SOUVENIR O F TH E E O R G E ' B O R R O C E L E B R AT TO N’ r h J l h 191 No wic , u y 5 t , 3 J AMES HOOPER PUB LI SHED FOR TH E C OMMI TTEE JARROLD SONS PUB L I SHE RS LONDON AND NORWICH SOUVENIR O F TH E B O R G E B O R R O W C E L E B RA T I O N l h 1 1 Norwich , J u y 5 t , 9 3 JAMES HOOPER PREPARED AND PUBLI SHED FOR THE C OMMI TTEE JARROLD SONS PUB L I SH E RS LONDON AND NORWICH D FOREWOR . THE Committ e e are indebt ed t o numerous Borrovi ans for the loan of I u t rati ns and nt ri uti ns of lit r r it ms t o the t t ll s o Co b o e a y e ex , t o Miss i l R for rmin Pe n Pi tur s o n k M. s E . h e r f s C . N cho , . , cha g c e oo ’ ill an the d rs o rr i . an rn f s n . co e Bo ow old home W ow L e , Rev F Mr . P ak r i Or rd for his r ciati st nzas and . fo h s de Wa app e ve a , E e e t o the Fl r whi lst s cial m nti n must ma of Ode owe , pe e o be de ’ Mu i i i rr A. J . nn ngs nspi ring des gn of George Bo ow and Pe t ulengro r kin the it of r i f r th c ove loo g C y No w ch o e over. LIST OF I LLUSTRATI ONS GEORGE BORROW ’ OO Y O O O E STAIRCASE D RWA , B RR W S H US ’ O O O GE RGE B RR W S BIRTHPLACE , DUMPLING GREEN , EAST DEREHAM PLAN OF E A E DUMPLING GR EN , E ST DER HAM ROGE R ! E RRISON ’ O . E N CR WN AND ANGEL, ST STEPH S THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL ’ O O HO O B RR W S USE , WILL W LANE THE N V E NO WINDI G RI ER , N AR RWICH Y NO H THE ARE AT EARLHAM , NEAR RWIC ’ R N NO W H THE ST A GERS HALL , R IC EARLHAM B RIDGE BOWLING GREEN INN WI LLIAM SIMPSON ’ ! O . TUC S C URT, ST GILES JOHN CROME THE WINDMILL ON MOUSEHOLD HEATH NE D PAINTER NORWICH CASTLE AND CATTLE MAR! ET IN ’ BORROW S TIME MARSHLAND SHALES ’ A QUAINT CORNER IN BORROW S HOUSE WILLIAM TAYLOR ’ O E O O O O O O GE RG B RR W S H USE , ULT N , NEAR L WES TOFT GEORGE BORROW I N 1 848 GEORGE BORROW (PAI NTED B Y HIS BROTHER) ’ CORNE R OF B ORROW S BEDROOM ’ O O O V B O ON Y GE RGE B RR W S GRA E , R MPT CEMETER ra w /3 4 fi Q ’ T RC E D Y To TT C RR H U S AI AS OORWA A I I N BO OW S O SE . B C N M . i . c o s R y h l , E . ’ T I RC E D R Y To T C I N U E S A AS OO WA AT I BORROW S HO S . B C N M . i . chols R E y , . G E O RG E B O RROW . Man Of the Boo t ou P r m of the Roa k, h ilg i d, The love of trave l D rave the e on ever with pursuing goad rust was th urn n t rut was th oa T y b i g ligh , T h y l d Swee t r e s for the wear to unrave iddl y l , Within thy bre ast G owe the ure fi re of an Eterna ues l d p l Q t. 2 The B e was th c art the o en sk ibl y h , p y Thy roof and rafter ’ Ofte n and t ou st earn n t s m ste r , h did l igh y y L earn n some tale from e ac oor asse r- b i g h p p y, Some rac u s cr h r r g io s e et for t e g and H e eafte r. Master of lore Occu t an wan er r n th d e o e w es s ore . l , d ild t h 3 a countr was not tro en th fe e t Wh t y dd by y , Nor bare d its bosom And fragrance to the life it l eapt to gre et ! From fi e ld and upland or whe re waters me e t W s o n the v r n w th ve e as e de e ossom. t l , i gi , il d bl I ts native tongue in e v r c mate n On stran er s e u . g lip , y li h g 4 Pursuer of sh at s all unte t n s y p h , h d hi g All creatures one l ly, Gypsy and fox and hawk wit h slante d wing s ese ran w t t e e at the same cosm c s r n s Th d k i h h i p i g , e se were th teac rs an th a mat s n Th y he d y pl y e o ly. N ature gave up To t e m and t ee a e he r e n cu h h lik , hidd p . 8 SOUVEN I R OF GEORGE BORROW CELEBRATI ON but were promptly felled by the brawny Borrow , and , to crown his - misdeeds , he knocked over the head borough , who happened to b W S his maltster master . H e isely fled , and hortly after enlisted a private soldier in the Coldstream Guards , and was soon quarter 1 2 was London . I n 79 , as a sergeant , he transferred to the Norfolk Regiment of Militia , with headquarters at East Dereham . company of players from Norwich frequently visited that nice littl TION ! Seven Sist ers (73 03) Dump /maGreen ’ ' H a l kcr 6 B ai l / (211 .9 6 N OF D U I NG GREEN E T DE REH AM PLA MPL , AS . By per mission of ] town , and in one of them appeared , as a supernumerary, Pe rfre me nt , the pretty daughter of a small farmer of !Dumpling Green , on the outskirts of the town . This maiden , of Huguenot descent , fascinated the Cornish soldier, and the two were married at 1 1 th 1 Dereham Church on February , 79 3 . The regiment was then about to start a wandering course over the highways of England at h Colchester ; in Norfolk ; t en at Sheerness , Sandgate , and Dover ; 1 80 2 - at Colchester once more in Kent ; Essex again , and then , in 3, th 1 80 at East Dereham , where George was born J uly s , 3 , in the 1 house of his maternal grandparents . O n J uly 7th he was baptized Mm Ma n d . By per mission of [ y ’ H M GEO RGE W H C D U MPL l N G G E D ER E A . BORRO S BI RT PLA E , REEN , AST Fr om n Zi/ r . A . L t by . C 7 [ e _ SOUVENI R OF GEORGE BORROW CELEBRATI ON 9 s George H enry, names of the king and of the elde t brother of w Captain Thomas Borro . “ As a mere infant Borrow was gloomy and fond of solitude , ever ” “ conscious , he says , of a peculiar heaviness within me , and at times Of of a strange sensation fear, which occasionally amounted to horror, ” and for which I could assign no real cause whatever . Of this earliest period he tells a characteristic story of drawing strange lines in the dust with his fingers , when a Jew pedlar came up and said The child is a sweet child , and he has all the look of one of our own people but when he leaned forward to inspect the lines in the dust , started back , and grew white as a sheet ; then , takin g off his hat , he made some strange gestures to me , cringing, chattering , and shortly ‘ ’ a nd departed , muttering something about holy letters , talking to ” himself in a strange tongue . This, in the first chapter of ” n - L ave n ro u . g , is in the tr e Borrovia mystery man style Again and again Borrow, throughout his life , suffered from some nervous ailment which defied definition ; thus, when he was fifteen , his strength and appetite deserted him and he pined and drooped , but a kind an ancient female , of doctress , who had been his nurse in his infancy, gave him a decoction of a bitter root growing on commons m and desolate places , fro which he took draughts till he was con ’ nt vale sce . I n any estimate of Borrow s life the strange attacks of “ ” “ what he called the Fear or the H orrors must be take n into u account .