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
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Books:
A Group of Unpublished Letters by Henry S. Salt to Joseph Ishill
Oriole Press, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey 1942
An Examination of Hogg's 'Life of Shelley' Richard Clay & Sons,
London, 1889
Consolations of a Faddist, Verses Reprinted from 'The Humanitarian',
A. C. Fifield, London, 1906
Eton under Hornby: Some Reminiscences and Reflections A. C. Fifield,
London, 1910
Homo Rapiens, and Other Verses Watts & Co., London, 1926, 70 pages
Literae Humaniores, An Appeal to Teachers The Humanitarian League,
1894
Tennyson As a Thinker A criticism
The Case Against Corporal Punishment The Humanitarian League
The Heart of Socialism: Letters to a Public School Man Independent
Labour Party, London, 1928
The Humanities of Diet, Some Reasonings and Rhymings
The Life of James Thomson ('B.V')
The New Charter, A Discussion of the Rights of Men and the Rights of
Animals George Bell & Sons Ltd., London, 1896
The Nursery of Toryism: Reminiscences and Reflections A. C. Fifield,
London, 1911
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Salt Essays:
Shelley's Gospel of Nature The Hygienic Review, No. 19,
July 1, 1892, pages 185-187
Can the Social Residuum be Stamped Out? Progressive Review,
Vol. 1, No. 5, (Feb 1897), p. 461 (Google Book Search)
Confessions of an Eton Master The Nineteenth Century,
XVII January 1885 (Source 3, page 23 Ref.31)
Herman Melville The Universal Review, IV, 78 (May, 1889)
Imperial Cockneydom, The Scottish Art Review, II, 186-190
(November, 1889)
Nature Lessons from George Meredith The Free Review, September
1896, Vol. IV., p. 502 (Google Book Search)
Socialists and Vegetarians To-day, November 1886, pages 172-74
(Source 3, page 50)
? (unknown title on Socialism) The New Nation's, 12 December
1891 (Google Book Search)
Thoreau Hygienic Review, May 1896 (Source 3, page 110)
Thoreau Temple Bar, November 1886 (Source 3, page 99)
Thoreau's Life The Spectator, No. 65 - October 18, 1890,
pages 526-527 (Source 3, page 103)
Walking Stewart Temple Bar, December 1891, 93: 573-578 (Source
1)
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Poems:
The Joy That Never Palls Progress, VI, November 1886, page
456 (Source 3, page 23 Ref.22)
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Reviews:
Salt and His Circle by John Davies, Vegetarian Messenger,
No date - 1951? (Source 3, page 6 Ref.1)
Life of Thoreau, Animal World (a journal of the RSPCA), November
or December 1890 (Source 1)
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Articles or other sources of information on Salt:
Henry S. Salt, the late Victorian Socialists, and Thoreau, New
England Quarterly, 1977, pages 409-22 (Source 2)
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)
The Books of Henry S. Salt, 1887-1937 by Raymond Adams (Source
3) Online
Version
Literary Comments in the Letters of Henry S. Salt to W.S. Kennedy
by George Hendrick (Source 3)
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RESEARCHER INFORMATION
Salt's Letter can be found:
The Fabrian Archive, Nuffield College, Oxford
Edward Carpenter Collection, Sheffield City Library (website)
also see (A2A
listing)
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
George Meredith
Letters, University
of London - Letters to Salt
Alfred Russel Wallace Collection
- Two letters to Salt
George Bernard Shaw Collection,
Harry
Ransom Centre - Salt
and S. Winsten
Alfred Winslow Hosmer Collection
- Salt Letters
Collections of Salt Material can be found at:
Thoreau Institute (website)
Working Class Movement Library (website)
Northwestern University (website)
University of Oxford, Bodleian Library (website)
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Sources of information:
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)
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