rt, I should
conceive that you had best direct it to the care of Mr. Brackenbury at
Cadiz, on whom I propose to call on my way to Ceuta, etc. As for Cadiz
itself, I have no intention of attempting to do any thing there, at least
for the present. After a great deal of gloomy and unsettled weather the
genuine Andalusian summer has come upon us at last. The brilliancy of
the sun and the azure of the heavens are perfectly indescribable. The
people here complain sadly of the heat, but as for myself, I luxuriate in
it, like the butterflies which hover about the _macetas_, or flowerpots,
in the court. Hoping that you will present my remembrances to Mrs.
Brandram, and likewise to all other dear friends, I remain Revd. and dear
Sir, yours truly,

GEORGE BORROW.

To the Rev. A. Brandram

(_Endorsed_: recd. Aug. 5, 1839)
SEVILLE, No. 7 PLAZUELA DE LA PILA SECA,
18_th_ _July_ 1839.

REVD. AND DEAR SIR,--As I am about to leave Seville in a few days for San
Lucar, Tangiers, and Ceuta, I wish before setting out to send a word or
two in order that you may be acquainted with the state of matters up to
the present moment. Our work is concluded here for the season, and for
the very efficient reason that I have no more Testaments to sell,
somewhat more than two hundred having been circulated since my arrival.
A poor Genoese, the waiter at a Swiss ordinary, has just been with me
requesting a dozen, which he says have been bespoken by people who
frequent the house, but I have been obliged to send him away, it not
being in my power to supply him. About ten days since I was visited by
various _alguacils_, headed by the _Alcalde del Barrio_, or headborough,
who made a small seizure of Testaments and Gypsy Gospels which happened
to be lying about. This visit was far from being disagreeable to me, as
I considered it to be a very satisfactory proof of the effect of our
exertions in Seville. I cannot help here relating to you an anecdote. A
day or two subsequent, having occasion to call at the house of the
headborough to complain of an act of dishonesty which had been committed
by my porters, I found him lying on his bed, for it was the hour of the
_siesta_, reading intently one of the very Testaments which he had taken
away--all of which,