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BURTON, RICHARD F., Sir. 1885 Autograph Letter Signed, commenting on public reaction to his edition of the Arabian Nights.
"IT WANTS 'STRONG MEAT' AND BY JOVE IT HAS GOT IT" Autograph Letter Signed "R. F. Burton" (and inscribed in Arabic beneath his signature), to "My Dear Sir" [i. e., Colonel Montgomery]. 4 pages on United Services Club embossed letterhead, 16mo; fold discreetly reinforced, first page browned along left edge; laid in custom-made 1/4 morocco folder. [London], 15 October 1885
- Notes: Written in the year of publication of Burton''s edition of The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: "Many thanks from both for your kind note . . . & invitation to Vevey. We should greatly enjoy it but I can hardly fit it into my time as I intend to pass the winter in Tangier . . . returning to Trieste in March & London in May. To my great astonishment The Nights has hit the public taste: it has of later years been so stuffed with goody, goody, namby-pamby Maria Matilda that it wants ''strong meat'' and by Jove it has got it. We had the pleasure of seeing my good friend Thayer here and I (unhappily) forgot to put his name down for the Athenaeum Club--London without a club is like a park without games. We are both living well under influence of beef and port (wine) and shudder at the lean flesh pots of Trieste (veal) . . . "
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