The biography as it stands in the 1871 edition of _Men of the Time_ appears to have been compiled from the earlier of these drafts.

It must have been another copy of Draft No.

1 that was forwarded to the editor: DRAFT I .-- George Henry Borrow, born at East Dereham in the county of Norfolk in the early part of the present century.

His father was a military officer, with whom he travelled about most parts of the United Kingdom.

He was at some of the best schools in England, and also for about two years at the High School at Edinburgh.