I have now got it home again, and I thought he smiled as I brought
him back in the cab for joy to get home. . . . There is a great waxwork
exhibition in England which is very beautifully done (Tussaud's). They
have now put Richard in the Meccan dress he wore in the desert. They
have given him a large space with sand, water, palms, and three camels,
and a domed skylight, painted yellow, throws a lurid light on the scene.
It is quite life-like. I gave them the real clothes and the real
weapons, and dressed him myself. When it was offered to him during his
life, his face beamed, and he said, 'That will bring me in contact with
the people."
The other works of Sir Richard's which Lady Burton brought out after
the Life of her husband included _Il Pentamerone_ and _Catullus_. She
also arranged for a new edition of his _Arabian Nights_, and she began
what she called the "Memorial Library," which was mainly composed of
the republication of half-forgotten books which he had written in the
days before he became famous. She also recalled, at great pecuniary
sacrifice to herself, another work which she thought was doing harm to
his memory, and destroyed the copies.
Upon the publication of the Life of her husband Lady Burton was
overwhelmed with letters from old acquaintances who had half-forgotten
her, from tried and trusted friends of her husband and herself, and from
people whom she had never known, but who were struck by the magnitude
of her self-sacrificing love.
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