Women, Emancipation and Literature The Papers of Harriet Martineau 18021876 from Birmingham University Library
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Throughout this listing the abbreviation HM has been used for Harriet Martineau. The other abbreviations used are:
MS: Holograph manuscript. ALS: Autograph letter, signed. LS: Letter not in the correspondent’s own hand but signed by him or her. AL: Autograph letter, not signed.
In dealing with the contents of the letters only matters which seemed to be of particular interest or importance have been mentioned. Often correspondents addressed their letters to Maria Martineau at times when Harriet Martineau was too ill to write herself. In such cases the letters have been treated as if they were addressed to Harriet herself.
Reel 1 Handlists of the Harriet Martineau Papers
General Correspondence
HM 1: 21.9.1869 ALS from Henrietta Blanche Drummond, Countess of Airlie. Praise of HM’s books; Feats on the Fiord; the Countess’s mother.
HM 2: 13.4.1852 ALS from Ambleside Mechanics Institute. Plans for building public rooms and baths in Ambleside.
HM 38: Correspondence relating to John Anderson, fugitive slave from Missouri
HM 3: 20.7.1861 Printed appeal for funds to bring the Anderson family from Missouri.
HM 4: 27.7.1861 ALS from Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7 th Earl of Shaftesbury.
HM 5: 31.7.1861 ALS from C Baines of Missouri to the Earl of Shaftesbury.
HM 6: 5.9.1861 ALS from E M Davis to the Hon. Charles Sumner.
HM 7: 30.9.1861 ALS from Jos W Calvert to the Hon. Charles Sumner
1 HM 8: 29.10.1861 ALS from the Hon. Charles Sumner to HM.
HM 9: 19.5.1859 ALS from Sir Henry Wentworth Acland. England and Her Soldiers; HM’s “Sanitary work”; encloses some papers on education.
HM 10: 4.6.1862 As 9. HM’s work on sanitary questions; the need to deal with the Thames.
HM 11: 12.1855 AL from Henry G Atkinson. HM’s autobiography.
HM 12: 1.9.1872 ALS from Helen Brown on behalf of HM to Arthur Arnold, about an item on H G Atkinson’s Letters which appeared in the Echo.
HM 13: 1.3.1864 ALS from Thomas Arnold. The death of Maria Martineau.
HM 1416: Correspondence with Mary Arnold
HM 14: 18.4.1866 ALS to HM. HM’s decision to retire from writing for the Daily News.
HM 15: n d ALS to HM. W E Forster.
HM 16: 31.12.1872 ALS to HM. W E Forster; Mrs Arnold’s family.
HM 1723: ALS’s from Matthew Arnold
HM 17: 11.4.1860 His report on education.
HM 18: 24.7.1860 The report. Ragged schools.
HM 19: 30.7.1860 The report.
HM 20: 7.7.1864 Education. His report on public schools.
HM 21: 15.7.1864 Middle class education.
HM 22: 28.4.1866
2 ALS from Francis Arnold. HM’s resignation from the Daily News.
HM 23: 28.12.1870 His Essays.
HM 2429: Correspondence with Henry G Atkinson
HM 24: n d AL to HM. Charles Darwin.
HM 25: 22.6.1855 ALS to HM. Religion.
HM 26: 25.7.1855 ALS to HM. Holidays.
HM 27: 19.12.1855 Copy of ALS from HM. Plates from F Holl for the Autobiography.
HM 28: 9.1.1863 ALS to HM about her health.
HM 29: 10.1.1863 ALS to HM. Thackeray’s Roundabout Papers.
HM 30: 23.5.1871 ALS from C AvezacLavigne. HM’s The Positive Philosophy of A Comte. With a copy of the letter.
HM 3133: ALS’s from George Babb HM 31: 16.1.1871 Traditions of Palestine. With a copy of ALS from HM in reply, 17.1.1871.
HM 32: 19.1.1871 Positive philosophy.
HM 33: 26.1.1871 Thanks for gift of a copy of HM’s The Positive Philosophy of A Comte.
HM 34: 28.3.1861 ALS from Mrs C Bailey about HM’s writings.
HM 3541: ALS’s from Alexander Bain, Professor at Aberdeen
HM 35: 4.1.1867 HM’s work on the Governor Generals of India; James Martineau; University College, London
HM 36: 12.2.1867 Unitarians; philosophy and religion; University College, London.
3 HM 37: 23.2.1867 University College, London.
HM 38: 4.3.1867 As 37.
HM 39: 14.10.1873 John Taylor and Helen Taylor.
HM 40: 4.11.1873 J S Mill.
HM 41: 11.12.1873 J S Mill; Helen Taylor
HM 42: 1.3.1865 ALS from Thomas Squire Barrett. Letters on the Laws of Man Nature and Development. Mesmerism.
HM 43: 3.1865 As 42.
HM 44: 16.12.1871 ALS from F B Barton. AvezacLavigne and the translation of her adaptation of Comte’s Positive Philosophy.
HM 4565: ALS’s from Emily Anne Smythe, Viscountess Strangford, née Beaufort
HM 45: 4.1.1858 Request to HM to write about Sir Francis Beaufort in the Daily News; his life.
HM 46: 9.1.1858 Sir Francis Beaufort.
HM 47: 11.1.1858 As 46.
HM 48: 13.1.1858 ALS from Rosamund E Beaufort, as 46.
HM 49: 13.1.1858 Sir Francis Beaufort; HM’s writings.
HM 50: 20.1 1858 Sir F Beaufort; R E Beaufort.
HM 51: 23.1.1858 Sir F Beaufort.
4 HM 52: 1.2.1858 Sir F Beaufort.
HM 53: 9.2.1858 As 52.
HM 54: 22.2.1858 Death of a relation.
HM 55: 10.2.1860 From Jerusalem. Egypt, Syria etc. Account of her travels with R E Beaufort.
HM 56: 16.9.1860 Jerusalem; Syria; James Finn, the consul at Jerusalem; plans to write a book: Eqyptian Sepulchres and Syrian Shrines. With copies of ALS’s from Elizabeth A Finn to E A Smythe, 4.4, 4.8 and 15.8.1860, about the financial difficulties of the Finns. Also a proclamation by James Finn, 19.7.1860.
HM 57: 15.11.1860 The Finns; their travels; progress on the book.
HM 58: 18.11.1860 Mr Grierson, consul at Latakia.
HM 59: 22.12.1860 The Finns; Spain.
HM 60: 20.1.1861 Plight of the Syrians; the Finns; plans for the book.
HM 61: 27.3.1861 As 60.
HM 62: 6.1861 Back in London; progress of the book.
