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11. Add MS 88871

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Autograph working draft of Burton's poem 'The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi/A Lay of the Higher Law/', which purported to be a translation from the Persian by 'Frank Baker' (a pseudonym of Burton). Including the poem (in couplets) and the explanatory notes, with many revisions and including matt...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1879
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1 file

12. Add MS 88872

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1. ff. 1-18. Autograph draft of a review of Sir F. J. Goldsmid's biography of Sir James Outram, 1st Bart. (1803-1863), of the East India Company; circa 1880. Written on sheets of quarto paper, with the main text on the rectos and corrections on the versos, and entitled 'Outram' by Burton on the ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1880-1887
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1 file

13. Add MS 88873

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1. ff. 1-18. Printed pages cut from John Payne's translation, Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (Villon Society, 1882-1884), consisting of vol. 2, pp. 173-301, 'The Merchant of Cairo and the favourite of the Khalif El Mamoun El Hakim Bi Amrillah', and vol. 3, pp. 141-163, 'Shehrzad and S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1884, nd
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1 file

14. Add MS 88874

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Isabel Burton, 'My Deposition regarding the Scented Garden'; Mortlake, 16 Sept. 1893. Typewritten with autograph corrections and signed. Referring to the manuscript of her husband's unfinished work which she destroyed at Trieste after his death. With the envelope, annotated by her, 'Scented garde...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1889-1893
Extent:
1 file

15. Add MS 88875

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Letters from Burton to Frank Wilson, his assistant at Fernando Po; 1862-1875, n.d. With modern typewritten copies. Followed (ff. 68, 69) by two fragments of maps, drawn by Burton in ink, dating from Burton's posting at Fernando Po, off the coast of West Africa, the first showing the coastal regi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1862-1875, nd
Extent:
1 file

16. Add MS 88876

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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

17. Add MS 88877

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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

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