Mrs Catherine Salt entrusted Henry Salt’s private photographs, books, letters and more to the author and publisher Jon Wynne-Tyson. Mr Wynne-Tyson was believed to have arranged that Henry Salt’s collection was to be preserved by the West Sussex Record Office after his passing. Unfortunately auctions of Salt material appeared shortly after Jon’s death in 2020, showing that this priceless collection was sold to the highest bidder by Mr Wynne-Tyson’s family.
Henry S. Salt Collection Part 1
A large archive of copy and research material relating to Henry Salt, including a folder of original TLS to Salt from various correspondents including Ralph Hodgson, Sir William Watson, G W Foote (headed paper of Freethought Publishing Co), Havelock Ellis, Edward Carpenter, etc.
Henry S. Salt Collection Part 2
A collection of documents, ALS and personal papers from the collection of Henry Salt, including: record of appreciation for 20 years devotion to the Humanitarian Cause, signed by George Bernard Shaw, Alfred Carpenter and others, folio printed to one side and folded: printed compliment card from Bernard Shaw, personally inscribed ..’thanks for your letter..I have just heard from HHS and written to him’, signed and dated 8/12/34: calligraphic testimonial dedicated to Henry Salt on the dissolution of the Humanitarian League, 1921, black and red ink on Japanese vellum, grey card covers with red ribbon ties, floral design in watercolour to upper: holograph manuscript for preface to second edition of Salt’s ‘Seventy Years Among Savages’: manuscript ‘to be read at the cremation service of Henry S Salt’, two sheets on ruled paper, folded in original envelope: other holograph manuscripts including ‘Reminiscences of Ernest Bell’: seventeen ALS from Henry Salt to Agnes Davies, 1930s period: plus other related material.
Henry S. Salt Collection Part 3
‘An Examination of Hogg’s ‘Life of Shelley”, London, printed for private circulation only, 1889: twenty-five copies only printed: 8vo, original tan printed boards, edges rubbed, loss to base of spine: ‘Selections from Thoreau..edited by Henry S Salt’, London, Macmillan, 1895: MS dedication to upper flyleaf ‘EMS from HSS, Feb 16, 1895’ bookplate of John Pontin, publisher’s red cloth, 8vo: ‘Kith and Kin, Poems of Animal Life selected by Henry S Salt’, London, George Bell 1901: Henry Salt’s own copy with pencil corrections by him, MS note from JW-T stating ‘copy bought 18.6.81 from his widow..’: together with approx 56 other books by or with associations to Salt, including his own copy of an 1826 New Testament with ownership inscription dated 1851, Humanitarian League Tracts and numerous other works on animal rights, humanitarianism, etc, together with an early 20thc silver gelatin portrait of the subject, framed and glazed.
