At the commencement of his engagement with the Bible Society he writes to its secretary, Mr.Jowett (March 18, 1833), to say that he must procure from Mr.Cunningham 'a letter of introduction from him to John Gurney,' and this second and last interview must have taken place at Earlham before his departure for Russia.
But if Borrow was to come very little under the influence of Joseph John Gurney, his destiny was to be considerably moulded by the action of Gurney's brother-in-law, Cunningham, who first put him in touch with the Bible Society.

Joseph John Gurney and his sisters were the very life of the Bible Society in those years.
FOOTNOTES: [34] See _The Gurneys of Earlham_ by Augustus J.C.Hare, 2 vols., 1895; _Memoirs of Joseph Gurney; with Selections from his Journal and Correspondence_, edited by Joseph Bevan Braithwaite, 2 vols., 1834..