George Borrow's Strange Experiences in Man
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Description: Account of Borrow's visit to the Isle of Man and a transcript of his manuscript.
unpublished document 218 - George Borrow's strange experiences in Man George Borrow's strange experiences in Man One of His Manuscripts Secured for the Museum ONE of the greatest masters of English literature, George Henry Borrow, visited Man in the year 1855, and wrote a diary of his experiences during the ten weeks he made the Island his home. He had published in 1844 The Bible in Spain, and in 1851 what is considered to be his greatest work, Lavengro. After touring Cornwall, in which county he was born, he took an extended walking tour through the most romantic parts of Wales. The literary results of the Welsh holiday were many notebooks from which Wild Wales was subsequently written. He chose the Isle of Man in the year 1855 because, as he said, it attracted him 'as , a land of legend and quaint customs and speech.' Accordingly, on the morning of the 22nd of August he set sail in the steamer Tynwald for Douglas. Keenly inquisitive as usual, he could not forbear questioning the sailors about the Manx language during the passage. Being one of the most proficient linguists ever known - he was a master of some thirty or forty languages - he at once set about comparing the Irish with the Manx spoken by the sailors.
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