I have toiled in a close printing-office the whole day, during ninety degrees of heat, for the purpose of setting an example, and have bribed people to work whom nothing but bribes would induce so to do.

I am obliged to say all this in self-justification.

No member of the Bible Society would ever have heard a syllable respecting what I have undergone but for the question, 'What has Mr.Borrow been about ?'[105] It is not my intention to add materially to the letters of Borrow from Russia and from Spain that have already been published, although many are in my possession.

They reveal an aspect of the life of Borrow that has been amply dealt with by other biographers, and it is an aspect that interests me but little.

Here, however, is one hitherto unpublished letter that throws much light upon Borrow's work at this time: To the Rev.Andrew Brandram ST.