Manuscripts
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890. 2 letters to Verney Lovett Cameron, 1844-1894, A.L.S. (4 p.), ([1878?]-[1882]), Trieste (Austria)
- Description
Note: RFB 273, on verso: letter from [B Clauss]?, to Richard Burton, July 31, 1882 (2 p), and a reply to Burton's letter from Cameron, n.d., (1 p.).
- Production date
- 1846-2003.
- Call number
- RFB 272-273
- Provenance
- Gift of Edwards H. Metcalf, October 1992. The bulk of the collection was acquired by Mr. Metcalf at two Sotheby's sales, in 1963 and 1965, featured the property of R.J.R. Arundell who had inherited them from Lady Burton. Smaller groups and individual items came from various booksellers in Britain and the United States, including Spink & Son, Ltd, Maggs Brothers, David Bickersteth, Howard S. Mott, III, John Shroeder, Argus Bookshop, David Magee Bookshop, Bennett & Marshall, Bertram Rota, and others. The collection of papers of A.R. Allinson was purchased from Robert W. Mann in 1979.
