The Henry S. Salt Collection

Much of Henry Salt's writing is now in institutions or private collections inaccessible to the general public. The aim of the Henry S. Salt site is to collect all the works and material relating to Henry Salt, the Humanitarian League, his influence on animal rights, vegetarianism, environmentalism, and his literary studies of Henry David Thoreau, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Richard Jefferies, to name but a few. The collection, when complete, will be made available to the general public in order that his contribution to social reform can be fully appreciated.

We welcome suggestions of titles or donations of material (books, essays, correspondence, reviews, etc) in any format to be added to the site’s collection.

Wanted see the list

Salt wrote for several journals, especially during the 1880's, and as yet few appear in our collection. 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.

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

Donated Items

CHIEN-HUI LI

  • A Sage at Close Quarters [Edward Carpenter: In Appreciation edited by G. Beith, London, 1931] (photocopy)
  • Have Animals Rights? [Humane Review, 1908] (photocopy)
  • Humanitarianism: Its General Principles and Progress [William Reeves, 1893] (photocopy)
  • Shelley as a Pioneer [Humane Review, 1901-2] (photocopy)
  • Socialism and Literature [Forecasts of the Coming Century, 1897] (photocopy)
  • The Brutalitarian 'A Journal for the Sane and Strong' [1904] (photocopy)
  • The Ethics of Corporal Punishment [International Journal of Ethics, 1905] (photocopy)
  • The Faith of Richard Jefferies [Westminister Review, 1905] (photocopy)
  • The Rights of Animals [International Journal of Ethics, 1900] (photocopy)
  • The Sportsmen at Bay [International Journal of Ethics, 1906] (photocopy)
  • Thoreau and the Simple Life [Humane Review, 1906] (photocopy)
  • Thoreau as Pioneer [The Humanitarian, 1917] (photocopy)
  • What is Humanitarianism? [Humane Review, 1907] (photocopy)
  • Obituary: Mr. Henry S. Salt - Scholar, Poet, Wit and Self-Styled Faddist [The Daily Telegraph, April 20, 1939] (photocopy)

ETON COLLEGE

  • The Beagler Boy Vol. 1 No. 1 [A. C. Fifield, 1907] (photocopy)
  • The Beagler Boy Vol. 1 No. 2 [A. C. Fifield, 1907] (photocopy)
  • The Eton College Hare-Hunt [Humanitarian League, 1906] (photocopy)
  • The Eton Hare-Hunt [The Humanitarian, 1909] (photocopy)
  • Letter from Henry Salt to Lord Harcourt acknowledging joint-authorship of The Beagler Boy [July 21, 1914] (photocopy)

GEORGE AND WILLENE HENDRICK

  • Henry Salt, Humanitarian Reformer and Man of Letters by George Hendrick [University of Illinois Press, 1977]
  • Salt and His Circle by Stephen Winsten [Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., 1951] 

THE THOREAU INSTITUTE www.walden.org

  • John Davies: In Memorium by John Pontin [The Thoreau Society Bulletin, No. 119 - Spring 1972]

The Thoreau Institute has an impressive collection of Henry S. Salt related material and this is being added to their site all the time, see Salt at the Thoreau Institute

NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY

  • Henry Salt and His Life of Thoreau by John Flanigan [The New England Quarterly, No. 28, June 1955, pages 237-246] (photocopy)

JOHN F. C. PONTIN

Essays:

  • A Nursey of Millionaires [To-day, 1887] (photocopy)
  • James Leigh Joynes: Some Reminiscences [Social Democrat No. 8, 1897] (photocopy)
  • Shelley and the Quarterly Review [To-day, 1885] (photocopy)
  • The Story of a Heart [To-day, 1885] (photocopy)
  • Restrictionists and Abolitionists [Animals' Agenda, 1987] (photocopy)
  • David Henry Thoreau: A Centenary Essay [Thoreau Journal Quarterly, 1975]

Reviews:

