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Henry Burton Papers
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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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Sir Richard Francis Burton Papers
Manuscripts
This collection contains personal, official, business, and social correspondence and manuscripts of British explorer and writer Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) and his wife, Lady Isabel Burton (1831-1896), chiefly covering the period of Burton's consulship in Trieste and Lady Burton's life after her husband's death. The collection contains very little early material for Richard and Isabel Burton, but it does include almost all of Burton's work on Camoens, in various drafts over a number of years. There is also a large group of letters between Isabel Burton and Leonard C. Smithers, and other publishers, editors, and lawyers which detail the, sometimes torturous, publication process in late nineteenth-century England. The collection was assembled by Edwards H. Metcalf over more than thirty years. The papers consist of the following series: 1. Manuscripts (Boxes 1-21). The manuscripts include a selection of Burton's literary works, mainly from his later writing career. Included in this series are: travel journals, essays, a few poems, and his translation of Ariosto…Roland the Rageful, his Camoens notes and translations, and his translation of Ladislaus Magyar. This series also includes manuscripts by other authors, most notably by Isabel Burton, Edward Rehatsek, Leonard C. Smithers, and Henry Yule. 2. Correspondence (Boxes 22-46). This series includes Burton's personal letters, business letters related to gold mining enterprises, and letters related to his writing; also included are a small number of Isabel Burton's personal letters and a large number of letters with various publishers, booksellers, and lawyers concerning the publication of Burton's works. This series also includes letters from notable people in the fields of exploration and publishing: Verney Lovett Cameron, Charles George Gordon, William Forsell Kirby, and Leonard C. Smithers. 3. Other Scholars Material (Boxes 47-50). This series includes mostly research material and correspondence dealing with Apuleius‟ "Golden Ass," the publication of erotic literature, and various translation projects by Alfred Richard Allinson, Charles A. Groves, John Payne, Theodore Watts-Dunton, and Thomas Wright. 4. Extra Oversize Material (Box 51). Included in this series is a portrait proof engraving of Richard Burton by Frederic Leighton; also, 21 hand-drawn maps of Midian, many with Arabic captions and autograph notes by Burton. 5. Other Scholars Material (Boxes 52-55). This series includes research and manuscript material for Fawn Brodie, including her Burton biography, The Devil Drives. 6. Ephemera (Boxes 56-59). Box 56 contains invoices, printed material, photographs, and transcriptions (1873-1896); box 57 contains book reviews, Mary S. Lovell material, photocopies, and printed material (1964-2000); box 58 contains photocopies; and box 59 contains prints and ephemera.
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Burton-Smithers Papers
Manuscripts
The collection consists mainly of letters from Isabel Burton and Richard Burton to Leonard Charles Smithers from 1885 to 1892, the collection also contains a printed prospectus for The Arabian Nights, a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne, a photograph of Isabel Burton and a lithograph of Richard Burton.
mssHM 27955, 78887-79014
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Burke E. Casari Papers
Manuscripts
This collection consists of one manuscript by Richard F. Burton, and letters and documents, by, among others, Isabel Burton, Richard Burton, Verney Lovett Cameron, William Marcus Coghlan, J. A. Froude, Charles George Gordon, J. A. Grant, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Quentin Keynes, Alexander William Kinglake, David Livingstone, Mary Lovell, Victoria L. Maylor, Edwards H. Metcalf, Edward Henry Palmer, Bernadette Rivett, Stephen Tabachnick, John Hanning Speke, Henry M. Stanley, and William H. Wood. The collection also includes artwork, lithographs, maps, photographs, printed material and Burton related research material gathered by Burke Casari. The papers consist of the following series: 1. Manuscript, Correspondence, Documents & Photographs (Boxes 1-2) are arranged alphabetically by author and subject. This series includes one manuscript by Richard Burton and letters and documents by, among others, Isabel Burton, Richard Burton, Verney Lovett Cameron, J. A. Froude, Charles George Gordon, J. A. Grant, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Alexander William Kinglake, David Livingstone, Victoria L. Maylor, Edward Henry Palmer, John Hanning Speke and Henry M. Stanley. This series also includes photographs of Isabel Burton, Emin Pasha, Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) and David Livingstone. 2. Oversize Correspondence, Etching, Lithographs, Maps & Printed Material (Box 3) is arranged alphabetically by author and subject. This series includes correspondence between William Marcus Coghlan and Peter M. Melvill, Frederick Leighton's portrait of Burton, Vanity Fair lithographs, as well as maps of Africa, India and Sierra Leone dating from 1748-1880. This series also includes various Burton-related pages from the Illustrated London News. 3. Research Material (Box 4 - Red Slip Case). This series includes original published pages from The Athenæum, with articles by and about Richard Burton; including reviews of his publications and contributions by Burton, (1852-1906), 362 pages. 4. Research Material (Boxes 5-7) is arranged by subject and format. This material was collected by Burke Casari during his Burton research; it includes correspondence, printed material, photocopies of Burton articles and manuscripts, prints of Burton images, modern photos, research notes and clippings. The correspondence includes, among others, Quentin Keynes, Mary S. Lovell, Edward H. Metcalf, Bernadette Rivett and Stephen E. Tabachnick. 5. Kama Sutra (Box 8). Bound volume of a manuscript copy by an unknown author. 6. Correspondence and Research Material (Box 9) is arranged alphabetically by author. This series includes letters from Isabel Burton and Richard Burton to William Martin Wood and his wife, Mrs. William Martin Wood. This correspondence was removed from the Album now cataloged as Box 10. This series also includes research material collected by Burke Casari in support of his acquisition of the Kama Sutra and the album of correspondence; it includes email, photocopies and autograph notes. 7. Album (Box 10). Leather album and box; originally contained Burton and Wood correspondence.
