Manuscripts
Burton, Isabel, Lady, 1831-1896. 1 letter to [Alice Edith Oldham Smithers], A.L.S. (2 p.), (1891, Feb. 25), London (Eng.)
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[Burton, Isabel, Lady, 1831-1896]. 1 card to Leonard C. (Leonard Charles) Smithers, 1861- 1907, A.N. (1 p.), ([1891, June])
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Note: A.N., addressed to "Mr & Mrs Smithers" on verso of card with printed invitation to Sir Richard F. Burton's funeral.
HM 78904
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Smithers, Alice Edith. 2 letters to Lady Isabel Burton, 1831-1896, (1891), Sheffield (Eng.)
Manuscripts
Collection of Burtoniana -- correspondence, manuscripts, research papers, and ephemera -- assembled by Edwards H. Metcalf over more than thirty years. The collection contains personal, official, business, and social correspondence and manuscripts of Sir Richard Francis Burton and Lady Isabel Burton, chiefly covering the period of Burton's consulship in Trieste and Lady Burton's life after her husband's death.
RFB 855-856
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Burton, Isabel, Lady, 1831-1896. 1 letter to Victoria Maylor, carbon copy (L., typewritten: 2 p.), (1894, Feb. 2), London (Eng.)
Manuscripts
With autograph comments and corrections by Leonard Smithers.
RFB 221
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Burton-Smithers Papers
Manuscripts
This collection consists mainly of letters from Isabel Burton (1831-1896) and her husband, British explorer and writer Richard Burton (1821-1890), to their friend London publisher Leonard Charles Smithers (1861-1907) from 1885 to 1892 1. Correspondence & Manuscripts (Box 1) are arranged alphabetically by author. This box includes letters from Isabel Burton and Richard Burton to Leonard Smithers. This box also includes a draft manuscript by Isabel Burton offering a "pious memento" in return for prayers for Richard Burton's release from purgatory and a printed prospectus for Burton's Arabian Nights. 2. Correspondence, Manuscripts, Photograph & Ephemera (Box 2) are arranged alphabetically by author and subject. This box includes letters from Richard Burton to Leonard Smithers; the final letter is dated less than a month before Burton's death on Oct. 19, 1890. Also included in this box is a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne, a signed photograph of Isabel Burton, a lithograph of Richard Burton and ephemera.
mssHM 27955, mssHM 78887-79014
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Smithers, Leonard C. (Leonard Charles), 1861-1907. 53 letters and 2 notes to Lady Isabel Burton, 1831-1896, (1894), London (Eng.) and Paris (France)
Manuscripts
Note: some letters written by a secretary and signed by Smithers.
RFB 1097-1151
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Smithers, Leonard C. (Leonard Charles), 1861-1907. 23 letters and 1 note to Lady Isabel Burton, 1831-1896, (1894-1895), London, Brighton and Margate (Eng.)
Manuscripts
Note: some letters written by a secretary and signed by Smithers.
RFB 1152-1175