Research Resources

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Salt's Letter can be found

Henry Salt Papers, Hitotsubashi University Library
The Fabrian Archive, Nuffield College, Oxford
Edward Carpenter Collection, Sheffield City Library
G. B. Shaw Papers, British Library
George Bernard Shaw, Papers, 1879-1937 at Kent State University Libraries
John Galsworthy Letters, Syracuse University Library - Seven letters written between 1909 and 1910 to Salt
C. F. Sixsmith Collection - The John Rylands Library
George Meredith Letters, University of London - Letters to Salt
Alfred Russel Wallace Collection - Two letters to Salt
George Bernard Shaw Harry Ransom Center - Salt and S. Winsten
Alfred Winslow Hosmer Collection - Salt Letters

Collections of Salt Material

Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods Library (website)
Working Class Movement Library (website)
Northwestern University (website)
University of Oxford, Bodleian Library (website)

Journal Lists

Voices of Social Democracy in Britain - near bottom of the page (website)

Sources of Information

Some of the missing essays from our archive were found mentioned here:

1. Henry Salt and His Life of Thoreau by John T. Flanagan, The New England Quarterly 28, June 1955, pages 237-246
2. Salt, Henry Shakespear Stephens (1851-1939) by David E. Martin, Biographical Dictionary of Modern British Radicals Volume 3, 1870-1914, L-Z
3. Henry Salt, Humanitarian Reformer and Man of Letters, by George Hendrick
4. Walter Harding Collection: A Finding Aid
5. Brigid Brophy's review of Salt's Animals' Rights, TLS, 16 January 1981, page 48

Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters, edited by Dan H. Laurence (London, 1965-72), 2 volumes (Source 2)
(Vol.1: 1874-97, Vol. 2: 1898-1910, Vol. 3: 1911-1925, Vol. 4: 1926-1950)
The First Fabians by Norman & Jeanne MacKenzie (New York, 1977) ISBN 0-297-77090-X. (Source 2)
The Genuis of Shaw by Michael Holroyd, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1979. 238pp (Source 5) - (Incudes a photograph of Salt)
Life and Letters of John Galsworthy by H.V. Marrot. (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1936, 819 pages)

Articles or other sources of information on Salt

The Labour Annual for 1897 (Source 2)
Edward Carpenter 1844-1929: Prophet of Human Fellowship by Chushichi Tsuzuki (Cambridge, 1980) 0-52123-371-2 (Source 2)