HM 63: 18.7.1861 Enclosing a copy of her book, which she discusses.
HM 64: 12.9.1861 Her book and HM’s opinion of it; the reviews.
HM 65: 21.12.1861 Second edition of the book; plans to marry Percy Sydney Smythe, 8 th Viscount Strangford.
HM 6670: ALS’s from Rosamund E Beaufort
HM 66: 13.6.1867
5 Maria Edgeworth; faith, etc.
HM 67: 19.6.1867 Faith; George Eliot; Maria Edgeworth; Lucy Robinson; Fanny Wilson.
HM 68: 12.3.1869 ALS from Lady D Belcher to HM about Sir F Beaufort and the office of hydrographer.
HM 69: 30.3.1869 Sir F Beaufort and the office of hydrographer; Lady Belcher.
HM 70: 7.4.1869 As 69.
HM 71: 12?.3.1869 ALS from Lady Diana Belcher to HM; Sir F Beaufort and the office of hydrographer. With copy of ALS from Francis Heywood to the Daily News, February 1858.
HM 72: 13.3.1869 As 72.
HM 74: 21.11.1863 Copy of ALS from HM to Charles D Bell, about rights of way on her property at Ambleside.
HM 75: 23.11.1863 ALS from C D Bell, in reply to 74.
HM 76: 20.9.1851 ALS from Thomas Bell. A business matter.
HM 77: 9.1.18? ALS from Caroline Ashurst Biggs about the National Society for Women’s Suffrage.
HM 78: 11.1.1859 ALS from Edward Boden about his criticism of her in a speech. With newspaper cuttings.
HM 79: 10.3.1870 ALS from Charles Boner. Biographical Sketches; praise of HM’s work.
HM 80: 24.4.1866 ALS from Eliza Bostock. Death of Mrs E J Reid.
HM 8187: Correspondence with Charles Holte Bracebridge
HM 81: 27.10.1859 George Eliot’s Adam Bede and Clerical Scenes. ALS to HM.
6 HM 82: 27.10.1859 As 81.
HM 83: 21.11.1859 Copy of part of ALS from HM. George Eliot; Mrs Gaskell.
HM 84: 29.11.1859 AL from a cousin to HM. George Eliot; Mrs Gaskell; Deerbrook.
HM 85: 25.12.1859 ALS to HM. George Eliot; Mrs Gaskell.
HM 86: 1859 Copy of part of ALS from HM as 85.
HM 87: 1859 ALS to HM, as 85.
HM 88: n d MS note on Dr Reid by Dugald Stewart.
HM 89109: Correspondence relating to Charlotte Bronte, Mrs Gaskell
HM 89: 5.11.1857 Copy of ALS from HM to Patrick Bronte. Charlotte Bronte; Mrs Gaskell.
HM 90: 5.11.1857 ALS from Patrick Bronte.
HM 91: 6.11.1857 ALS from Arthur Bell Nicholls.
HM 92: 9.11.1857 ALS from Mrs E C Gaskell. C Bronte and A B Nicholls.
HM 93: 9.11.1857 ALS from A B Nicholls.
HM 94: 10.11.1857 As 93. Copy of ALS from HM to Nicholls.
HM 95: 11.11.1857 As 93.
HM 96: 11.11.1857 ALS from P Bronte.
Reel 2 HM 97: 12.11.1857 ALS from I Greenwood to A B Nicholls. C Bronte and HM.
7 HM 98: 13.11.1857 ALS from HM to A B Nicholls.
HM 99: 13.11.1857 Copy of ALS from HM to P Bronte.
HM 100: 14.11.1857 ALS from A B Nicholls.
HM 101: 15.11.1857 Copy of ALS from HM to AB Nicholls. HM’s views on publishing private correspondence. All her correspondence is with a friend in America.
HM 102: 1857 ALS from Mrs Gaskell.
HM 103: n d Copy of ALS from C Bronte. Comments on a passage in a letter from HM.
HM 104: 24.11.1857 ALS from Mrs Gaskell.
HM 105: 1857 ALS from HM to A B Nicholls.
HM 106: 7.12.1850; 1.3.1851 Two cuttings from The Leader. Sketches From Life, by HM.
HM 107: 8.1857 Cutting from the Daily News. Mrs Gaskell and the Rev. Patrick Bronte.
HM 108109: 1857 Two other presscuttings, about the above.
HM 110: 6.2.1863 ALS from William Murray Brookes; offer to index Eastern Life.
HM 111: 17.11.1858 ALS from Henry Peter Brougham, 1 st Baron Brougham and Vaux. Abolition of slavery.
HM 112: 25.11.1858 As 111.
HM 113: 23.12.1866 ALS from Helen Brown. Family news.
HM 114: 13.5.1857 As 113. Medicines, etc; spiritualism.
8 HM 115: n d ALS from Isabella Spring Brown, daughter of Helen Brown, about her schooling.
HM 116: 21.3.1862 ALS from H A Bruce. HM’s writings; Sir William Francis Patrick Napier.
HM 117: 31.10.1857 ALS from A Bucheim, about translating some of HM’s work.
HM 118120: ALS’s from Josephine Elizabeth Butler, née Grey
HM 118: 21.12 Family news.
HM 119: 22.12.1872 W E Gladstone; J E Butler’s public work.
HM 120: 3.1872 Thanks for the gift of an ottoman.
HM 121131: Correspondence relating to an article on Lady Byron by HM
HM 121: 2.10.1860 ALS from Mary Carpenter.
HM 122: 26.10.1860 ALS from E Rathbone.
HM 123: 3.11.1860 As 122.
HM 124: 11?.1860 ALS from Mary Arnold.
HM 125: 13.11.1860 ALS from C N Astle about a school in Ealing founded by Lady Byron.
HM 126: 14.11.1860 ALS from Charles Follen about payment for the article on Lady Byron.
HM 127: 27.11.1860 ALS from Helen Martineau.
HM 128: 27.11.1860 ALS from Elizabeth Jesser Reid.
HM 129: 11?.1860 As 128.
9 HM 130: 11.1860 Account by C N Astle of the school, as 125.
HM 131: 1860 MS extract of the article by HM on Lady Byron, published in the Atlantic Monthly.
HM 132162: Correspondence relating to Lady Byron, HM, and an article on Lady Byron by Harriet Beecher Stowe
HM 132: 1869 ALS from Sir John Richard Robinson.
HM 133: 1869 ALS from J Arnold.
HM 134: 1869 Copy of ALS from H Beecher Stowe.
HM 135: 1869 ALS from Mary Louisa Bruce, Lady Elgin and Kincardine.
HM 136: 23.8.1869 ALS from Maria Weston Chapman. Lady Byron; the working classes; women’s suffrage.
