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032-000005500 Collection Area Western Manuscripts

1. Add MS 88861-88877

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Title:
Burton Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts and correspondence by and relating to Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) and his wife, Isabel, née Arundell (1831-1896).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1840s-1911
Extent:
17 volumes

2. Add MS 88875-88877

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Title:
Correspondence
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1854-1911
Extent:
3 files

3. Add MS 88866-88874

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Title:
Literary and Travel Writings
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1846-1893
Extent:

8 files and 1 volume

4. Add MS 88861-88863

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Title:
Autobiography
Scope & Content:
Fragments of autobiography, partly in the hand of Burton and partly in that of his wife. Intended by Burton for his autobiography but completed and used by his wife after his death in The Life of Captain Sir Richard Burton (1893).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1840s - after 1887
Extent:
3 volumes

5. Add MS 88864-88865

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Title:
African Expeditions
Scope & Content:
Records of Burton's expeditions to East Africa with John Hanning Speke (the expedition to Somalia and to the Lake regions of Africa to search for the source of the Nile).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1854-1872
Extent:
1 volume and 1 file

6. Add MS 88876

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Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous correspondence of Burton, chiefly letters from him to various correspondents, including one of 1872 to his wife; 1854-1887. A collection with various provenances, including some typewritten transcripts and printed sale catalogue excerpts. The letters from Burton are to Sir R. Marti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1854-1887
Extent:
1 file

7. Add MS 88862

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Scope & Content:
Fragments of autobiography and autobiographical notes. 1. Autograph draft of his autobiography covering the period from his arrival in Bombay in Oct. 1842 to his departure from India March 1849. 33 pages 2. Autograph draft entitled 'Beatson's Horse', with chapter title and the last 9 ½ pages i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1840s-1887
Extent:
1 file

8. Add MS 88877

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Scope & Content:
Correspondence of and relating to Isabel Burton; 1868-1911. Consisting of letters from her to several correspondents, including members of her family, her husband (ff. 54-57) and 'Ouida' (Marie Louise de la Ramee), 1870-1894; followed by letters to her from Edgar Prestage, 1894-1896 (ff. 80-111)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1868-1911
Extent:
1 file

9. Add MS 88866

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Scope & Content:
Autograph draft, untitled and incomplete, of an 'Anglo-India glossary', containing satirical definitions of officers and practices; n.d., but the last page is written on the verso of an address leaf of a letter to Burton in Bombay, and post-marked Aug. 1846. Incomplete, consisting of pages number...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
nd
Extent:
1 file

10. Add MS 88865

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Title:
Scope & Content:
Correspondence between Burton and John Hanning Speke, with related correspondence. 1. ff. 1-20. Letters to Burton from Speke, some with Burton's draft replies; 1859-1860. Printed in RC, pp. 154-160, 162-165, 167-172, 178-181 2. ff. 21-36. Letters from Speke to other correspondents, including ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1859-1872
Extent:
1 file

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