To the Rev.A.Brandram (ENDORSED:recd.June 23,1838)JUNE 13,1838,MADRID,No.16CALLE ST.IAGO,REVD.AND DEAR SIR,-I have received your letter of June 1st,but not that of the 30th May which you allude to in the same,therefore I am still in the dark upon many points.
Another bitter cup has been filled for my swallowing.The Bible Society and myself have been accused of blasphemy,sedition,etc.
A collection of tracts has been seized in Murcia,in which the Catholic religion and its dogmas are handled with the most abusive severity;these books have been sworn to as having been left BY THECOMMITTEE OF THE BIBLE SOCIETY WHILST IN THAT TOWN,and Count Ofalia has been called upon to sign an order for my arrest and banishment from Spain.Sir George,however,advises me to remain quiet and not to be alarmed;as he will answer for my innocence.
I am now compelled to ask a blunt question.Will the Bible Society look calmly on and see itself compromised and my life and liberty exposed to danger by the lunatic vagaries of that unfortunate Graydon,who,like a swine in a field newly sown,has of late been solely occupied in rooting up the precious seed and destroying every hope of a glorious harvest?The newspapers are teeming with articles against us,for we are no longer looked upon as a Society founded on the broad principles of Christianity,but as one instituted for the carrying into effect of sectarian purposes.
In justice to me,it behoves the Society to communicate with Sir George Villiers,who has abstracts of all the letters which I have written to the Society,and who will vouch for their correctness.
Do not be cast down;all will go well if the stumbling block be removed.I write in haste.
G.BORROW.
P.S.-What do you mean,my dear Sir,by the 'GRANO SALIS'?