Search

Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 88861-88877 Digitised Content No Level [40] File

1. Add MS 88861

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88861
Title:
Scope & Content:
Manuscript entitled, 'The Early Days of R. F. Burton/ begun on board Calypso—Bound for Bombay 1 January 1876 / Richard Burton's biography dictated to Isabel Burton'; covering the period 1876-1884. Draft in the hand of Isabel Burton, with autograph additions and corrections by Burton on the first ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1876-1884
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 88862

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88862
Title:
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

3. Add MS 88863

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88863
Title:
Scope & Content:
Passages in Isabel Burton's hand of revised passages of Burton's autobiography. With occasional additions by Burton and printed excerpts and proof sheets pasted in. The first 17 folios, which have contemporary numeration, are written on sheets which appear to have been torn from a volume similar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1887
Extent:
1 file

4. Add MS 88864

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88864
Title:
Scope & Content:
Notebook, used by Burton as his letter book for the East African expeditions, containing autograph drafts and copies of 38 letters and memoranda from him to the Royal Geographical Society, East India Company, and various officials, with letters addressed to Burton, and other documents, bills, pri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1855-1859
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 88865

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88865
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

6. Add MS 88866

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88866
Title:
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

7. Add MS 88867

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88867
Title:
Scope & Content:
Notebook containing extensive autograph drafts of verse, original and in translation, with some notes on various subjects, in ink and pencil, heavily corrected, cancelled and revised; n.d. but mostly in Burton's earlier hand, with those on the first and last leaves in a smaller and later hand. S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
nd
Extent:
1 volume

8. Add MS 88868

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88868
Title:
Scope & Content:
1. ff. 1-15. Autograph draft of an untitled humorous poem by Burton on Ireland, in 113 couplets; circa 1865. Written in a quarto notebook with marbled paper covers (back cover missing). 2. ff. 16-42. 'The Curse of the Muse upon one certain Dr Polyglott Ph.D.'; aft. 1865. Two autograph drafts (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1865
Extent:
1 file

9. Add MS 88869

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88869
Title:
Scope & Content:
1. ff. 1-103. Autograph draft in pencil by Burton, inscribed by him on the outer wrapper, 'Bayrut' and on the inner wrapper, 'Hebron (El Kahlil) and the Cave Tombs of the Patriarchs'. Folios have numeration by Burton; insertions include (pasted on the verso of 55 [f. 58v]) a plan, with key, of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1871
Extent:
1 file

10. Add MS 88870

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88870
Title:
Scope & Content:
1. ff. 1-4. Notes by Burton on names of tribes in East Africa; circa 1873. Four octavo pages, stitched. 2. ff. 5-11. Autograph draft, headed 'Preface to Second Edition', ie, of Ultima Thule, or a Summer in Iceland (1875), with corrections in Burton's hand and that of his wife. On loose quarto ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1873-[1876?]
Extent:
1 file

Limit your search