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Title: Letters of George Borrow
to the British and Foreign Bible Society

Author: George Borrow

Editor: T. H. Darlow

Release Date: January 28, 2007 [eBook #603]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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Transcribed from the 1911, Hodder and Stoughton edition by David Price,
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LETTERS OF
GEORGE BORROW
TO THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN
BIBLE SOCIETY

Published by Direction of the Committee

EDITED BY
T. H. DARLOW

HODDER AND STOUGHTON
LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO
1911

TO
WILLIAMSON LAMPLOUGH
CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE
OF THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN
BIBLE SOCIETY
THESE LETTERS FROM
THE SOCIETY'S DISTINGUISHED AGENT
ARE DEDICATED WITH
MOST SINCERE RESPECT AND REGARD
BY
THEIR EDITOR

To the Rev. J. Jowett

WILLOW LANE, ST. GILES, NORWICH,
_Feb._ 10_th_, 1833.

REVD. AND DEAR SIR,--I have just received your communication, and
notwithstanding it is Sunday morning, and the bells with their loud and
clear voices are calling me to church, I have sat down to answer it by
return of post. It is scarcely necessary for me to say that I was
rejoiced to see the Chrestomathie Mandchou, which will be of no slight
assistance in learning the Tartar dialect, on which ever since I left
London I have been almost incessantly occupied. It is, then, your
opinion, that from the lack of anything in the form of Grammar I have
scarcely made any progress towards the attainment