Richard Francis Burton
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Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was a British consul, explorer and Orientalist best known as the translator of The Thousand Nights and a Night, the famous Arabian Nights.
Boris de Zirkoff wrote of him: "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."[1]
Notes
- ↑ Boris de Zirkoff, "Bibliography: Burton, Sir Richard Francis," H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings 1881-1882 Volume III (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1968), 399.