Q: Is the second edition of Henry Salt’s Seventy Years Among Savages available in any format?
A: Open Gate Press acquired the rights to the unpublished second edition of Seventy Years Among Savages when they purchased Centaur Press from Jon Wynne-Tyson. It has never been published.
Q: What is your response to criticism by Chushichi Tsuzuki?
A: Henry Salt wrote a very respectful tribute to his very close friend Edward Carpenter in ‘Edward Carpenter: In Appreciation‘. Professor Chushichi Tsuzuki, for reasons best know to himself, appears to have taken offence that Salt portrayed Carpenter as a human being. Tsuzuki’s ‘The Last Years of Edward Carpenter’ is a very sad attempt to create controversy when none existed. George Hendrick’s Henry Salt, Humanitarian Reformer and Man of Letters gives a true account of Salt’s and Carpenter’s great friendship.
Q: Has the manuscript of Salt’s The Philosophy of Failure been found?
A: No and the only reference to it that we are aware of is in Hendrick’s Henry Salt (see page 166). It is likely to have been a case of Salt’s self-deprecating humour.
Q: Is Henry related to Henry Salt (14 June 1780 – 30 October 1827) the English artist, traveller, diplomat, and Egyptologist.
A: No. Henry’s grandfather, Thomas Salt, was born in Rugeley in Staffordshire which is ten of miles from Lichfield where Henry Salt (the Egyptologist) was born.