The Life of Sir Richard Burton Part 59

[Footnote 612: Letter to Mr. Payne, 28th January 1890.]

[Footnote 613: As ingrained clingers to red tape and immobility.]

[Footnote 614: I give the anecdote as told to me by Dr. Baker.]

[Footnote 615: Letter of Mr. T. D. Murray to me 24th September 1904. But see Chapter x.x.xi. This paper must have been signed within three months of Sir Richard's death.]

[Footnote 616: On 28th June 1905, I saw it in the priest's house at Mortlake.

There is an inscription at the back.]

[Footnote 617: Alaeddin was prefaced by a poetical dedication to Payne's Alaeddin, "Twelve years this day,--a day of winter dreary," etc.]

[Footnote 618: See Chapter x.x.xiii., 156. Payne had declared that Cazotte's tales "are for the most part rubbish."

[Footnote 619: Mr. Payne's translation of The Novels of Matteo Bandello, six vols. Published in 1890.]

[Footnote 620: Now Professor of Sanskrit at Cambridge.]

[Footnote 621: 6th November 1889.]

[Footnote 622: Lib. Ed., vol. xii., p. 226.]

[Footnote 623: See Introduction by Mr. Smithers.]

[Footnote 624: 11th July 1905.]

[Footnote 625: We quote Lady Burton. Mr. Smithers, however, seems to have doubted whether Burton really did write this sentence. See his Preface to the Catullus.]

[Footnote 626: A Translation by Francis D. Bryne appeared in 1905.]

[Footnote 627: I am indebted to M. Carrington for these notes.]

[Footnote 628: Unpublished.]

[Footnote 629: Dr. Schliemann died 27th December, 1890.]

[Footnote 630: Not the last page of the Scented Garden, as she supposed (see Life, vol. ii., p. 410), for she tells us in the Life (vol. ii., p. 444) that the MS. consisted of only 20 chapters.]

[Footnote 631: Told me by Dr. Baker.]

[Footnote 632: Life, ii., 409.]

[Footnote 633: Communicated by Mr. P. P. Cautley, the Vice-Consul of Trieste.]

[Footnote 634: Asher's Collection of English Authors. It is now in the Public Library at Camberwell.]

[Footnote 635: She herself says almost as much in the letters written during this period. See Chapter x.x.xix., 177. Letters to Mrs. E. J. Burton.]

[Footnote 636: See Chapter x.x.xi.]

[Footnote 637: Letters of Major St. George Burton to me, March 1905.]

[Footnote 638: Unpublished letter to Miss Stisted.]

[Footnote 639: Unpublished letter.]

[Footnote 640: Verses on the Death of Richard Burton. The New Review, Feb.

1891.]

[Footnote 641: Unpublished. Lent me by Mr. Mostyn Pryce.]

[Footnote 642: Unpublished.]

[Footnote 643: See Chapter xiv, 63.]

[Footnote 644: See The Land of Midian Revisited, ii., 223, footnote.]

[Footnote 645: The Lusiads, Canto ii., Stanza 113.]

[Footnote 646: She impressed them on several of her friends. In each case she said, "I particularly wish you to make these facts as public as possible when I am gone."

[Footnote 647: We mean illiterate for a person who takes upon herself to write, of this even a cursory glance through her books will convince anybody.]

[Footnote 648: For example, she destroyed Sir Richard's Diaries. Portions of these should certainly have been published.]

[Footnote 649: Some of them she incorporated in her "Life" of her husband, which contains at least 60 pages of quotations from utterly worthless doc.u.ments.]

[Footnote 650: I am told that it is very doubtful whether this was a bona fide offer; but Lady Burton believed it to be so.]

[Footnote 651: Romance of Isabel Lady Burton, vol. ii., p. 725.]

[Footnote 652: The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton.]

[Footnote 653: Lady Burton, owing to a faulty translation, quite mistook Nafzawi's meaning. She was thinking of the concluding verse as rendered in the 1886 edition, which runs as follows:--

"I certainly did wrong to put this book together, But you will pardon me, nor let me pray in vain; O G.o.d! award no punishment for this on judgment day!

And thou, O reader, hear me conjure thee to say, So be it!"

But the 1904 and, more faithful edition puts it very differently. See Chapter x.x.xiv.]

[Footnote 654: An error, as we have shown.]

[Footnote 655: Mr. T. Douglas Murray, the biographer of Jeanne d'Arc and Sir Samuel Baker, spent many years in Egypt, where he met Burton. He was on intimate terms of friends.h.i.+p with Gordon, Grant, Baker and De Lesseps.]

[Footnote 656: Written in June 1891.]

[Footnote 657: Life, ii., p. 450.]

[Footnote 658: It would have been impossible to turn over half-a-dozen without noticing some verses.]