HM 137: 30.8.1869 As 136.
HM 138: 2.9.1869 ALS from James Sinclair.
HM 139: 4.9.1869 Copy of ALS from HM to James Sinclair.
HM 140: 6.9.1869 ALS from M W Chapman. Lady Byron; Edmund Quincy; Jane Stuart Wolsey.
HM 141: 6.9.1869 ALS from Sir J R Robinson.
HM 142: 10.9.1869 ALS from M W Chapman.
HM 143: 11.9.1869 ALS from Sir J R Robinson
HM 144: 13.9.1869 ALS from Thomas Walker of the Daily News.
HM 145: 15.9.1869
10 ALS from Lady Elgin and Kincardine.
HM 146: 19.9.1869 ALS from M W Chapman.
HM 147: 22.9.1869 ALS from Sir J R Robinson.
HM 148: 26.9.1869 Copy of ALS from HM to M W Chapman. (2 copies).
HM 149: 26.9.1869 ALS from M W Chapman.
HM 150: 28.9.1869 ALS from Ellen Martineau, afterwards Higginson. With ALS from H E Higginson.
HM 151: 2.10.1869 ALS from Lady Elgin and Kincardine.
HM 152: 10.10.1869 Copy of ALS from H Beecher Stowe to M W Chapman.
HM 153: 11.10.1869 ALS from M W Chapman. Lady Byron; Charles Follen.
HM 154: 14.10.1869 ALS from M W Chapman.
HM 155: 14.10.1869 Copy of ALS from H Beecher Stowe to M W Chapman.
HM 156: 14.10.1869 ALS from Sir J R Robinson.
HM 158: 1.11.1869 As 157.
HM 159: 5.11.1869 ALS from Sir J R Robinson. (With Copy)
HM 160: 9.11.1869 ALS from M W Chapman.
HM 161: 10.11.1869 ALS from Lady Elgin and Kincardine.
HM 162: 16.11.1869 ALS from Sir J R Robinson.
11 Reel 3 HM 163: 20.4.1861 ALS from Felix Carter about copyright on letters.
HM 164: 20.4.1868 As 163, about copyright on letters; E Hunt.
HM 165: 30.1.1862 ALS from J E Cairnes to the Daily News. Slavery in America.
HM 166: 16.3.1856 ALS from Norah D Webb. Ireland, etc.
HM 167: 9.6.1862 ALS from J E Cairnes. Slavery in America.
HM 168: 26.8.1862 As 167.
HM 169175: ALS’s from George William Frederick Howard, 7 th Earl of Carlisle.
HM 169: 12.12.1855 HM’s health.
HM 170: 2.1.1856 As 169.
HM 171: 30.12.1858 Account of a meeting.
HM 172: 23.2.18? Irish Game Bill.
HM 173: 3.10.18? Subscription to a charity; AntiSlavery League.
HM 174: 1.11.18? As 173.
HM 175: 4.12.18? As 173.
HM 176: 20.4.18? ALS from Julie Carter about letters of her father.
HM 177: 8.2.1862 ALS from J Hilary Bonham Carter. Florence Nightingale, the army and the war.
HM 178: 9.2.1862
12 As 177.
HM 179180: Correspondence with the Hon. Simon Cameron.
HM 179: 30.9.1861 Copy of ALS from HM. Health in the army: Florence Nightingale.
HM 180: 6.1.1862 ALS to HM, as 179.
HM 181188: Correspondence with William & Robert Chambers Ltd, Publishers in Edinburgh
HM 181: 21.1.1858 ALS to HM asking her to write part of the History of the Peace.
HM 182: 22.1.1858 Copy of ALS from HM in reply.
HM 183: 26.1.1858 SL to HM about the projected work.
HM 184: 1.2.1858 ALS to HM, as 183.
HM 185: 2.2.1858 Copy of ALS from HM, as 183.
HM 186: 3.2.1858 ALS to HM, as 183.
HM 187: 4.2.1858 Copy to ALS from HM, as 183.
HM 188: 10.2.1858 ALS to HM, as 183.
HM 189242: Correspondence with John Chapman of the Westminster Review
HM 189: 13.9.1855 ALS to HM. Their friendship; business troubles; National Review; Autobiography.
HM 190: 27.9.1855 ALS to HM. Autobiography; his health; business matters.
HM 191: 9.10.1855 ALS to HM. Household Words; business; J A Froude.
HM 192: 22.10.1855
13 ALS to HM. France; Plans for the Westminster article by HM on factory masters; Charles Dickens.
HM 193: 6.11.1855 ALS to HM. HM’s article; Dickens and Household Words.
HM 194: 9.11.1855 ALS to HM. Her article and Dickens.
HM 195: 10.11.1855 ALS to HM, as 194.
HM 196: 16.11.1855 ALS to HM. The article.
HM 197: 19.11.1855 ALS to HM, as 196.
HM 198: 29.3.1856 ALS to HM. An article by her.
HM 199: 6.1.1856 ALS to HM. An article; The Westminster; his medical views.
HM 200: 10.7.1856 ALS to HM. Business matters.
HM 201: 12.1856 Chapman’s accounts for HM’s American Compromise.
HM 202: 12.2.1857 ALS to HM. Financial matters.
HM 203: 19.2.1857 Copy of ALS from Chapman to O H Smith. The state of his business; his plans to become a doctor.
HM 204: 6.8.1858 Copy of ALS from HM. The Westminster.
HM 205: 14.4.1857 ALS to HM. Articles; James Martineau.
HM 206: 16.4.1857 ALS to HM. Article on America.
HM 207: 27.4.1857 ALS to HM. Finance.
HM 208: 9.5.1857
14 ALS to HM. The Westminster and the copyright of James Martineau’s writings; his doctor’s examinations.
HM 209: 12.5.1857 ALS from Thomas Martineau to HM. Chapman and the Westminster.
HM 210: 14.5.1857 ALS to HM. Medical advice.
HM 211: 5.6.1857 As 210.
HM 212: 6.1857 Chapman’s accounts for HM’s American Compromise.
HM 213: 25.7.1857 ALS to HM. Her article on Charlotte Bronte. The Westminster and his views.
HM 214: 2.9.1857 ALS to HM. Finance; and article by HM.
HM 215: 31.10.1857 ALS to HM. Finance and the Westminster.
HM 216: 8.3.1858 ALS to HM. Articles for the Westminster; Comte’s Positive Philosophy.
HM 217: 31.3.1858 ALS to HM. Finance and the Westminster.
HM 218: 1.4.1858 ALS to HM, as 217.
HM 219: 7.5.1858 As 217.
