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[Footnote 638: Unpublished letter to Miss Stisted]

[Footnote 639: Unpublished letter]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[Footnote 641: Unpublished Lent me by Mr Mostyn Pryce]

[Footnote 642: Unpublished]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 one”

[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 documents]

[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, quiteverse 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 ment 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 xxxiv]

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

[Footnote 655: Mr T Douglas Murray, the biographer of Jeanne d'Arc and Sir Saypt, where he met Burton He was on intimate terms of friendshi+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 i some verses]