The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, volume 2 (of 2) / By His Wife, Isabel Burton

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The author recounts her husband's later career and their life together, combining personal memoir, travel narrative, and administrative episodes. The volumes describe their residence and social life in Trieste, diplomatic duties, European travels, repeated journeys to India and the Deccan with vivid sketches of local customs and sites, and incidents such as illnesses, bereavements, and honours. Interspersed are reflections on spiritualism, slavery and public affairs, encounters with notable contemporaries, and anecdotal episodes from London and continental society. The narrative blends practical consular detail with intimate domestic recollection and descriptive travel writing.

"Your 'Nights' are admirable, fascinating—the true thing at last! I delight in my volume.

"I can hardly express to you how highly I appreciate the 'Nights,' the first two volumes of which are at hand. The work is interesting, too, and permits another edition."

"September 26th.

"I have been devouring your first volume of the 'Nights,' and cannot tell you how much I enjoyed the book, and how anxiously I am looking for the next volume."

Edward Peacock, Bottesford Manor, Brigg, October 3rd, 1885.

"I have read every word of the first volume of Captain Burton's 'Arabian Nights,' and, as I am not an Arabic scholar, am very grateful to him for having given us an English version."

[1] This was written some weeks before the author was made a K.C.M.G.