The sooner the work is advertised the better, _for I am terribly afraid of being forestalled in the Kaempe Viser by some of those Scotch blackguards_ who affect to translate from all languages, of which they are fully as ignorant as Lockhart is of Spanish.

I am quite ready with the first volume, which might appear by the middle of February (the best time in the whole season), and if we unite our strength in the second, I think we can produce something worthy of fame, for we shall have plenty of matter to employ talent upon .-- Most truly yours, GEORGE BORROW.
To Dr.John Bowring 17 GREAT RUSSELL STREET, BLOOMSBURY, _Jany.

14, 1830._ MY DEAR SIR,--I approve of the prospectus in every respect; it is business-like, and there is nothing flashy in it.

I do not wish to suggest one alteration.

I am not idle: I translated yesterday from your volume 3 longish _Kaempe Visers_, among which is the 'Death of King Hacon at Kirkwall in Orkney,' after his unsuccessful invasion of Scotland.