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1. Add MS 88866

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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...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
nd
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1 file

2. Add MS 88867

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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...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
nd
Extent:
1 volume

3. 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 (...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1865
Extent:
1 file

4. 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
Extent:
1 file

5. 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?]
Extent:
1 file

6. 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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 file

7. 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

8. 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
Extent:
1 file

9. 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

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