[George Borrow and His Circle by Clement King Shorter]@TWC D-Link bookGeorge Borrow and His Circle CHAPTER XIV 24/29
When you write to Finn Magnussen to thank him for his attention, pray request him to send the _Feeroiska Quida_, or popular songs of Ferroe, and also _Broder Run's Historie, or the History of Friar Rush_, the book which Thiele mentions in his _Folkesagn_ .-- Yours most sincerely, G.BORROW. To Dr.John Bowring 7 MUSEUM STREET, _June 7, 1830._ MY DEAR SIR,--I have looked over Mr.Grundtvig's manuscripts. 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.
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