The material within this collection comprises of correspondence and publications by and about Richard Francis Burton and his wife Isabel Burton (nee Arundell). There are also two photographs of Burton and artefacts.

Also included within this Collection are correspondence concerning the acquisition of the material by the RAS and some supplementary material regarding Oscar Eckenstein, its original collector.

These are pamphlets and offprints covering many different areas of his interest. Some are rare editions whilst others are typed reprints of material held elsewhere.

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).