HM 220: 26.5.1858 ALS to HM. Finance and the Westminster; articles by HM.
HM 221: 30.5.1858 ALS to HM. His plans to become a surgeon; finance and the Westminster. ALS to HM.
HM 222: 1.6.1858 Copy of ALS from HM. Finance and the Westminster.
HM 223: 2.6.1858 ALS to HM, as 222.
HM 224: 4.6.1858
15 ALS to HM, as 222.
HM 225: 11.6.1858 ALS to HM, as 222.
HM 226: 12.6.1858 Copy of ALS from HM, as 222.
HM 227: 27.6.1858 ALS to HM, as 222.
HM 228: 2.7.1858 ALS to HM, as 222.
HM 229: 3.7.1858 ALS to HM, as 222.
HM 230: 4.7.1858 Copy of ALS from HM, as 222.
HM 231: 8.7.1858 ALS to HM, as 222.
HM 232: 12.7.1858 ALS to HM, as 222.
HM 233: 16.7.1858 Copy of ALS from HM, as 222.
HM 234: 25.7.1858 ALS to HM, as 222.
HM 235: 29.7.1858 Copy of ALS from HM, as 222.
HM 236: 29.7.1858 ALS to HM, as 222.
HM 237: 31.7.1858 Copy of ALS from HM, as 222.
HM 238: 1858 Copy of Chapman’s account with HM, 18571858.
HM 239: 2.8.1858 ALS to HM, as 222.
HM 240: 24.1.1859 ALS to HM from James J Birt on behalf of Chapman’s firm. Accounts.
16 HM 241: 19.10.1865 Copy of part of ALS from HM. Kant. To Maria Weston Chapman.
HM 242: 1858 Copy of part of ALS from HM. Finance and Westminster.
HM 243: 15.10.1866 ALS from F W Chesson. The Jamaica Committee.
HM 244: 2.3.1875 ALS from Richard Congreve. Comte and Positive philosophy.
HM 245: 8.3.1875 As 244.
HM 246: 15.10.1862 ALS from John Conington, introducing a Mr Boyle.
HM 247: 24.10.1862 As 246, about the History of the Peace.
HM 248: 15.4.1866 ALS from Paul Coq. Illustrations of Political Economy. (In French).
HM 249: 9.11.1854 ALS from Helen Martineau. James Martineau and John Chapman.
HM 250: 10.11.1854 Copy of ALS from HM to Helen Martineau, as 249.
HM 251271: Correspondence with Samuel Courtauld
HM 251: 13.11.1854 Copy of part of ALS to John Chapman. James Martineau and Chapman; Helen Martineau’s comments. With copy of ALS from Courtauld to James Martineau, 12.11.1854.
HM 252: 27.9.1855 ALS to HM. James Martineau, Chapman and the Westminster Review.
HM 253: 9?.1855 ALS to HM as 252, and on religious matters.
HM 254: 1858 Memo by HM of correspondence between Courtauld and Chapman, 1855, 1858 and Courtauld to Octavius Smith, 13.3.1858. About Chapman and the Westminster.
HM 255: 7.6.1858 ALS to HM. Chapman and the Westminster.
17 HM 256: 9.6.1858 ALS to HM. Chapman, the Westminster and Octavius Smith.
HM 257: 14.6.1858 ALS to HM, as above and about George Grote.
HM 258: 12.7.1858 Copy of notes by Courtauld on Chapman.
HM 259: 30.7.1858 Chapman and the Westminster.
HM 260: 7.1858 Notes on the Chapman affair.
HM 261: 29.7.1858 ALS to HM. P A Taylor, his nephew; classes for working men.
HM 262: 7.1858 Notes on the Chapman affair.
HM 263: 7.1858 As 262.
HM 264: 8.1858 As 262.
HM 265: 13.8.1858 ALS to HM. Chapman and the Westminster.
HM 266: 15.8.1858 Copy of ALS to Chapman, as 265.
HM 267: 18.8.1858 ALS to HM, as 265.
HM 268: 16.10.1858 ALS to HM, as 265.
HM 269: 30.11.1858 ALS to HM, as 265.
HM 270: 29.12.1866 ALS to HM, about her article Sketches of Three Noble Men; H G Atkinson; Chapman; Jamaica Committee; Anthropological Society.
HM 271: 1858 Notes on the Chapman affair.
HM 272275: ALS’s from Dr Robert Cox
18 HM 272: 25.5.1865 Thomas Drummond.
HM 273: 19.6.1865 As 272.
HM 274: 12.12.1866 As 272.
HM 275: 14.12.1866 As 272.
HM 276278: ALS’s from George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 3 rd Earl de Grey, afterwards Marquess of Ripon
HM 276: 10.5.1870 Women and the medical profession.
HM 277: 12.5.1870 Thanks for condolences.
HM 278: 23.5.1870
HM 279: 19.4.1858 ALS from Charles Dickens, signature removed. Household Words; Shuttleworth; Macready.
HM 280: 15.12.1855 ALS from N Douglas about HM’s article in the Daily News.
HM 281: 23.2.1859 ALS from Dr J Drysdale, regretting he cannot meet her.
HM 282: 28.2.1859 As 281, with medical advice.
HM 283: 19.12.1871 ALS from Mary Louisa Bruce, Lady Elgin and Kincardine. The royal family.
HM 284: 19.12.1861 Copy of ALS from HM to Dr J Elliotson. H G Atkinson; the Foist.
HM 285: 18.12.1861 ALS from J Elliotson, as 284.
HM 286288: ALS’s from the Rev Whitwell Elwin
HM 286: 27.1.1860 About an article HM is to write.
19 HM 287: 3.2.1860 As 286.
HM 288: 26.4.1860 Florence Nightingale.
HM 289293: ALS’s from Frederick William Evans, of Bradbury & Evans
HM 289: 18.10.1860 Plans for publishing in book form some articles by HM.
HM 290: 17.1.1861 As 289.
HM 291: 1.6.1862 Family news.
HM 292: 13.1.1863 His illness; business matters.
HM 293: 13.4.1863 Business matters.
HM 294: 14.3.1863 ALS from Emily Faithfull. The Victoria Magazine.
HM 295299: Correspondence with Mrs E Farrar
HM 295: 16.10.1865 Copy of ALS from HM about Mrs Farrar’s book, Recollections of Seventy Years. Mistakes about HM in the book.
HM 296: 5.11.1865 Copy of ALS from M W Chapman to Mrs Farrar, as 295.
HM 297298: 8.11.1865 ALS to HM, and copy of the ALS, as 295.
HM 299: 22.12.1865 Copy of ALS to HM, as 295.
