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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).

Three Months at Abbazia (Now Opatija, Croatia), 1888. Offprint signed Richard and Isabel Burton, dated London, 4 August 1888. Reprinted from the Vienna Weekly News, 30 October 1888. Typed Copy of Reprint originally in the Kensington Library (now in the Huntington Library, California).

Dr Livingstone. Letter from Richard Francis Burton at Trieste to the Athenaeum, February 14, 1874, commenting on the news of Livingstone’s death. [P. 258]. Typed copy from "The Athenaeum"

[Charles George] “Chinese” Gordon [of Khartoum]. Journals of Major-General C. G. Gordon, C.B., at Khartoum. Review by R F. Burton, The Academy, Vol. XXVIIA. July 11, 1885, pp. 19-20. [The author of the introduction and notes to the work under review is given in the typescript as A Egmont Halse. It should be Alfred Egmont Hake.]Typed copy of Review from "The Academy"

These are a mixed series of material about Richard and Isabel Burton, most of which were with the Burton Collection on acquisition. Some are associated by their use of the material for further research

Memoir of Captain Richard F. Burton (Extracts from the Press). (Unidentified reprint.) Double sheet. Despite the subtitle, the work reads as a continuous composition. On internal evidence dates from around 1862, i.e. 20 years after the beginning of his service in the Indian Army. It mentions his visit to America in 1860, but not his marriage or his diplomatic career which both began in 1861

"A Sketch of the Career of Richard F. Burton (Al-Haj Abdullah). Collected from “Men of Eminence”; from Sir Richard and Lady Burton's own works; from the press; from personal knowledge and various other reliable sources. By Alfred Bate Richards, Andrew Wilson and St Clair Baddeley. (London: Waterlow & Sons Ltd. 1886.) Black board covers with Richard F. Burton in gold handwriting diagonally across front cover.

Containing: inscription in Isabel Burton's handwriting on fly-leaf “In gratitude for kindness and courtesy in a moment of difficulty on the 20th October 1886.” and signed by both Isabel and Richard Burton.

On the next page is a copy of a letter from Robert Davis, ex-Station Master of Oxford Station 1883-1905, to Prof J. S. Margoliouth, New College, Oxford, saying that in October 1886 he found a gentleman in great pain seated on a bench near his office, and a lady anxiously attending him. He had no idea who they were until the A.B. Richards book arrived with the kind inscription. He was now asking what the Arabic inscription on the book meant. Prof. Margoliouth's reply (also attached) gives the translation (“the Pilgrim Abdullah”) and says that Mr Davis is to be congratulated on “having seen this eminent man”.

Pasted to the title page is a letter from Mr R. Davis (Clifton Villa, Ramsgate), to the Royal Asiatic Society, sending copies of the above letters and saying that as he is 82 years old he would like to leave the book and letters to the RAS for their members. “The recollection of that meeting has been a source of great pleasure to me ever since, especially during my retirement”. He also mentions an article in Pearson’s Weekly of 2 September 1916 called “The World's Greatest Love Romance” - the article is pasted on the end fly-leaf

“Mr Smalley on Captain Burton”. Extract from The Critic, 8 November 1890. The author is apparently George Washburn Smalley (1833-1916) at this date London correspondent of The New York Tribune. It is not clear whether the item was written for The Critic or reprinted from the Tribune.

Copy of The New Review, Vol. IV, No. 21, February 1891, containing "Verses on the Death of Richard Burton" by Algernon Charles Swinburne, pp. 97-99

“Burton at Damascus” by Salih, Bookman, May 1891. “Salih” was the pen-name of the Reverend William Wright, author of An Account of Palmyra and Zenobia.