File RAS COLL4/3/5 - Letters of Sir Richard and Lady Isabel Burton

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Reference code

GB 891 RAS COLL4-RAS COLL4/3-RAS COLL4/3/5

Title

Letters of Sir Richard and Lady Isabel Burton

Date(s)

  • 12th Dec 1978 - 21st May 2003 (Creation)

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File

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Name of creator

(1823 - present)

Administrative history

The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland was founded by the eminent Sanskrit scholar Sir Henry Thomas Colebrooke on the 15th March 1823. It received its Royal Charter from King George IV on the 11th August 1824 'for the investigation ofread more

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Scope and content

Correspondence between H.G. Quaritch Wales and Professor C.F. Beckingham concerning the rescinding of Quaritch Wales' gift of two volumes of letters between his grandfather, Bernard Quaritch, and Sir Richard and Lady Isabel Burton. Two letters, dated 12read more

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Language of material

  • English

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