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Lady Burton’s Gift to the Nation by Mary S Lovell. “To accompany the exhibition of that name at Orleans House Gallery 27 June – 9 August 1998.” Orleans House Gallery 1998. Paper bound booklet with portraits of Richard and Isabel Burton at the time of their marriage, 1861, on the front cover reproduced from gouache portraits by Louis Desanges and a photograph of Isabel and Richard Burton in their garden, Trieste c. 1890 from Isabel Burton's photograph album.

There are two handwritten documents. Both have little to identify their origin. There is a handwritten copy of Richard Burton's birth certificate and a Memorial Poem to Burton signed A.F. Ruge.

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 concerned that Eckenstein had been ill and inviting him to come round for coffee one evening. Handwritten, undated [March 1915].

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.

Advertisement for Ingpen's edition of Burton's Kasidah. Printed material taken from pamphlet/sales catalogue.