Research Resources
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Henry Salt Collections
British Library, G. B. Shaw Papers
Contains Henry Salt's letters to George Bernard Shaw
Visit: The British Library
Hitotsubashi University Library, Henry S. Salt Collecton
Letters, 1920-1938 : written by Henry S. Salt
604 Items
Mss. signed
Almost all written at Brighton
Year 1920: 5 letters (12 leaves) and 1 postcard -- Year 1921: 15 letters (21 leaves, one folded) and 2 postcards -- Year 1922: 18 letters (18 leaves, some folded) -- Year 1923: 12 letters (16 leaves, some folded) and 2 postcards -- Year 1924: 18 letters (18 leaves, some folded) and 1 postcard -- Year 1925: 28 letters (29 leaves, some folded) and 4 postcards -- Year 1926: 34 letters (35 leaves, some folded) and 4 postcards -- Year 1927: 38 letters (43 leaves, some folded), 3 postcards and 1 card -- Year 1928: 26 letters (37 leaves, some imperfect) and 3 postcards -- Year 1929: 33 letters (40 leaves, one imperfect)
Year 1930: 28 letters (41 leaves) -- Year 1931: 33 letters (38 leaves) -- Year 1932: 53 letters (61 leaves) and 3 postcards -- Year 1933: 64 letters (76 leaves) and 1 postcard -- Year 1934: 38 letters (43 leaves) and 9 postcards -- Year 1935: 43 letters (44 leaves) and 4 postcards -- Year 1936: 47 letters (52 leaves) and 3 postcards -- Year 1937: 23 letters (23 leaves) and 3 postcards -- Year 1938: 3 letters (3 leaves) and 1 postcard
Part of the Henry S. Salt Collection
Papers, ca. 1922-1936 / by Catherine Salt and Henry S. Salt
28 Items
Chiefly mischellaneous letters and manuscript drafts. Papers include letters from Catherine Salt to Bertram Lloyd, undated, and a holograph of Henry S. Salt entitled The Great creator : a problem that we evade
Part of the Henry S. Salt Collection
Jon Wynne-Tyson Collection, Books, articles and original photographs
Jon Wynne-Tyson has the largest private collection of Salt material including original photographs and books from Salt's own library.
Tamiment Library, New York University, Mostly letters relating to Stephen Winsten's Salt biography
In their collection Box 6 Folder 41:
Salt, Henry: Clippings, Correspondence (Catherine L. Salt, Samuel J. Looker, Laurence Housman, Sylvia Lloyd, Bertram Lloyd), Manuscripts.
Consists of some 30 pages — mostly correspondence, and a few clippings. A large part of it consists of correspondence relating to Stephen Winsten's 'Salt and his Circle.'
Visit: Tamiment Library
The John Rylands University Library, Material relating to Henry Salt
C.F. Sixsmith Collection of Printed and Photographic Material
Reference Number(s) Eng 1331/3/6
Dates of Creation 1897-1939
Physical Description 7 items
This class contains material relating to Henry Shakespear Stephens Salt (1851-1939), scholar, author, naturalist, socialist and founder of the Humanitarian League which existed from 1891 to 1919. Salt was a friend of Edward Carpenter, and Sixsmith may have become acquainted with him through Carpenter.
Material includes: cuttings relating to Salt, principally a bundle of 5 obituaries, originally stored together in an envelope; a publisher's advertisement; and 4 periodicals containing a letter and 3 articles by Salt: 'Thoreau in Twenty Volumes' (3/6/3); 'Reminiscences of Ernest Bell' (3/6/4); and 'The Memorial Window to Lord Fortescue' (3/6/5).
Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods Library, Many Henry Salt related articles
The Walter Harding Collection
Series II. Henry D. Thoreau: Writings and Correspondence
Salt, Henry S. “Thoreau’s ‘Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers’” Lippincott’s Magazine, August 1890
Salt, Henry S. “Thoreau’s Poetry” The Art Review I (May 1890), pp. 153-155
The Walter Harding Collection
Series III. Research Collections
Series III.J.8. JEFFERIES, R.
b. Salt, Henry S. “Thoreau and Jefferies” Nature Notes, 1900
Series III.J.20.
b. vii. Salt, Henry S. “Froude to Thoreau” The Academy, 11 March 1899, pp. 305-306
Series III.S.3. SALT, HENRY S.
