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11. 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

12. 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

13. Add MS 88863

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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

14. Add MS 88861

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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

15. 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

16. 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
Extent:
1 file

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

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