The Burtoniana is spread out over several archives and in private collections. If you are a private collector and are prepared to make images of your holdings available, please contact the editor. They will be made available here for scholarly purposes and digital preservation.
An important source of information for Burton MSS in private hands, and for rare variant editions of his works, are auction catalogues.
Naturally, most collections of Burton material are in the UK, though Zanzibar apparently has some surviving archival material, and some resources are in the US. Burton's personal collection of books, once housed at the Royal Anthropological Institute, are now at Huntington Library in California. The Metcalfe Collection is also housed at the Huntington. Syracuse has a lesser known collection.
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Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office
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2667
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| NRA 42033 Arundell of Wardour | |
| annotated books, literary MSS, corresp and papers | |
See also the microfilm collection The papers of Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890) from the Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office by Richard Francis Burton, Sir; Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office. Marlborough : Adam Matthew, 2001. |
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Huntington Library
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| formerly at Royal Anthropological Institute | |
| see HMC Private papers of British diplomats 1782-1900, 1985 | |
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| MSS, books and pamphlets from his library | |
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British Library, Manuscript Collections
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| RP 3236 | |
| see Annual return 1993 | |
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| 1885-90: letters (85) and MSS of lectures (4) | |
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Huntington Library
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| see Guide to literary MSS 1979 | |
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| 1858-72: travel notebooks (2 vols) | |
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Royal Geographical Society
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| see HMC Private papers of British diplomats 1782-1900, 1985 | |
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| 1865-90: corresp and literary MSS (62 items) | |
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Syracuse University Libraries
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| see NUC MS 66-1956 | |
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| notes for his translation of Camoens, etc (1 vol) | |
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Harvard University: Houghton Library
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| MS Eng 37 | |
| NRA 20129 Harvard Univ MSS | |
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| corresp, papers and annotated books | |
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Orleans House Gallery
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| see ASLIB Directory of Literary and Historical Collections 1993 | |
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| 1860-91: papers of and rel to Burton | |
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British Library, Manuscript Collections
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| Add.MS.49380 ff.54-72 | |
| see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995 | |
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| 1851-1910: corresp | |
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Richmond Local Studies Library
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| see Matthews & Wainwright, MSS rel to Middle East, p73 | |
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| 1874-89: letters to HS Ashbee | |
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British Library, Manuscript Collections
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| Add MS 38808C | |
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| c1884-90: letters to JJ Fahie | |
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Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western
Manuscripts
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| MS Eng misc d 187 | |
| see Annual report 1979-80 p18 | |
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| 1864-81: letters to Sir Francis Galton | |
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London University: University College London (UCL) Special Collections
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| 1855-6: letters to Lord Houghton | |
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Cambridge University: Trinity College Library
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| Houghton 228:11-50 | |
| see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995 | |
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| 1852-80: letters (61) to Royal Geographical Society and other papers intended for publication by the RGS | |
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Royal Geographical Society
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| RGS/CB
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| see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995; RGS Archives | |
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| 1864-76: letters (13) to Sir William Stirling-Maxwell | |
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Glasgow City Archives
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| T-SK 29.14-26 | |
| NRA 24669 Stirling | |
| see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995 | |
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There is also a sizeable collection of Burton material held at the
Royal Asiatic Society
in London. The society awards a Burton medal.
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Author: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890.
Title: Appendix No. 9. Visit to Hauran [i.e., Syria] :
autograph manuscript of the beginning of an account of a
visit to Syria undertaken on 24 May 1871, paper watermarked
1868.
Description: 1 item (5 p.) ; (8vo)
Local Call No: Misc English
Notes: Probably intended for an appendix to Unexplored
Syria (1871) by Burton and C.F. Tyrwhitt Drake, but not so
used.
Mostly concerning Rashed Pasha's attack on the
Druses in 1870-71.
Purchase; Mrs. Rena Bransten and Mr. Henry S.
Glazier; 1980.
Subjects: Syria -- History.
Other authors: Bransten, Rena, donor.
Glazier, Henry S., donor.
Location: Pierpont Morgan Library Dept. of Literary and
Historical Manuscripts
LHMS Misc English
Control No.: NYPR80166-A
Author: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890.
Title: Autograph letter signed : Trieste, to an
unidentified correspondent, 1874 Apr. 2.
Description: 1 item (4 p.) ; (32mo)
Local Call No: Misc English
Notes: Removed from his Kasîdah, 1894.
Concerning the availability and value of works on
Middle Eastern linguistics.
English explorer and author.
Subjects: 1874 04 02.
Location: Pierpont Morgan Library Dept. of Literary and
Historical Manuscripts
LHMS Misc English
Control No.: NYPR80519-A
Author: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890
Title: Papers, 1855-1890.
Description: 15 folders (1 linear inch).
Notes: English explorer, author, and linguist.
Correspondence, a portrait of Burton, and an
autograph book. The items are both to and from Richard
Burton and his wife, Isabel Arundel Burton. The materials
deal largely with personal matters including Richard Burton's
visit of the Mormons in Utah.
Subjects: Mormons -- Utah -- History -- Sources.
Explorers -- Great Britain -- Correspondence.
Correspondence. ftamc
Other authors: Burton, Isabel Arundel, Lady, 1831-1896.
Location: UPB Vault MSS 48
Control No.: UTBV96-A51
Author: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890.
Title: Greek inscriptions from Syria, 1869-1871.
Description: 1 item (8 p.)
Notes: 170 Greek inscriptions copied from various ruins
in the Hauran Mountains and the 'Alah region to the east of
Hama, Syria in 1869-1871 by Charles F. Tyrwhitt Drake and
Burton.
Eighty-one inscriptions: Burton, Richard F. and
Charles F.T. Drake. Unexplored Syria, (London: Tinsley
Bros., 1872), II: Appendix II.
All other inscriptions: Waddington, William
Henry. Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie
recueillies et expliquees (Paris: Didot, 1870).
A five page list with the inscriptions shows the
Burton-Drake inscription numbers.
Purchased from William P. Wreden, 1971.
Subjects: Inscriptions, Greek -- Syria.
Drake, Charles F. Tyrwhitt, 1846-1874.
Waddington, William Henry, 1826-1894.
Location: UPB MSS SC 206
Control No.: UTBV85-A732
Author: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890.
Title: Letter: to Brigham Young /by Sir Richard Francis
Burton, 1866 Sep 10.
Description: 3 p.; 13 cm.
Notes: A letter of introduction for Hepworth Dixon.
Subjects: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890.
Dixon, William Hepworth, 1821-1879.
Young, Brigham, 1801-1877.
Mormons -- Utah.
Location: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Box
1603A Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520.
CtY WA MSS\S-379\B953
Control No.: CTYAFGC6846-A
Author: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890.
Title: Postcard, 1888, July 23, London, to J. C. Cotton,
London.
Description: 1 item.
Found In: Harry Lyman Koopman Collection. Ms.52. Ms.55.
Ms.56.
Notes: ACS.
Lunch invitation.
Subjects: Postcards -- England -- 19th century. ftamc.
Other authors: Cotton, J. C., recipient.
Location: RPB-JH Ms.52.48
Control No.: RIBV85-A2680
Author: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890.
Title: Letter to [?] Tinsley. [s.l.]. [18--]
Description: 1 item (1 p.)
Notes: ALS
Concerning Swinburne.
Subjects: Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Location: Special Collections Department, University of
Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, IA 52242.
IaU \MsL\B974\ti
Control No.: IAUG92-A2593