He had started in gaol another journal, _The Museum_, and he combined this with his hosiery business for some time longer, when an opportune fire relieved him of an apparently uncongenial burden, and with the insurance money in his pocket he set out for London once more.

Here he started as a hosier in St.Paul's Churchyard, lodging meantime in the house of a milliner, where he fell in love with one of the apprentices, Miss Griffiths, 'a native of Wales.' His affections were won, we are naively informed in the _Memoir_, by the young woman's talent in the preparation of a vegetable pie.

This is our first glimpse of Lady Phillips--'a quiet, respectable woman,' whom Borrow was to meet at dinner long years afterwards.

Inspired, it would seem, by the kindly exhortation of Dr.
Priestley, he now transformed his hosiery business in St.Paul's Churchyard into a 'literary repository,' and started a singularly successful career as a publisher.

There he produced his long-lived periodical, _The Monthly Magazine_, which attained to so considerable a fame.