  • Salt's Homo Rapiens, and Other Verses [The Socialist Review, February 1927] (photocopy)
  • Salt's The Flogging Craze [The Socialist Review, January/March 1917] (photocopy)
  • Flogging!: The Flogging Craze Review [The Labour Leader, 1916] (photocopy)
  • Salt's Killing for Sport [The Socialist Review, May 1915] (photocopy)
  • A Socialist on Shelley: Review of Henry Salt's Percy Bysshe Shelley - A Monograph [Justice, February 1888] (photocopy)
  • Salt's Henry David Thoreau [The Socialist Review, January/March 1918] (photocopy)
  • The Fraternity to Come: Henry Salt Humanitarian Reformer and Man of Letters Review by Michael Holroyd [Times Literary Supplement, 24 February 1978] (photocopy)
  • Henry Salt and animal rights: Animals' Rights Review by MaryAnn Violin [PAWS Animal Welfare News, Summer 1981] (photocopy)
  • The Savour of Salt Review by Cyril Wright [Pacifist, July 1989] (photocopy)
  • A Tasty Morsel: The Savour of Salt Review by John F.C. Pontin [New Ground, Summer 1990] (photocopy)
  • Among the Cannibals: The Savour of Salt Review by Rodney Aitchtey [The Independent, 21 December 1989] (photocopy)
  • Salt of the Earth: The Savour of Salt Review by Peter Singer [New York Review of Books, February 15, 1990] (photocopy)
  • Life of Henry David Thoreau Review by John Pontin [Richard Jefferies Society, 1994] (photocopy)

Audio:

  • BBC Radio Programme: with Mrs Salt and J. F. Pontin [1977]

Miscellaneous:

  • Humanitarian League Slaughter-House Success Newspaper clipping [The Clarion, February 11, 1899] (photocopy)
  • Thoreau: Short Outtake from Salt's Book [The Social Democrat, Vol 12, 1908] (photocopy)
  • SALT, Henry Stephens [Who Was Who 1929-1940, published by Adam & Charles Black, 1941, page 1190] (photocopy)
  • Henry Salt: Chronology by John F. C. Pontin [notes for speach given to The Richard Jefferies Society, 1991]
  • Henry S. Salt: The Ascent of Man by Donald Worster [Nature's Economy, published by Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, 1977, ISBN 0-87156-197-2, pp. 185-187]

SIMON WILD

Books:

  • Our Vanishing Wildflowers and Other Essays [Watts & Co., 1928] (photocopy)

Miscellaneous:

  • The Eton Hare Hunt [Humanitarian Essays, New Series No. 11, 1910] (photocopy)
  • The Secret of the Reptile House, Snake Feeding at the Zoological Garden [Humanitarian Essays, New Series No. 11, 1910] (photocopy)
  • Letters by Henry Salt and articles relating to the Humanitarian League published in the The Times (photocopies) - full details soon
  • George Bernard Shaw's 'A Sunday on the Surrey Hills' [Reprint of the Pall Mall Gazette in 1888] (photocopy)

This is just a small selection of the material Simon has very kindly contributed to this site!

ANONYMOUS

Books:

  • A Study of Shelley's "Julian and Maddale" [Richard Clay & Sons, London, 1888]
  • Animals' Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress [Centaur Press, 1980]
  • Company I Have Kept [George Allen & Unwin, 1930]
  • Life of Henry David Thoreau [Centaur Press, 1993]
  • Literary Sketches [Swan, Sonnenscheim, Lowrey & Co., 1886]
  • Memories of Bygone Eton [Hutchinson & Co., 1928]
  • On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills: Pilgrimages to Snowdon and Scawfell [C. W. Daniel, London, 1922]
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet and Pioneer: A Biographical Study [George Allen & Unwin, London, 1924]
  • Richard Jefferies: His Life and His Ideas [Swan Sonnenschein; Macmillan, 1894]
  • Seventy Years Among Savages [George Allen & Unwin, 1921]
  • The Creed of Kinship [Constable & Co., 1935]
  • The Flogging Craze: A Statement of the Case Against Corporal Punishment George Allen & Unwin, 1916
  • The Savour of Salt: A Henry Salt Anthology Edited by George and Willene Hendrick [Centaur Press, 1989]
  • Songs of Freedom [W. Scott Ltd., 1893]
  • The Story of Dido and Aeneas: The Fourth Book of Virgil's 'Aeneid' [The University Press, 1928]
  • Treasures Of Lucretius [Watts and Co., 1912]

