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.

The Partition of Turkey; reprinted from the Manchester Examiner and Times, January 3 and 4, 1881 [Trieste 1881]. Typed Copy of Pamphlet originally in the Kensington Library (now in the Huntington Library, California).