Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society

Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society was edited by T. H. Darlow. A dedication offers these letters from the society’s distinguished agent with most sincere respect and regard from their editor.

One letter says that, though it is Sunday morning and the bells are calling the writer to church, he has sat down to answer by return of post, and that he was rejoiced to see the Chrestomathie Mandchou, which will be of no slight assistance in learning the Tartar dialect. Another letter says it had been resolved that Mr. Lipoftsoff, one of the clerks of the Asiatic Department, should be appointed Censor and that the writer should be the Editor of the work, provided permission were granted to print it. A young man with a gun snatches the book from the writer’s hand and gives him the price he had demanded. The writer says that perhaps the whole world might be searched in vain for a spot whose natural charms could rival those of the plain or valley of Bembibre, with its wall of mighty mountains and its spreading chestnut-trees.