mssHM 78795-78885, 80305-80324
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Burton : snow upon the desert
Rare Books
"In this centennial biography, Frank McLynn draws on new material from a wealth of untapped manuscript sources in order to clarify events in Burton's life hitherto dealt with sketchily if at all. He places Burton's adventures firmly in their historical context. He offers a challenging and original psychological portrait both of Burton himself and of John Hanning Speke, his companion and rival in the quest for the sources of the Nile and the 'Mountains of the Moon.' Not neglected either is Burton's formidable and controversial wife, Isabel, herself a psychological 'classic'. The result is a disturbing but compelling portrait of a man many claim to have been the greatest of all the 'Eminent Victorians'."--dust jacket.
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Henri Coulette Papers
Manuscripts
The papers consist of the following series: Papers 1. Correspondence (Boxes 1-3). The correspondence is filed alphabetically by author. Among the authors writing to Coulette are: Philip Levine, Robert L. Barth, Robert Mezey, and Timothy Steele. An especially illuminating letter about Coulette (who remained somewhat of a mystery throughout his life) is one written in 1990 by Norman Fruman to Robert Mezey (Box 1 (44)). 2. Manuscripts by Coulette and others (Boxes 4-11). The manuscripts are arranged into the following series: Notebooks by Coulette (Boxes 4-6); poems and book length poems by Coulette (Boxes 7-9); manuscripts by Coulette and others (Box 10); poems and manuscripts by others (Box 11). All manuscripts and poems are filed alphabetically except for the notebooks and tablets, some of which are filed numerically. Included in poems by others are poems by Philip Levine, who, over the years, sent many poems to Coulette for his opinion. Coulette's notebooks and many drafts of his poems allow a researcher to trace the evolution of a poem from conception to final product. 3. Ephemera (Boxes 11-14, oversize folder). The ephemera folders are filed alphabetically and include journal issues, awards and diplomas, newspaper and magazine clippings, and various personal papers. Addenda Part I 4. Addenda Part I. Consists of 18 reel-to-reel audiotapes (Box 15) with unknown content and two oversize folders containing copies of poems. Addenda Part II Addenda Part II is arranged in the following series: 5. Correspondence and Manuscripts (Box 16); 6. Manuscripts and Ephemera (Box 17); 7. Ephemera (Box 18). 5. The Correspondence series is arranged alphabetically by author. The series consists largely of letters regarding the publication The Collected Poems of Henri Coulette. The book was compiled after Coulette's death by his close friends, colleagues, and book editors Donald Justice and Robert Mezey. Copies of Coulette's poems as well as revisions made to the book by Justice and Mezey accompany these letters. Justice and Mezey would make revisions and send these corrections to one another and to the book's publisher the University of Arkansas Press. Once the book was published it received an unfavorable review from poet Philip Levine. Letters can be found within this series which relate to that negative review and include reactions from Justice, Mezey, various publishing companies, and fellow poets. 6. The Manuscripts series is arranged alphabetically and includes poems, book reviews, and articles written by Coulette and fellow writers: Anthony Cave Brown, Robert Dana, Nelle Fertig, Henri Coulette Papers -- Finding Aid -- page 5 Elton Glaser, Michael S. Harper, Elizabeth Nicholas, Eric Pankey, Michael Shepler, and Jerry Tutunjian. Also included are drafts, revisions, and notes made by Justice and Mezey to The Collected Poems of Henri Coulette manuscript. 7. The Ephemera series is arranged alphabetically and includes journal issues, newspaper and magazine clippings, a copy of Coulette's Curriculum Vitae ca. 1984, a printed notice for a Coulette poetry reading, and pamphlets relating to the Venice Simplon Orient Express in 1984.
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