The Times Literary Supplement:

  • Thoreau (Letter) [September 2, 1904, page 269]
  • Swinburne at Eton (Letter) [December 25, 1919, page 781]
  • Seventy Years Among Savages (Book Review) [January 20, 1921, page 37]
  • The Call of the Wildflower (Book Review) [July 6, 1922, page 439]
  • The Call of the Wildflower (Letter) [July 20, 1922, page 476]
  • The Story of My Cousins: Brief Animal Biographies (Short Book Review) [June 7, 1923, page 389]
  • The Story of Dido and Aeneas (Short Review) [May 20, 1926, page 341]
  • Homo Rapiens, and Other Verses (Short Review) [December 23, 1926, page 951]
  • Our Vanishing Wildflowers, and Other Essays (Short Book Review) [June 28, 1928, page 490]
  • Memories of Bygone Eton (Book Review) [November 8, 1928, page 820]
  • The Story of Aeneas: Virgil's Aeneid, Translated by Henry S. Salt (Book Review) [January 24, 1929, page 55]
  • Company I Have Kept (Book Review) [August 7, 1930, page 636]
  • Cum Grano, Verses and Epigrams (Short Review) [September 17, 1931, page 710]
  • Lowes Dickinson (Letter) [July 5, 1934, page 476]
  • The Creed of Kinship (Short Review) [March 21, 1935, page 179]
  • English Eccentric - Salt and His Circle by Stephen Winsten (Book Review) [October 5, 1951, page 626]
  • Henry Salt, Humanitarian Reformer and Man on Letters by George Hendrick (Book Review) [February 24, 1978, page 224]
  • Animals' Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress (Book Review) [January 16, 1981, page 48]

Photocopied Books:

  • A Plea for Vegetarianism and Other Essays [Vegetarian Society, 1886]
  • The Logic of Vegetarianism: Essays and Dialogues [George Bell & Sons Ltd., 1906]
  • Killing for Sport: Essays by Various Writers [George Bell & Sons Ltd., 1914]
  • Flesh or Fruit? An Essay on Food Reform [W. Reeves and Turner, 1888]

Miscellaneous:

  • Obituary: Mr. H. S. Salt - Man of Letters and Reformer [The Times, April 20, 1939, Page 19] (photocopy)
  • Obituary: Mr. Edward Carpenter - Demoncratic Author and Poet by H. S. Salt [The Times, June 29, 1929, Page 14] (photocopy)

Dan Weinbren

  • "Against All Cruelty" - The Humanitarian League 1891-1919 by Dan Weinbren [History Workshop Journal, 1994]
  • The Humanitarian League, 1891-1919 by Dan Weinbren [MA Dissertation, 1983]
  • Christmas Cruelties by Ernest Bell [Humanitarian League, 1907]
  • The Humanitarian League: What It Is, and What It Is Not [Humanitarian League]

Working Class Movement Library www.wcml.org.uk

Essays:

  • Godwin's "Political Justice" [Time, 1890]
  • The Poet Laurette as Philospher and Peer [To-day, 1884]

Book Reviews:

  • Literary Sketches [To-day, 1888]
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley - A monograph [To-day,1888]
  • The Life of James Thomson (B.V.) [To-day, 1889]

Short Biography:

  • Salt, Henry Shakespear Stephens (1851-1939) by David E. Martin [Biographical Dictionary of Modern British Radicals Volume 3, 1870-1914, L-Z, 1988]

This is just a small list of the items the Working Class Movement Llibrary holds. A more detailed list will appear here shortly.

The Campbell Theosophical Research Library

  • Animals' Rights by Henry S. Salt, (Book Review) [Lucifer, January 1893, Vol. 11 p. 426]

Warwick Anthony Fox

  • Henry S. Salt, Socialist Animal Rights Activist by Brett Clark and John Bellamy Foster [Organisation & Environment, Vol. 13 No. 4, December 2000, pp. 468-473]
  • A Lover of Animals - An Original Play in One Act by Henry S. Salt [Organisation & Environment, Vol. 13 No. 4, December 2000, pp. 474-485]
     
A very sincere thank you to everyone who has donated items to the collection.

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