My first impression of the man as of steel was consolidated and enhanced. He told us, amongst other things, of the work he had in hand. Three great books were partially done. The translation of the Arabian Nights, the metrical translation of Camoens, and the Book of the Sword. These were all works of vast magnitude and requiring endless research. But he lived to complete them all.
On a later meeting of Richard Francis Burton
On 8 February 1879, in, Vol. 1, p. 225 - Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1907)
