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Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections24

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Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)10
Lyster, M Eileen1
Shorter, Clement King (1857-1926)1

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Borrow, (George Henry) Various works.

Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)

c.1830 - c.1950

Manuscript works by George Borrow

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Borrow (George Henry), The Bible in Spain, (parts) English-Romany vocabulary and letter.

Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)

June 1839

Autograph (handwritten) manuscript notebook containing the following: 1) "The Bible in Spain;" Chapter 14 entire, and fragments of Chapters 16, 52 and 53. [ ff. 1-15;] 2) draft of a letter rejecti...

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Borrow (George Henry) Lavengro, chapter 14, part.

Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)

c.1845

1) Double sided 1 page autograph (handwritten) manuscript from Lavengro, chapter 14. [This is referred to on a note as 'the immortal dialogue between Lavengro's mother and father as to the future of...

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Borrow (George Henry) Miscellaneous notes (Iberian peninsula, including The Bible in Spain; Manchu Testament; poems, etc.

Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)

c.1840

1) Undated leather bound notebook containing autograph (handwritten) manuscript, chiefly in pencil. Includes notes/drafts of parts for, "The Bible in Spain;" "Manchu Testament;" notes on his expens...

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Borrow (George Henry) Place-names: (3) fragment manuscripts

Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)

c.1830-1940

2 Holograph (handwritten) manuscript fragments with typed transcriptions and 1 file of correspondence and catalogue fragments concerning their purchase. Undated

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Borrow (George Henry) Romano lavo-lil: (5) fragments from various chapters

Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)

c.1864

Autograph (handwritten) manuscripts, of chapters from Romano lavo-lil. Including, "The English Gypsy Language," "Gypsy Names," "Metropolitan Gypsyries" and "Ryley Bosvil." Also some miscellaneous not...

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Borrow (George Henry) The Romany Rye, (3) Fragments inc. chapter 5-7

Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)

c.1851- c.1857

Autograph manucripts of 3 sections from The Romany Rye. Details of fragments are individually listed.

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Borrow (George Henry) Fragment about son of a thief

Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)

c.1870

1)Autograph (handwritten) manuscript of a note on a folk-tale with reference to seventh sons of seventh sons. [Possibly for Romano lavo-lil] Blue paper. 2)With typed transcript

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Borrow (George Henry) “Vocabulary of the Gypsy language as spoken in Hungary and Transylvania, compiled during an intercourse of some months with the Gypsies of those parts in the year 1844”.

Lyster, M Eileen

c.1930

2 notebooks containing manuscript (handwritten) transcription of Borrow's 24 sheet manuscript titled, " “Vocabulary of the Gypsy language as spoken in Hungary and Transylvania, compiled during an in...

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Borrow (George Henry) The Welsh and their literature (8) fragments and proof,

Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)

c.1830-1861

Autograph (handwritten) manuscript drafts for sections of Borrow’s anonymous review so entitled, published in (1861) concerning his own English version of E[l]lis Wyn[ne], The sleeping bard, 1860.

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Part of chapter 5 (Fragment 1)

c.1851- c.1857

1) Autograph (handwritten) manuscript fragment (1) of Chapter 5 on blue paper. Begins: “Many, too many of his countrymen” and ends with 5 lines of verse concluding: “sheard me naked”; ( 3 p...

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Part of chapter 6 (Fragment 2)

c.1851- c.1857

1) Autograph (handwritten) manuscript fragment (2) from Chap. 6. Begins “Here some people will exclaim” to "principles of my fathers." 3 pp., blue paper; at head in another hand: “Copied”...

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