Manuscripts
Manuscripts
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Manuscripts
Note: written by a secretary but signed by Burton. Removed to Oversize Box 46.
RFB 267
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Manuscripts
Note: some letters in French, some are draft letters written by a secretary or Isabel Burton, with autograph notes by Richard Burton. RFB 293 originally enclosed in: [Midian Expeditions…], [1877-1878]; now cataloged separately in Manuscripts. RFB 300 and 301 removed to Oversize Box 46
RFB 293-305
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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 153
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Manuscripts
In secretarial hand; signed by Burton, with a few autograph corrections. Note: addressed to "Sir."
RFB 317
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Manuscripts
Note: in French. Followed by autograph, draft of a letter from Burton to Hussein Kamil, Sultan of Egypt, 1852-1917, May 20, 1878 (1 p.).
RFB 301
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Manuscripts
Note: very fragile -- handle carefully. In the hand of Isabel Burton; draft letter, with autograph additions and corrections by Richard Burton.
RFB 291