Henry Salt (1853-1939) was the author of the Life of Henry David Thoreau, Animals Rights and A Plea for Vegetarianism which inspired Gandhi for follow a vegetarian diet.

Archive

This section is intended to help researchers and acedmics to quickly and easily determine whether we've a particular Salt book, essay,  or review in our archive.

We are currently working towards making our entire archive available online, with the  exception of his books. If a non-book item is listed on our Collection page, researchers and students may request a copy is an online version isn't available.

We will not be making Salt's books available online even though they are now out of copyright. We feel that the best format to read any book is not on a computer screen or even a print-out. Many of the books in our archive are in poor condition which prohibits them from being photocopied. However, we are more than happy to help anyone.

The second purpose of the archive is to list any work of Salt that we currently do not, these are listed on the Wanted page. Salt wrote for several journals, especially during the 1880's, and as yet few appear in our collection. There may also be essays, poems and letters that we are not aware that even exist.

If you have access to the following essays or journals please contact us: Humanity, The Humanitarian, The Humane Review, Justice, Progress, To-day, The Nineteenth Century, Temple Bar, Seed-time (The Fellowship of the New Life), Hygienic Review, Social Democrat, The Gentleman's Magazine, Time, Vegetarian Reveiw and Vegetarian Messenger.

Also wanted are reviews of Salt's books or essays, some of which will have appeared in The Socialist Review, Times Literary Supplement, etc.

Please note that whilst ever effort has been made to avoid typographical errors when transcibing the essays we cannot guarantee that they are 100% accurate. If you are engaged in academic research, you should compare a published text to any which you see here.