Finally, a very considerable portion of the collection came into the hands of Mr.
Webber, a bookseller of Ipswich, who later became associated with the firm of Jarrold of Norwich.

From Webber Dr.Knapp purchased the larger portion, and, as his bibliography indicates (_Life_, vol.ii.

pp.
355-88), he became possessed of sundry notebooks which furnish a record of certain of Borrow's holiday tours, about a hundred letters from and to Borrow, and a considerable number of other documents.

The result, as I have indicated, was a book that abounded in new facts and is rich in new material.

It was not, however, a book for popular reading.