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Add MS 88861-88863
- Record Id:
- 036-000005501
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000005500
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000015.0x0000b1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88861-88863
- Title:
- Autobiography
- Scope & Content:
- Fragments of autobiography, partly in the hand of Burton and partly in that of his wife. Intended by Burton for his autobiography but completed and used by his wife after his death in The Life of Captain Sir Richard Burton (1893).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000005500
036-000005501 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88861-88877 : Burton Manuscripts
Add MS 88861-88863 : Autobiography - Contains:
- Add MS 88861 : Manuscript entitled, 'The Early Days of R. F. Burton/ begun on board Calypso—Bound for Bombay 1 January 1876 / Richard…
Add MS 88862 : Fragments of autobiography and autobiographical notes.1. Autograph draft of his autobiography covering the period from his arrival…
Add MS 88863 : Passages in Isabel Burton's hand of revised passages of Burton's autobiography. With occasional additions by Burton and…
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- 032-000005500[0001]/036-000005501
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- Series
- Extent:
- 3 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1840
- End Date:
- 1887
- Date Range:
- 1840s - after 1887
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Custodial History:
- Sotheby’s, 9 April 1963, lots 559, 572.
- Publications:
- See John Hayman 'Burton as Autobiographer', In Search of Sir Richard Burton: Papers from a Huntington Library Symposium, ed. Alan H. Jutzi (San Marino, 1993), pp. 27-45.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)