HM 300: 10.8.1858 ALS from Rev C F Farrer. The Prince of Wales.
HM 301: 7.10.1858 As 300.
HM 302: 9.11.1861 ALS from John Fenwick, about a Mr Grainger.
20 HM 303309: ALS’s from James Thomas Fields
HM 303: 4?.1869 Invitation to write an article for the Atlantic monthly.
HM 304: 29.5.1869 The article.
HM 305: 29.6.1869 As 304 and about a visit.
HM 306: 30.6.1869 As 305.
HM 307: 1.7.1869 The article; Charles Dickens; the Autobiography.
HM 308: 20.7.1869 The Autobiography.
HM 309: 23.7.1869 As 308.
HM 310: 13.3.1872 ALS from John Fisher, solicitor, on a legal matter.
HM 311: 3.12.1865 ALS from Harriet Fletcher. Feats on the Fiord; death of Mrs Gaskell.
HM 312314: ALS’s from William Edward Forster
HM 312: 25.3.1869 His speech on America. The Civil War.
HM 313: 26.2.1870 Contagious Diseases Act.
HM 314: 2.1870 As 313.
HM 315: 10.1866 ALS from James Anthony Froude, asking HM to write about the American military hospitals during the Civil War. With copy of ALs from HM in reply, 26.10.1866.
HM 316: 5.3.1875 ALS from J W Furness. American slavery.
HM 317: 1.10.1861
21 Printed: Regulations as to the training of midwiferynurses under the Nightingale Fund. “With F.N.’s love.”
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HM 318348: Correspondence with Jeremiah Garnett, Publisher.
HM 318: 14.5.1855 ALS to HM. Engraving and Lithography of Mr Banks for Sketches from Life.
HM 319: 11.9.1855 As 318.
HM 320: 16.12.1855 ALS from Francis Holl, engraver, to H G Atkinson about engravings for Sketches from Life.
HM 321: 17.9.1855 ALS to HM. Sketches from Life.
HM 322: 18.12.1855 ALS from Margaret Gillies to Garnett about an engraving for HM.
HM 323: 18.12.1855 Copy of ALS from HM. Sketches from Life.
HM 324: 28.12.1855 ALS to HM. Sketches from Life.
HM 325: 29.12.1855 As 324.
HM 326: 31.12.1855 As 324.
HM 327: 2.1.1859 As 324.
HM 328: 4.1.1856 Copy of ALS from HM. Sketches from Life.
HM 329: 4.1.1856 As 324.
HM 330: 5.1.1856 As 324.
HM 331: 7.1.1856 As 324.
22 HM 332: 24.1.1856 As 324.
HM 333: 1.1856 Part of ALS from William Banks. Engravings for Sketches from Life.
HM 334: 18.2.1856 As 324.
HM 335: 1.3.1856 As 324. Banks’s terms.
HM 336: 10.1856 Statement of account with HM for Sketches from Life.
HM 337: 4.10.1856 As 324.
HM 338: 9.1864 Copy of part of ALS from HM, about an article: Lights of the Lake District.
HM 339: 4.4.1865 ALS from George Smith about a book on the Lake District by Mr Linton. HM’s Guide to the Lakes; J Garnett.
HM 340: 5.4.1865 ALS to HM. Linton’s book on the Lakes, published by Smith, Elder & Co.
HM 341: 7.4.1865 As 340.
HM 342: 21.4.1865 Copy of ALS from HM, about Linton’s book.
HM 343: 23.4.1865 Copy of part of ALS from HM to George Smith, about Linton’s book.
HM 344: 26.4.1865 Copy of ALS from HM, as 343.
HM 345: 1.1.1869 ALS to HM. Guide to the Lake District.
HM 346: 20.6.1870 ALS from Banks & Co. about illustrations for the Autobiography.
HM 347: 17.7.1870 ALS from McQueen Bros, engravers, to HM about plates for the Autobiography.
HM 348: 1869
23 Copy of ALS from HM about Linton’s book on the Lakes. With ALS from John Wilson to HM about an order for champagne, 20.4.1869?
HM 349: 4.12.1855 ALS from William Lloyd Garrison. M W Chapman; slavery in America; his indebtedness to HM.
HM 350354: ALS’s from Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
HM 350: 1859 Holiday in Whitby; George Eliot and J H Liggins’ Charles H Bracebridge.
HM 351: 6.12.1859 Liggins; Bracebridge; George Eliot.
HM 352: 7.12.1859 As 351.
HM 353: 1859 As 351.
HM 354: 1859 Part of ALS, as 351.
HM 355: 1873 ALS from Ellen Martineau. W E Gladstone.
HM 356359: Correspondence with W E Gladstone
HM 356357: 6.6.1873 Copy of ALS from Gladstone to James Martineau about a pension for HM. (2 copies).
HM 358: 8.6.1873 Copy of ALS from HM to Gladstone, about the pension.
HM 359: 9.6.1873 ALS to HM, as above.
HM 360365: ALS’s from John T Gordon, Sheriff of Midlothian
HM 360: 13.1.1859 Guide to the Lakes; Christopher North.
HM 361: 23.2.1859 As 360.
HM 362: 10.3.1859 As 360.
HM 363365: ALS’s from W T Greenhow
24 HM 363: 24.1.1861 About inheriting some property.
HM 364: 4.2.1861 As 363.
HM 365: 3.6.1861 As 363.
HM 366: 10.9.1871 Copy of ALS from HM to Henry M Greenhow, about the gift of an inkstand.
HM 367: 12.9.1871 ALS from Greenhow to HM in reply to 366. With copy of ALS from HM, 14.9.1871.
HM 368378: Correspondence with Robert Perceval Graves.
HM 368: 1858? ALS to HM. Publishing matters; Smith & Elder.
HM 369: 1858? As 368.
HM 370: 1858? ALS to HM. Lord Carlisle.
HM 371: 1858 ALS to HM. Endowed schools in Ireland. Royal Commission.
HM 372: 1858 As 371.
HM 373: 1858 As 371.
HM 374: 14.10.1858 As 371.
HM 375: 1858 As 371.
HM 376: 1858 ALS to HM about some books by W Stephens.
HM 377: 1858 As 371.
HM 378: 9.9.1858 As 371.
25 HM 379382: Correspondence with Charles Graves
HM 379: 20.9.1858 ALS to R P Graves. HM’s article on Endowed schools in Ireland and the Report on them.
HM 380: 20.9.1858 Copy of part of the above.
HM 381: 29.9.1858 ALS to R P Graves, as 379.
HM 382: 19.10.1858 As 379.
HM 383: 25.10.1858 ALS from Richard (?) Hancock. The endowed schools of Ireland Report and HM’s articles on it.
