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[Note concerning Burton's stay in Brazil]
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Kirkpatrick reference: 310 Description: p. 461-464 Periodical title: Anthropological review Issue No.: Vol. VI, no. 23 (October 1868) Imprint: London Notes: Title from ms. inscription on front flyleaf. Burton information on pages 462-463. Padded with blank leaves.
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Omar Khayyam. Ruba'iyyāt-i Hakīm Khayyām. [Rubā̄ʻīyāt]
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Kirkpatrick reference: 969 Description: [104] pages Imprint: [Tehran?] Notes: Also includes quatrains of Bābā Tāhir Hamadānī, 'Attār, and Irich Mīrzā (Insāf), a tarji' by Shams-i Tabrīzī, and one by Nāsir-i Khusrau. Ownership notes: Inscription on front flyleaf: Richard Burton's copy.
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Practical Geometry
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A.MS. 38 leaves 4to. A note of presentation and page headings in ornamental pen work, in another hand; with inscription on the flyleaf: Master Ruskin, Jan. 21, 1833.
HM 6103
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Erinnerungsblätter
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These "Remembrance Leaves" are signed autograph poems, notes, and religious sayings, some with watercolor illustrations; there is also a pressed flower and a braid of hair. Thirty-three leaves are in German and one leaf is in English; there are also unused blank leaves. The leaves are housed in a green leather, gold embossed box made to look like an autograph album; the corners have some damage and the front cover is loose.
mssHM 82874
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John Ruskin and Louise Blandy Papers
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This collection contains eighty-seven letters, primarily written from English art critic and author John Ruskin to his drawing and painting pupil Louise Blandy, discussing her studies and chronicling their relationship. There is one letter to Ruskin from Edward Burne-Jones and a letter from Joan Severn to Mrs. Blandy. Included also are a sketch by Blandy, two photographs, and Louise Blandy's album where the letters were originally kept. Preserved in the album are three page of pressed leaves, flowers, and mosses.
mssHM 57251-57339
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Songs from the poets: illuminated book of poems
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This is a book of poems written and illustrated by Green. Although the book is undated, there is an inscription by Green on the title page: "These illuminations, made in my early youth, preceded the publication of my first book The Leavenworth case." There is another inscription by Green to her son Roland Rohlfs: "To Roland with love from Mother, May 20, 1930," and another inscription by her son Roland: "And now to Rosamond II with love from Roland, 11/12/1961." This book had previously been on display in an exhibit about Charles Rohlfs.
mssHM 81091