Footnotes:
{15} Mr. Coulson Kernahan.
{17} The writer is much indebted to Mr. Coulson Kernahan for this story
and much other information of life at “The Pines.”
{18} ‘My Reminiscences,’ by Lord Ronald Gower.
{25} Of August 13, 1881. By Mr. A. Egmont Hake.
{32} Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, art-critic, who poisoned a number of
his relatives for their money, a contributor to _The London Magazine_ and
exhibitor at the Royal Academy. He died a convict in Tasmania in 1852.
{33} C. G. Leland (“Hans Breitmann”), on whom Borrow’s books had “an
incredible influence,” and caused him to take up the study of things
Romany.
{34} Louis Jeremiah Abershaw, better known as Jerry Abershaw,
1773?-1795, a notorious highwayman, who was the terror of the roads from
London to Wimbledon and Kingston. Borrow with characteristic perversity
persisted in regarding the redoubtable Jerry as a hero, in spite of the
fact that he justly met his death on the gallows.
{50} ‘Life, Writings, and Correspondence of George Borrow.’ Derived
from Official and other Authentic Sources. By William I. Knapp, Ph.D.
With Portrait and Illustrations. 2 vols. (Murray.)
{60} The “reader” was Richard Ford, author of the ‘Handbook for
Travellers in Spain,’ &c. He subsequently became Burrow’s warm admirer
and friend.
{77} ‘Dante Gabriel Rossetti, as Designer and Writer.’ Notes by William
Michael Rossetti. (Cassell and Co.)
{104} ‘Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti to William Allingham,
1854–1870.’ By George Birkbeck Hill. (Fisher Unwin.)
{108} The year of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.
{132} ‘Alfred, Lord Tennyson: a Memoir.’ By his Son. 2 vols.
(Macmillan).
{156} “My father’s words.”
{168} _The Times_, October 18, 1876.
{195} ‘New Poems.’ By Christina Rossetti. Edited by William Michael
Rossetti. (Macmillan & Co.)
{231} ‘Poems, Dramatic and Lyrical.’ By Lord de Tabley. Second Series.
(Lane.)
{263} ‘A Dream of John Ball and a King’s Lesson.’ ‘Signs of Change.’
{264} Written in 1888.