Borrow’s contradictory character—His fine person; Mr. Murray’s
portrait of him—As my guest he accompanies me to a dinner at
Sir Thomas Cullum’s—The party present—Borrow and Thackeray the
lions—Milner Gibson—Borrow accompanies me to a dinner at Mr.
Bevan’s, a truly awkward occasion for all parties—Anecdote of
Borrow and Miss Agnes Strickland, told me by Mr. J. W. Donne,
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