It is a very long affair, and the language is Norman-Saxon. L40
would not be an extravagant price for a transcript, and so they
told him at the museum. However, as I am doing nothing
particular at present, and as I might learn something from
transcribing it, I would do it for L20. He will call on you
to-morrow morning, and then if you please you may recommend me.
The character closely resembles the ancient Irish, so I think
you can answer for my competency.--Yours most truly,

G. BORROW.

_P.S._--Do not lose the original copies of the Danish
translations which you sent to the _Foreign Quarterly_, for I
have no duplicates. I think _The Roses_ of Ingemann was sent;
it is not printed; so if it be not returned, we shall have to
re-translate it.

To Dr. John Bowring

7 MUSEUM ST., _Sept. 14, 1830._

MY DEAR SIR,--I return you the Bohemian books. I am going to
Norwich for some short time as I am very unwell, and hope that
cold bathing in October and November may prove of service to
me. My complaints are, I believe, the offspring of ennui and
unsettled prospects. I have thoughts of attempting to get into
the French service, as I should like prodigiously to serve
under Clausel in the next Bedouin campaign. I shall leave
London next Sunday and will call some evening to take my leave;
I cannot come in the morning, as early rising kills me.--Most
sincerely yours,

G. BORROW.

To Dr. John Bowring

WILLOW LANE, NORWICH, _Sept. 11, 1831._

MY DEAR SIR,--I return you my most sincere thanks for your kind
letter of the 2nd inst., and though you have not been
successful in your application to the Belgian authorities in my
behalf, I know full well that you did your utmost, and am only
sorry that at my instigation you attempted an impossibility.
The Belgians seem either not to know or not to care for the
opinion of the great Cyrus, who gives this advice to his
captains: 'Take no heed from what countries ye fill up your
ranks, but seek recruits as ye do horses, not those
particularly who are of your own country, but those of merit.'
The Belgians will only have such recruits as are born in
Belgium, and when we consider the _heroic_ manner in which the
native Belgian army defended the person