Manuscripts

Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890 and Verney Lovett Cameron, 1844-1894. To the Gold Coast…: A Personal Narrative: [Burton's pen drawing pasted down on inside of front marbled cover], A.MS.S. (1 p.), (1882, Mar. 28). Kirkpatrick Catalogue: 106

Description: Note: drawing with Burton's autograph notes in pencil; also enclosed: printed item. Please do not remove items from mylar.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1842-1947.
Call number: RBL 36(8)
Creator: Burton, Richard Francis (1821-1890)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Acquired from The Christensen Fund, Nov. 1997. At the time of Isabel Burton's death in 1896, the main part of Richard Burton's surviving manuscripts and library were deposited at the Central Library, Kensington; in 1955, the Royal Borough of Kensington gave the library to the Royal Anthropological Institute for safe-keeping. In 1986, The Christensen Fund acquired the entire library from the R.A.I., and deposited it at the Huntington Library, until November 1997, when The Christensen Fund formally gave the manuscripts and 2,500-volume library to the Huntington Library.
Associated people: Cameron, Verney Lovett, (1844-1894.); Charnock, Richard Stephen, (1820-1904 or 1905.); Colnaghi, Dominic E. (1834-1908.); Fergusson, Alexander, (1830-1892.); Greville, Violet, (1842-1932.); Latham, John, (-1880.); Pitt-Rivers, Augustus Henry Lane-Fox, (1827-1900.); Quaritch, Bernard, (1819-1899.); Tinsley, William, (1831-1902.); Wilson, H. Schütz (1824-1902.); Yule, Henry, (1820-1889.); Zotenberg, Hermann, (1836-1894.)
Associated organization: Chatto & Windus (Firm)
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