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Add MS 88861-88877
- Record Id:
- 032-000005500
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000005500
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000035.0x00001f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88861-88877
- Title:
- Burton Manuscripts
- Scope & Content:
- Manuscripts and correspondence by and relating to Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) and his wife, Isabel, née Arundell (1831-1896).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-000005500", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 88861-88877: Burton Manuscripts" },{ "id" : "036-000005501", "parent" : "032-000005500", "text" : "Add MS 88861-88863: Autobiography" },{ "id" : "040-000005502", "parent" : "036-000005501", "text" : "Add MS 88861: Manuscript entitled, 'The Early Days of R. F. Burton/ begun on board Calypso—Bound for Bombay 1 January 1876 / Richard Burton's…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-000005503", "parent" : "036-000005501", "text" : "Add MS 88862: Fragments of autobiography and autobiographical notes.1. Autograph draft of his autobiography covering the period from his arrival in…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-000005504", "parent" : "036-000005501", "text" : "Add MS 88863: Passages in Isabel Burton's hand of revised passages of Burton's autobiography. With occasional additions by Burton and printed excerpts…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "036-000005505", "parent" : "032-000005500", "text" : "Add MS 88864-88865: African Expeditions" },{ "id" : "040-000005506", "parent" : "036-000005505", "text" : "Add MS 88864: Notebook, used by Burton as his letter book for the East African expeditions, containing autograph drafts and copies of 38 letters and…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-000005507", "parent" : "036-000005505", "text" : "Add MS 88865: Correspondence between Burton and John Hanning Speke, with related correspondence. 1. ff. 1-20. Letters to Burton from Speke, some with…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "036-000005508", "parent" : "032-000005500", "text" : "Add MS 88866-88874: Literary and Travel Writings" },{ "id" : "040-000005509", "parent" : "036-000005508", "text" : "Add MS 88866: Autograph draft, untitled and incomplete, of an 'Anglo-India glossary', containing satirical definitions of officers and practices;…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-000005510", "parent" : "036-000005508", "text" : "Add MS 88867: Notebook containing extensive autograph drafts of verse, original and in translation, with some notes on various subjects, in ink and…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-000005511", "parent" : "036-000005508", "text" : "Add MS 88868: 1. ff. 1-15. Autograph draft of an untitled humorous poem by Burton on Ireland, in 113 couplets; circa 1865. Written in a quarto…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-000005512", "parent" : "036-000005508", "text" : "Add MS 88869: 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…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-000005513", "parent" : "036-000005508", "text" : "Add MS 88870: 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,…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-000005514", "parent" : "036-000005508", "text" : "Add MS 88871: 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…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-000005515", "parent" : "036-000005508", "text" : "Add MS 88872: 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…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-000005516", "parent" : "036-000005508", "text" : "Add MS 88873: 1. ff. 1-18. Printed pages cut from John Payne's translation, Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (Villon Society, 1882-1884),…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-000005517", "parent" : "036-000005508", "text" : "Add MS 88874: Isabel Burton, 'My Deposition regarding the Scented Garden'; Mortlake, 16 Sept. 1893. Typewritten with autograph corrections and signed.…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "036-000005518", "parent" : "032-000005500", "text" : "Add MS 88875-88877: Correspondence" },{ "id" : "040-000005519", "parent" : "036-000005518", "text" : "Add MS 88875: Letters from Burton to Frank Wilson, his assistant at Fernando Po; 1862-1875, n.d. With modern typewritten copies. Followed (ff. 68, 69)…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-000005520", "parent" : "036-000005518", "text" : "Add MS 88876: Miscellaneous correspondence of Burton, chiefly letters from him to various correspondents, including one of 1872 to his wife;…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-000005521", "parent" : "036-000005518", "text" : "Add MS 88877: Correspondence of and relating to Isabel Burton; 1868-1911. Consisting of letters from her to several correspondents, including members…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000005500
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Add MS 88861-88863 : Autobiography
Add MS 88864-88865 : African Expeditions
Add MS 88866-88874 : Literary and Travel Writings
Add MS 88875-88877 : Correspondence
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- 032-000005500
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 17 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1840
- End Date:
- 1911
- Date Range:
- 1840s-1911
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Custodial History:
- Many items derive from the Arundell sales at Sotheby’s, 9 April 1963 and 2 March 1965, but some, particularly the correspondence in Add. MSS 88875-88877, constitute a collection put together from various provenances. See also Quentin Keynes sale, Christie’s, 7 April 2004.
- Former Internal References:
- Deposit 10380
Deposit 10457 - Source of Acquisition:
- Accepted by H. M. Government in Lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the British Library, March 2008.
- Arrangement:
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Arranged as follows:
- Autobiography
- African Expeditions
- Literary and Travel Writings
- Correspondence
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)