a. By Henry S. Salt
i. “A Botanophilist’s Journal” The Call of the Wildflower, 1922, pp. 133-138 (Copy)
ii. “Gandhi and Thoreau” The Nation, 1 March 1930 (Transcription - Letter)
iii. “Henry D. Thoreau” Eclectic Magazine, January 1887, pp. 89-98
iv. Henry David Thoreau
1. Book Reviews: October 1890- Spring 1995, 8 items
2. Henry David Thoreau: A Century Essay 1917, pp. 3-30 (Copy)
v. “A Statement Written by Henry Stephens Salt and Read at His Funeral by Bertram Lloyd” 22 April 1939 (Typescript copy)
vi. “Thoreau Illustrated” The Saturday Review, 5 November 1898, pp. 600-601 (Copy)
ix. Correspondence
Salt, Henry S. to Agnes, 13 April 1936, 1 item (ALS)
2. Salt, Henry S. to Fred S. Piper, March 1932-January 1936, 3 items (ALS Copy, original, typescript copy
b. About Henry S. Salt
ii. Davies, John. “Henry S. Salt” Centi, June 1962, pp. 3725-3726 and transcription, 2 items
2. “Literary Comments in the Letters of Henry S. Salt to W. S. Kennedy” Emerson Society Quarterly, pp. 25-29
3. Reviews of Henry Salt: Humanitarian Reformer and Man of Letters
a. Harding, Walter. Journal of English and Germanic Philosophy, January 1978, pp. 152-153, 2 items (Journal and typescript)
v. Oehlschlaeger, Fritz. “Henry Salt’s Third Biography of Thoreau” (Typescript)
vi. Russell, George K. Orion, Winter 1983, pp. 36-37 — review of Animals' Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress, by Henry S. Salt
vii. “The Widening Influence of Thoreau” Current Literature, August 1908, pp. 170-171
Series III.V.6. VEGETARIANISM
k. Salt, Henry S. “Henry David Thoreau” Vegetarian Review, May 1896, pp. 225-228 (Copy)
Series III.W.45. WHITE, GILBERT
d. Salt, Henry S. “Thoreau and Gilbert White” New Age, 15 421, November 1900 (Copy)
The Raymond Adams Collection
www. Salt, Henry S “Thoreau” [The Times, 1904]
xvii. Salt, Henry H. [to Raymond Adams]
xviii. Salt, Henry H. [to Daniel G. Mason]
The Lewis C. Dawes Collection
11. Salt, Henry. “Henry D. Thoreau” from Temple Bar, November 1886.
Visit: Walden Woods Library
University of Virginia Library, 12 Henry Salt letters regarding Shelley portrait
Nellie Porterfield Dunn 1897-1938 Letters to and from Nellie Porterfield (Mrs. John H.) Dunn regarding her sketch and portrait of Percy B. Shelley by the American artist, William E. West. The main body of correspondence is with Mrs. A. P. Bryant, niece of the artist West, R. U. Johnson, associate editor of Century Magazine; r. W. Gilder, editor of Century Magazine, Henry S. Salt, and Richard Garnett. #38-177.
There are ca.12 Henry Salt letters in MSS 38-177, which translates to be ca. 23 pages.
Vegetarian Society, Some Salt books and vegetarian journals featuring Salt essays
In addition to several books by Henry Salt, the Vegetarian Society archive has a large collection of Vegetarian journals which feature Salt essays and letters. These include the Vegetarian Messenger, Vegetarian Review (1894 and 1897 only), Vegetarian News, The Food Reform Magazine, The Vegetarian, The Humane Review and a few editions of the Humanitarian.
Visit: The Vegetarian Society
Working Class Movement Library, Books and essays by Salt
The library has several Henry Salt books and several early Socialist journals (e.g. Justice) that feature essays by Salt.
Salt's Letters
The Fabrian Archive, Nuffield College, Oxford
Edward Carpenter Collection, Sheffield City 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
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
Northwestern University - Garnett Collection (website)
University of Oxford, Bodleian Library (website)
Socialist Journal Lists
English Socialist Periodicals, 1880-1900: A Reference Source by Deborah Mutch (Amazon)
Marxists Internet Archive: Voices of Social Democracy in Britain (website)
Archive Aids
Location Register (University of Reading)
Archives Hub
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)
