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11. Add MS 88868

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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
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1 file

12. 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...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1884, nd
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1 file

13. Add MS 88864

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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

14. 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...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1862-1875, nd
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1 file

15. Add MS 88869

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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
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1 file

16. Add MS 88870

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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?]
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1 file

17. 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 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1880-1887
Extent:
1 file

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