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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.

Wooden walking stick with chameleon handle with silver collar bearing the inscription “From the King of Dahomey to Captain R Burton 1863.” This was presumably Gelele, King of Dahomey, (acc. 1858, dep. 1894). Burton’s mission to him in this year is described in "A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome (now Republic of Benin), with notices of the so-called “Amazons”, the Grand Customs, the Yearly Customs, the Human Sacrifices, the Present State of the Slave Trade and the Negro's Place in Nature" by Richard F. Burton.

The correspondence can broadly be divided into several categories:

• Correspondence concerning Eckenstein's acquisition of material
• Correspondence concerning possible sale of material by Eckenstein
• Correspondence concerning acquisition of the material by the Royal Asiatic Society
• Correspondence concerning the acquisition of the hat and stick

Letter from Roger Ingpen to Oscar Eckenstein to confirm Eckenstein coming for dinner that Friday evening and expressing gratitude for allowing him to see "Kasidah". Handwritten, dated 4 April 1915.

Letter from Roger Ingpen to Oscar Eckenstein concerning selling a copy of "Kasidah". Handwritten, dated 13 April 1915.