
all times I shall be happy to hear from him.

I hope nothing in my last letter, in which I forwarded Mr. R's
communication, will be taken in bad part. I repeat that I was grieved to
have Marin saddled upon me, in a place where I am surrounded by spies and
persecuted by many and vindictive enemies. The idea, however, of his
having gone back to Rome is preposterous, the Bishop of Jaen having
assured Mr. R. that he had turned a deaf ear to all the promises which
had been made to him, with the view of inducing him to recant. He has
not yet made his appearance.

I remain, my dear Sir, yours,

GEORGE BORROW.

_P.S._--You have never had the urbanity to acknowledge the receipt of m