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Title: George Borrow
The Man and His Books

Author: Edward Thomas

Release Date: June 14, 2006 [eBook #18588]

Language: English

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Transcribed from the 1912 Chapman & Hall edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

GEORGE BORROW
THE MAN AND HIS BOOKS

BY
EDWARD THOMAS

AUTHOR OF

"THE LIFE OF RICHARD JEFFERIES," "LIGHT AND TWILIGHT," "REST AND UNREST,"
"MAURICE MAETERLINCK," ETC.

WITH PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

LONDON
CHAPMAN & HALL, LTD.
1912

Printed by
JAS. TRUSCOTT AND SON, LTD.,
London, E.C.

{picture: George Borrow, (From the painting by H. W. Phillips, R.A., in
the possession of Mr. John Murray, by whose kind permission the picture
is reproduced.): page0.jpg}

NOTE

The late Dr. W. I. Knapp's Life (John Murray) and Mr. Watts-Dunton's
prefaces are the fountains of information about Borrow, and I have
clearly indicated how much I owe to them. What I owe to my friend, Mr.
Thomas Seccombe, cannot be so clearly indicated, but his prefaces have
been meat and drink to me. I have also used Mr. R. A. J. Walling's
sympathetic and interesting "George Borrow." The British and Foreign
Bible Society has given me permission to quote from Borrow's letters to
the Society, edited in 1911 by the Rev. T. H. Darlow; and Messrs. T. C.
Cantrill and J. Pringle have put at my disposal their publication of
Borrow's journal of his second Welsh tour, wonderfully annotated by
themselves ("Y Cymmrodor," 1910). These and other sources are mentioned
where they are used and in the bibliography.

DEDICATION TO E. S. P. HAYNES

MY DEAR HAYNES,

By dedicating this book to you, I believe it is my privilege to introduce
you and Borrow. This were sufficient reason for the dedication. The
many better reasons are beyond my eloquence, much though I have
remembered them this winter, listening to the storms of Caermarthen Bay,
the screams of pigs, and the street tunes of "Fall in and follow me,"
"Yip-i-addy," and "The first good joy that M