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Letter from Richard Burton to A.G. Ellis to ask whether the British Manuscripts contains the Proverbs et Dictons de la Syrie par Carlos Sandberg. Handwritten from Langhams (London), dated 10 August [1888]. With original envelope postmarked 12 August 1888 and annotated transcription.

Letter from Richard Burton to A.G. Ellis concerning whether engravings by Marc-Antoine Raimondi form part of the Willett Collection at the British Museum. Handwritten from Trieste, dated 8 May 1889. With original envelope and with annotated transcription.

"Lord Beaconsfield. A Sketch. By Captain Richard F. Burton". [1882] On the fly-leaf “Given to me by Mr Francis Hitchman; the biographer of Lord Beaconsfield. Only 25 copies printed. R. Garnett.” Green quarter and corners leather, green and black marbled boards. Ex libris: Archibald Philip, Earl of Rosebery.

"Ascent of the Congo River. Confidential Report printed for the Use of the Foreign Office, September 6, 1864. By Consul Burton of his Ascent of the Congo River in September, 1863". Unbound sheets. ‘Kensington Public Library. Burton’. Handwritten note ‘Withdrawn for exchange Herbert Jones 20.3.13.’

The Kasidah, first edition, second issue. Stiff light yellow paper with half title and three lines of Arabic script in black. Inscribed on front cover: “Harrison Veevers 1885.” Note on separate slip “Title page added and printed (sic) later by Quaritch.” Page block breaking up.

Episode of Dona Ignez de Castro. The Lusiads of Camoens, Canto III, stanzas 118-135, printed for private circulation 1879, Harrison & Sons, London. This is a typewritten copy of RB/2/10. Typed Copy of Pamphlet originally in the Kensington Library (now in the Huntingdon Library, California).

Report Upon the Minerals of Midian. Alexandria: The Alexandria Stationers and Booksellers Co. Ltd., 1880. This is a slightly abridged version of the Preface to The Land of Midian (Revisited). Typed Copy of Pamphlet originally in the Kensington Library (now in the Huntington Library, California).

The Thermae of Monfalcone (aqua dei et vitae). London, Horace Cox, The Field Office, 1881. Offprint reprinted from The Field newspaper, 12 November, 17 and 24 December 1881, London, Horace Cox. Typed Copy of Reprint originally in the Kensington Library (now in the Huntington Library, California).

Two photographs. One is a studio portrait by Ernest Edwards of Burton in Turkish costume,dating from 1863. The second is of Burton in a Spanish shirt dated to around 1874.

Wax impression of Richard Burton’s “joke” seal with accompanying sketch of seal by Bernadette Rivett. The motto states:’Don't you wish you may get it’.

In correspondence held in the Royal Asiatic Society Library Archives, Mary S. Lovell suggests that the wax seal was produced by one side of a three-sided seal device made for Burton. One side carried the Burton arms, the second the Burton motto and the third was the thumb to nose cartoon found within this archive. Burton gave it to his cousin George Burton, with the advice to use it when he wrote to a 'damned snob'. Present whereabouts of the seal is unknown.