HM 384: 18.12.1863 ALS from R P Graves. Death of Lord Elgin; History of the Peace; Education and Ireland.
HM 385404: Correspondence with George Grote
HM 385: 2.4.1858 Copy of ALS to HM. John Chapman and the Westminster Review.
HM 386: 3.4.1858 ALS to HM, as 385.
HM 387: 3.5.1858 As 386.
HM 388: 12.5.1858 As 386.
HM 389: 23.5.1858 ALS from Harriet Grote to HM. Women graduates at London University; educational questions.
HM 390: 27.5.1858 ALS from Harriet Grote to HM. Photography; George Grote’s health.
HM 391: 29.5.1858 As 386.
HM 392: 7.6.1858 ALS from Samuel Courtauld to G Grote. HM Chapman and the Westminster.
26 HM 393: 2.6.1858 As 386.
HM 394: 4.6.1858 As 386.
HM 395: 5.6.1858 Copy of ALS from HM, as 385.
HM 396: 7.6.1858 As 386.
HM 397: 8.6.1858 As 386.
HM 398: 9.6.1858 As 386.
HM 399: 11.6.1858 As 386.
HM 400: 18.6.1858 Copy of ALS from HM, as 385.
HM 401: 22.6.1858 As 386.
HM 402: 23.6.1858 Copy of ALS from HM, as 385.
HM 403: 24.6.1858 As 386.
HM 404: 26.6.1858 As 386.
HM 405421: Correspondence with Harriet Grote
HM 405: 2.2.1867 ALS to HM. H Grote’s writings; George Grote.
HM 406: 22.6.1871 ALS to HM. Death of G Grote.
HM 407: 21.10.1871 ALS to HM. Death of G Grote; his library to go to London University. Publishing news.
HM 408: 30.10.1871
27 ALS to HM. Natural religion; social sciences; London University matters.
HM 409: 4.11.1871 ALS to HM. News of H Grote’s writings; London University.
HM 410: 1.1.1872 ALS to HM. Biography of G Grote.
HM 411: 17.5.1872 ALS to HM. George Grote; London University.
HM 412: 16.8.1872 ALS to HM. G Grote biography.
HM 413: 10.5.1873 ALS to HM, as 412.
HM 414: 29.7.1873 ALS to HM. Politics.
HM 415: 18.12.1873 ALS to HM. G Grote biography; W E Gladstone.
HM 416: 1.2.1874 ALS to HM. J S Mill; the Spectator.
HM 417: 2.3.1874 ALS to HM. J S Mill; politics.
HM 418: 7.12.1874 ALS to HM. H Grote’s health.
HM 419: 19.4.1875 ALS to HM. Memoirs of Charles Cavendish, Fulke Greville.
HM 420: 17.6.1875 ALS to HM. Lord Grey; the Poor Law.
HM 421: 14.12.1875 ALS to HM. J S Mill’s Essays on Religions.
Reel 5 HM 422: 13.10.1858 ALS from George Smith, of Smith & Elder, about publishing from the Daily News in book form.
HM 423: 4.1.1856 ALS from A V Harcourt. A moralising letter.
HM 424: 2.4.1859
28 ALS from Thomas Harrison on a legal matter.
HM 425: 5.1873 ALS from Mary J Herford about the Women’s Peace Society.
HM 426: 5.1873 Copy of ALS from HM to M J Herford, as 425.
HM 427: 13.12.1856 ALS from Joseph Heron, praising one of her books.
HM 428441: ALS’s from Sara Hennell
HM 428: 13.4.1860 S Hennell’s difficulties in writing books; Herbert Spencer; positive philosophy; James Martineau; Unitarianism; H G Atkinson; phrenology; Caroline Hennell.
HM 429: 24.6.1860 H G Atkinson; her ideas of nature; positive philosophy; mesmerism; C Darwin.
HM 430: n d Copy of part of ALS from ? to Caroline Bray, née Hennell about a Mr Bracebridge.
HM 431: 26.10.1859 George Eliot and J H Liggins; Mrs Gaskell. With cutting from Coventry Herald: The authorship of Adam Bede.
HM 432: 29.10.1859 George Eliot: how she changed her name from Mary Ann to Marian; Liggins.
HM 433: 31.10.1859 Mrs Gaskell; George Eliot; Liggins; Bracebridge.
HM 434: 10.11.1859 As 433.
HM 435: 27.11.1859 As 433.
HM 436: 9.12.1859 As 433.
HM 437: 10.12.1859 As 433.
HM 438: 1859 Part of ALS, as 433.
HM 439: 1859 Part of ALS, as 433.
29 HM 440: 1859? Part of ALS. Christianity.
HM 441: 1859? Part of ALS. H G Atkinson and positive philosophy.
HM 442: 30.3.1856 ALS from Francis Holl, engraver, about some work for HM.
HM 443: 15.6.1870 ALS from Holl to H G Atkinson, as above.
HM 444446: Correspondence with Holt and Williams, Publishers
HM 444: 27.3.1872 ALS to HM. Biographical Sketches.
HM 445: 12.4.1872 ALS from Sampson, Low & Co. to HM, sending money from Holt and Williams.
HM 446: 13.4.1872 Copy of ALS from HM. Biographical Sketches.
HM 447460: ALS’s from Richard Henry Horne
HM 447: 27.3.1844 Proposals to write a book on deformed children.
HM 448: 6.4.1844 As 447; about children’s books.
HM 449: 26.4.1844 As 447; a party at Carlyle’s; HM’s first meeting with H H Hunt.
HM 450: 1.5.1844 Circular by Charles Knight on books he proposes to publish; the book on deformed children; Edward Moxon.
HM 451: 16.5.1844 Moxon; Charles Knight; Laura Bridgman.
HM 452: 3.6.1844 L Bridgman; his New Spirit of the Age; HM’s refusal of a pension; Deerbrook.
HM 453: 9.6.1868 ALS from Henry Hoare to HM about her abridgment of Comte’s Positive Philosophy; Hoare’s opinions of sociology.
HM 454: 4.3.1872
30 His lectures in Edinburgh; education of deformed children; his poem The Great Peacemaker.
HM 455: 7.3.1872 Copy of ALS from HM, as 454.
HM 456: 27.3.1872 The book on deformed children.
HM 457: 30.4.1872 As 456.
HM 458: 13.9.1872 Maria Brook, an American poet.
HM 459: 27.9.1872 The treatment of deformity in literature.
HM 460: 30.10.1874 As 456.
HM 461464: Correspondence with Sydney Hunt – ALS’s to HM
HM 461: 1868 About some letters of HM to Frederick Knight Hunt.
