Quotes:Burton, Richard Francis

Zirkoff, Boris

Burton, Sir Richard Francis (1821-1890). British consul, explorer and Orientalist, prolific writer, celebrated translator of the so- called “Arabian Nights” (The Thousand Nights and a Night, 16 vols. privately printed, 1885-88). Married to Isabel Arundell who wrote a Life of her husband (1893). It would appear from H. P. B.’s Diaries (entry of Oct. 12, 1878) that Capt. Burton became a Fellow of the T. S. in Great Britain.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 3, p. 499