Correspondence between Colonel Burton and military and conservation colleagues covering a wide range of topics including big game hunting, travel, wild life and conservation issues.
The diary includes records and information on Lieutenant-Colonel Burton's career, interest in Shikar (hunting) and work on conservationism in India and South Asia. The records and entries relating to his career in the British, and later Indian Army cover the period 1887-1923 and include informa...
The diary includes detailed entries for hunting and fishing trips undertaken by Lieutenant-Colonel Burton from 1894-1948. For each trip there is a daily diary entry given details of location, route taken, geographic information, and animals seen and hunted. Some of the entries also include sketc...
The diary records a hunting trip taken by Lieutenant-Colonel Burton in Jeypur 1 January 1913 to 30 June 1913 and includes daily diary entries, the measurements and dimensions of the buffalo being hunted, sketches of the landscape and areas they were hunting in, and detailed expenditure lists for...
The diary records Lieutenant-Colonel Burton's trip to New Zealand 27 November 1936-29 May 1938 to explore the local wild life and fishing. The diary comprises daily entries of the along with sketches, photographs, press cuttings, articles and leaflets. The route to and from New Zealand include...
Map of the Fiji Islands, produced by the Land Department, Suva in 1927, with handwritten corrections by Lieutenant-Colonel Burton in 1936, to accompany the diary and photographs of his visit to Fiji. The map has been cut into squares and glued to a linen backing to enable it to be compactly fold...
12 star charts, handdrawn in ink by Lieutenant-Colonel Burton with accompanying notes regarding the constellations depicted in them. Also includes some general typed notes about the constellations shown.
Typed guides explaining how the diary entries are arranged and link across the red, black and loose diaries (Mss Eur F694/1/1-3). Three separate guides are included for the red, black and loose diaries.