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Letters, 1920-1938 : written by Henry S. Salt
604 Items

This collection was donation to the Center for Historical Social Science Literature (CHSSL), Hitotsubashi University by Professor Chushichi Tsuzuki.

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 miscellaneous 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

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Mrs. Catherine Salt entrusted Henry Salt’s private collection of photographs, books, letters, and other materials to the publisher Jon Wynne-Tyson. Mr. Wynne-Tyson committed to ensuring that this collection would be preserved by the West Sussex Record Office upon his passing. Unfortunately, shortly after Mr. Wynne-Tyson’s death, his family sold the collection at auction to the highest bidder. This situation vividly illustrates the adage, “For those who don’t know the value but are keen on the price.”

The sale of such a significant collection highlights the importance of clear documentation and legally binding arrangements when dealing with historical collections of cultural importance.

Collection Location: Likely to have disappeared forever

Humanitarian League papers, 1897-1923

In Rare Books and Manuscripts, University Libraries, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. (#1990-0005R).

Henry Stephens Salt was a British author and humanitarian. Among his publications were writings against slavery, corporal punishment, and vivisection, and in support of socialism, vegetarianism, and the protection of wildflowers. As one of the founders of the Humanitarian League (1891-1919), he edited its publications The Humanitarian (1895-1919) and The Humane Review (1900-1910).

The collection contains Salt’s personal family photo album (21 prints), n.d. (These photos have no connection to Henry Salt or his family); membership records of the Humanitarian League, particularly the Croydon, Scottish, and Manchester branches, 1908-1918; letters to league secretary Miss K. Whitaker, 1914-1922; a scrapbook of clippings, 1897-1903; and a broadside, program, and calling cards, 1906-1923.

The scrapbook contains clippings of articles and letters to the editor in British newspapers such as the Daily Mail, Hampshire Independent, Manchester Guardian, Times, and the periodical The Vegetarian about the Humanitarian League, vegetarianism, antivivisection, feather and fur trade, slaughterhouse reform (including Jewish ritual slaughtering, Shehitah), seal hunting, the collecting of tortoise shell, and mistreatment of geese for pate de foie gras.

Writers include Canon Samuel A. Barnett, J. C. Brage, Benjamin Bryan, Jessie Cazalet, Joseph Collinson, E. M. Mallet, Gertrude L. Mallet, S. S. Monro, Henry S. Salt, Ethel Springett, F. Primrose Stevenson, Alexander Waddell, and Edith Ward.

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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.’

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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).

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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.

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Research papers of Henry Salt for his book on James Thomson (1834-82). Salt contacted many friends and acquaintances of Thomson in the quest for information. Many of the replies he received can be seen in MS. Eng. c. 2383. Salt also interviewed several people and was granted access to diaries and journals of Thomson in the possession of J.W. Barrs, many of whose Thomson papers are in the Bodleian – see M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers Summary Catalogue of Post-medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. 1 (Oxford, 1991), nos. 38864-911.

Letters to Salt, 1886-1906
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 2383
Extent: 109 leaves

Scope and Content:

Including letters from

• (fols. 49-50, 88, 107-8) Bertram Dobell, 1888-1906

Papers, 1888-98
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 2384
Extent: 42 leaves

Scope and Content:

Including

• (fols. 1-27) notes from interviews with friends of James Thomson, 1888-98, including (fol. 1) Charles Bradlaugh, 1888
• (fols. 28-32) copies of extracts from Thomson’s diaries and notebooks, 1861-79
• (fols. 39-41) copies of Thomson’s correspondence, 1879-80

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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 ca. 23 pages.

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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.

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The library has several Henry Salt books and several early Socialist journals (e.g. Justice) that feature essays by Salt.

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