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[Footnote 628: Unpublished.]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 xxxix., 177. Letters to Mrs. E. J. Burton.]
[Footnote 636: See Chapter xxxi.]
[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[Footnote 638: Unpublished letter to Miss Stisted.]
[Footnote 639: Unpublished letter.]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[Footnote 641: Unpublished.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[Footnote 642: Unpublished.]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
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 Rom
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