HM 462: 22.4.1868 As 461.
HM 463: 22.6.1868 As 461.
HM 464: 19.1.1869 As 461.
HM 465469: Correspondence with Frederick Everard Hunt
HM 465: 21.4.1868 Copy of ALS from HM about the sale of some letters from her to Frederick Knight Hunt. With copy of ALS from HM to Sydney Hunt on the same subject.
HM 466: 22.4.1868 ALS to HM, as 465. With copy. Also with copy of ALS’s from HM to S Hunt and F E Hunt, 24.4.1868.
HM 467: 4.5.1868 Copy of ALS from HM, as 465.
HM 468: 6.5.1868 ALS to HM as 465.
31 HM 469: 8.5.1868 Copy of ALS from HM, as 465.
HM 470: n d MS list of HM’s writings, 18221834.
HM 471523: ALS’s from HM to Frederick Knight Hunt, editor of the Daily News
HM 471: 17.5.1852 Subjects for articles: emigration, American politics, slavery. Ireland. (Incomplete).
HM 472: 12.12.1855 ALS to Mrs Hunt on the death of F K Hunt.
HM 473: 1.4.18? Game laws; plight of the dressmakers; Queen Victoria; articles in the Leader.
HM 474: n d About articles; Lord Clarendon.
HM 475: 8.5.18? About an article.
HM 476: n d Her trip to Ireland.
HM 477: 26.6.18? Arrangements for a visit by Hunt.
HM 478: 20.1.18? Article on W R Greg; her views of titles and pensions for authors; Charles Dickens; agriculture.
HM 479: 17.5.18? Reasons why she cannot visit Austria.
HM 480: 6.6.18? Finance; articles.
HM 481: n d Plans to visit London; epidemic in Liverpool; articles.
HM 482: n d About an article
HM483: n d Article on Wilson; Joseph Mazzini.
32 HM 484: n d Russia; articles.
HM 485: n d Politics; articles.
HM 486: n d Country justices.
HM 487: n d Matthew Arnold; W Arnold.
HM 488: n d Articles; army views on newspapers.
HM 489: n d W Arnold.
HM 490: n d Article on guns; Duchess of Gloucester.
HM 491: 24.10.18 ? Articles on America, etc.
HM 492: 25.6.18 ? Articles.
HM 493: 11.11.18? Daniel Webster.
HM 494: 25.11.18? The Misses Berry; Samuel Rogers; Disraeli.
HM 495: n d Articles.
HM 496: 15.2.1856? ALS (to Mrs Hunt?) with condolences.
HM 497: 2.5.18? Articles; Lord Murray.
HM 498: n d Colonel Radice.
HM 499: 6.4.18? Sir J KayShuttleworth; education.
HM 500: 1.7.18? Articles; HM’s translation of Comte’s Positive Philosophy.
33 HM 501: 22.5.18? Article on cheese.
HM 502: n d Article on America.
HM 503: n d Articles; Austria; Russia; America.
HM 504: n d Articles; Eastern Life.
HM 505: n d Jamaica; politics.
HM 506: n d Disraeli; politics.
HM 507: n d Articles.
HM 508: n d Articles.
HM 509: 12.1.18? Irish affairs.
HM 510: 6.1.18? As 509.
HM 511: 6.6.18? Articles.
HM 512: 13.7.18? Articles.
HM 513: 9.6.18? Articles.
HM 514: 20.9.18? Articles; buying a house.
HM 515: n d Lord Franklin; articles.
HM 516: 12.10.18? Articles; Deerbrook.
HM 517: n d
34 Ireland.
HM 518: n d The census. Description of a house at Ambleside suitable for Hunt.
HM 519: n d Gervinus.
HM 520: 19.6.18? Finance; her work for the Daily News.
HM 521: 17.11.18? America; articles.
HM 522: n d Catherine Crowe, etc.
HM 523: 28.4.18? Articles; plans for summer travels.
Reel 6 HM 524: 30.4.1867 ALS from the Ireland Education Office. Eastern Life.
HM 525: 29.1.1863 ALS from Pilkington Jackson. Soldiers’ Homes; the army; Florence Nightingale.
HM 526: 5.4.1862 ALS from Robert Jefferson, about the sale of one of HM’s cottages.
HM 527535: Correspondence with Barry Knight
HM 527: 22.4.1868 ALS to HM about books to be ordered for M W Chapman.
HM 528: 10.5.1868 As 527.
HM 529: 12.5.1868 ALS from Edward Moxon & Co about Eastern Life being out of print.
HM 530: 4.8.1868 Bill for books supplied to HM. With two lists of books made by HM.
HM 531: 31.5.1868 About books supplied. ALS to HM.
HM 532: 3.6.1868 As 531.
35 HM 533: 4.8.1868 ALS from George Routledge to Jackson, about books.
HM 534: 5.8.1868 ALS to HM, about books.
HM 535: 6.2.1874 ALS from George Clowes to Knight. The Billow and the Rock.
HM 536: 31.5.1859 ALS from Charles Knight, publisher. Samuel Lucas and Once a Week; Charles Dickens.
HM 537: 17.9.1860 As 536. F W Evans; slavery; J A Froude.
HM 538: 28.1.1861 ALS from Angelika von Lagerström. Plans to write biographical sketches of famous English women; Florence Nightingale.
HM 539554: ALS’s from Dr Peter Mere Latham
HM 539: 12.1.1855 Medical Matters and HM’s health.
HM 540: 18.1.1855 As 539.
HM 541: 20.2.1855 As 539.
HM 542: 29.3.1855 As 539.
HM 543: 16.4.1855 As 539.
HM 544: 21.5.1855 As 539.
HM 545: 25.5.1855 As 539.
HM 546: 15.6.1855 As 539.
HM 547: 9.8.1855 As 539.
HM 548: 11.8.1855
36 As 539.
HM 549: 17.11.1855 As 539.
HM 550: 19.2.1856 As 539.
HM 551: 12.5.1856 As 539.
HM 552: 26.7.1856 As 539.
HM 553: 22.4.1857 As 539.
HM 554: 1.12.1857 As 539. With a note in HM’s writing.
HM 555: 4.10.1855 ALS from Edward Lear. His illness.
HM 556: 27.10.1855 As 555. A drawing for HM; his illness; plans to go abroad.
HM 557559 Three cuttings about The Playfellow.
HM 560: 9.4.1859 Letter from HM to The Critic about Charles Dickens and Household Words.
HM 561: 2.8.1869 ALS from Leypoldt & Holt, Publishers. Biographical Sketches; Autobiography. With statement of account.
HM 562: 25.8.1869 Copy of ALS from HM to Leypoldt & Holt, as 561.
