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There are three letters written by Isabel Burton: two are to Mr Cotton regarding publications and the third is a printed letter to ask for a review notice of her Richard Burton biography. There is a further typed copy of a letter from Isabel to Mr Quaritch.

Letter from Isabel Burton to Mr Cotton concerning editorial notes. Handwritten, dated 18 February 1886.

Letter from Isabel Burton to Mr Cotton to send him an advance copy of Arabian Nights. Handwritten from 23 Dorset Street, Portman Square, London, dated 4 November 1886. The letter is addressed to "The Academy".

Letter from Isabel Burton to enclose a copy of "Sketch of the Career of Sir R F Burton" to ask for a review notice. Printed in a script to look handwritten. From 23 Dorset Street, Portman Square, London. Dated November 1886.

Typed copy of a letter from Isabel Burton to Mr Quaritch to ask him to advertise for [Petersilaas's] undiscovered county and an old copy of Burton's bayonet Exercise. She writes that the article in the Atheneum that had vexed Quaritch did not seem so offensive to her. She is concerned regarding the forthcoming Arabian Nights whose copyright she has sold under the strictest covenants. Letter is from The Catholic Rectory, Carlisle, dated 14 November 1894

A Complete System of Bayonet Exercise by Richard F. Burton, Lieutenant Bombay Army. (London: William Clowes & Sons, 1853.) Red cloth binding embossed decoration, gold lettering on front. Marbled endpapers. Ex libris: Cyril G R Matthey, motto Viam Prosequor. Pencilled note on verso of front free endpaper quoting N M Penzer on its extreme rarity and likely value.

The Guide-Book. A Pictorial Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. Including some of the more remarkable incidents in the life of Mohammed, the Arab Lawgiver by Richard F. Burton, Author of “A Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah”. (London, William Clowes & Sons, 1865.) Appears to have been written to accompany a magic lantern show prepared by the Royal Polytechnic Institution, Regent Street, London (1837-1881). The illustrations do not appear in the book. The frontispiece is a portrait of Burton signed ‘W J Allen del. J Cooper St’ The artist is presumably Walter James Allen (fl. 1859-1891). Green card cover with black lettering.

"Lord Beaconsfield. A Sketch. By Captain Richard F. Burton". [1882] On the fly-leaf “Given to me by Mr Francis Hitchman; the biographer of Lord Beaconsfield. Only 25 copies printed. R. Garnett.” Green quarter and corners leather, green and black marbled boards. Ex libris: Archibald Philip, Earl of Rosebery.

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana. First edition. (London: printed for the Hindoo Kama Shastra Society, 1883.) Parts I, III, V, VI and VIA. Grey and beige paper covers. Accompanying label concerning parts that are present

"Terminal Essay to the Thousand and One Nights by Sir Richard F. Burton." Privately printed 1890. “Puris omnia pura”. London: for private circulation only. Violet card cover with black lettering. No. 10 of 50 copies.