other day; they were beautiful linen ones, and I think
you will like them when you see. I shall be so glad to get
home and continue, if possible, my old occupation. I hope my
next book will sell; one comfort is that nothing like it has
ever been published before. I hope you all get on comfortably,
and that you catch some fish. I hope my dear mother is well,
and that she will continue with you till the end of July at
least; ah! that is my month, I was born in it, it is the
pleasantest month in the year; would to God that my fate had
worn as pleasant an aspect as the month in which I was born.
God bless you all. Write to me, _to the care of the British
Embassy_, Constantinople. Kind remembrances to Pilgrim.

In the intervening journey between Pesth and Constantinople he must have
talked long and wandered far and wide among the gypsies, for Charles L.
Brace in his _Hungary in 1851_ gives us a glimpse of him at Grosswardein
holding conversation with the gypsies:

They described his appearance--his tall, lank, muscular
form--and mentioned that he had been much in Spain, and I saw
that it must be that most ubiquitous of travellers, Mr. Borrow.

The four following letters require no comment:

To Mrs. George Borrow, Oulton, Lowestoft

DEBRECZEN, HUNGARY, _8th July 1844._

MY DARLING CARRETA,--I write to you from Debreczen, a town in
the heart of Hungary, where I have been for the last fortnight
with the exception of three days during which I was making a
journey to Tokay, which is about forty miles distant. My reason
for staying here so long was my liking the place where I have
experienced every kind of hospitality; almost all the people in
these parts are Protestants, and they are so fond of the very
name of Englishmen that when one arrives they scarcely know how
to make enough of him; it is well the place is so remote that
very few are ever seen here, perhaps not oftener than once in
ten years, for if some of our scamps and swell mob were once to
find their way there the good people of Hungary would soon
cease to have much respect for the English in general; as it
is they think that they are all men of honour and accomplished
gentlemen whom it becomes them to receive well in order that
they may receive from them lessons in civilisation; I wonder
wh