HM 563: 4.9.1860 ALS from H J Lincoln of the Daily News.
HM 564: 22.1.1862 ALS from E Littré. A Comte’s letters.
HM 565: 28.5.1868 Copy of ALS from Miss Lloyd. Pargeter Trust, etc.
HM 566609: Correspondence with Samuel Lucas, of Once a Week. ALS’s to HM
37 HM 566: 10.1860 ALS from C D Yonge to Lucas. Death of Mrs Greenhow.
HM 567: 25.5.1855 Prescription for HM by P M Latham.
HM 568: 20.11.1859 ALS to Charles Knight. Possibility of HM writing for Once a Week.
HM 569: 2.6.1859 Articles for Once a Week.
HM 570: 8.6.1859 As 569.
HM 571: 27.6.1859 As 569.
HM 572: 5.7.1859 As 569. Charlotte Bronte.
HM 573: 22.7.1859 As 569.
HM 574: 9.9.1859 As 569. Public schools.
HM 575: 13.10.1859 As 569.
HM 576: 17.10.1859 As 569.
HM 577: 21.10.1859 As 569.
HM 578: 30.10.1859 ALS from Maria Martineau to HM about Lucas.
HM 579: 20.1.1860 As 569.
HM 580: 23.1.1860 As 569.
HM 581: 26.1.1860 As 569.
HM 582: 5.3.1860
38 As 569.
HM 583: 1.9.1860 As 569. Historiettes.
HM 584: 4.10.1860 As 569. Death of Mrs Greenhow.
HM 585: 2.3.1861 As 569.
HM 586: 7.3.1861 As 569. Lady Byron.
HM 587: 4.5.1861 As 569.
HM 588: 1.6.1861 As 569.
HM 589: 8.6.1861 As 569.
HM 590: 13.6.1861 As 569.
HM 591: 26.6.1861 As 569.
HM 592: 13.11.1861 As 569. John Bright.
HM 593: 1.12.1861 As 569.
HM 594: 20.3.1862 Articles: W M Thackerary.
HM 595: 3.4.1862 Articles.
HM 596: 24.7.1862 Articles.
HM 597: 10.1862 Mrs Henry Wood and East Lynne. (Incomplete).
HM 598: 23.12.1862 Articles.
39 HM 599: 9.4.1863 As 598.
HM 600: 5.6.1863 As 598.
HM 601: 6.10.1863 As 598.
HM 602: 13.11.1863 As 598.
HM 603: 29.11.1863 As 598.
HM 604: 22.12.1863 As 598.
HM 605: 29.3.1864 As 598.
HM 606: 27.5.1864 As 598.
HM 607: 30.7.1864 As 598.
HM 608: 27.8.1864 As 598.
HM 609: 9.3.1865 ALS from E Walford to HM about the demise of Once a Week.
HM 610: 3.5.1870 Copy of ALS from HM to ?. Death of Margaret Fuller.
HM 611622: ALS’s from Alexander Macmillan, Publisher
HM 611: 14.12.1868 Publishing of Biographical Sketches.
HM 612: 12.1.1869 As 611.
HM 613: 2.2.1869 As 611.
HM 614: 4.3.1869 Various publishing matters.
40 HM 615: 17.3.1869 Publishing Letter to the Deaf.
HM 616: 19.4.1869 As 611.
HM 617: 30.12.1869 As 611.
HM 618: 7.1.1870 Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book on Lady Byron.
HM 619: 8.2.1870 As 611.
HM 620: 14.2.1870 Biographical Sketches; Mrs Stowe and Lady Byron.
HM 621: n d ALS to Sir J R Robinson from Macmillan.
HM 622: n d AL from the editor of the Dublin Evening Mail with review of Biographical Sketches. With covering note from Macmillan.
HM 623: 29.6.1867 ALS from John Ferguson McLennan about his Memoir of Edward Drummond.
HM 624: 22.7.1867 As 623.
HM 624 A : 21.4.1856 ALS from McQueen Bros, engravers, about some printing plates.
HM 625: 7.8.1872 ALS from Basil Martineau about a wedding gift.
HM 626: 6.8.1872 Copy of ALS from HM, as 625.
HM 627: 28.9.1871 Copy of part of ALS from HM to Constance Martineau about “the James MS”.
HM 628: 13.7.1858 ALS from David Martineau, enclosing money to pay a bill.
HM 629: 14.3.1864 As 628, offering to help.
HM 630: 25.3.1863
41 ALS from Edward Kentish Martineau on a financial matter.
HM 631637: Correspondence with Helen Martineau
HM 631: 11.7.1851 ALS from HM. The quarrel with James Martineau over H G Atkinson.
HM 632: 14.7.1851 As 631.
HM 633: 17.7.1851 As 631.
HM 634: 1851 ALS to HM, as 631.
HM 635: 1851 As 634.
HM 636: 1851 As 634.
HM 637: 1851 ALS to HM about a visit to the Lakes.
HM 638652: ALS’s from Richard Martineau
HM 638: 11.4.1856 Business matters; an engraving of HM.
HM 639: 10.1857 Business; family news. (Incomplete).
HM 640: 9.4.1858 Business.
HM 641: 14.4.1858 As 639.
HM 642: 7.8.1858 As 640.
HM 643: 12.10.1858 As 640.
HM 644: 23.3.1859 As 639.
HM 645: 20.4.1859 Business; politics.
42 HM 646: 24.10.1859 As 639.
HM 647: 13.2.1860 As 639.
HM 648: 15.10.1860 As 640.
HM 649: 17.4.1862 As 640.
HM 650: 30.1.1864 Engagement of his son, John.
HM 651: 10.2.1864 Business; his health.
HM 652: 11.3.1864 As 639.
HM 653: 9.1.1855 ALS from Robert Martineau. The quarrel with James Martineau.
Reel 7
HM 654660: ALS’s from Russell Martineau
HM 654: 26.7.1854 Family differences over his father, James Martineau.
HM 655: 19.7.1859 As 654.
HM 656: 22.7.1859 As 654.
HM 657: 25.7.1859 As 654.
HM 658: 25.7.1859? ALS from L A Jevons to HM about a visit to Ambleside.
HM 659: 4.12.1860 About his engagement.
HM 660: 3.3.1864 Death of Maria Martineau.
43 HM 661663: ALS’s from Susan Martineau
HM 661: 13.5.1851 Tightlacing of girls. (Incomplete).
HM 662: 13.3.1864 Plans for Jane Martineau to replace Maria as HM’s companion.
HM 663: 20.2. About an article by HM; HM’s lectures.
HM 664: 13.8.1861? ALS from L W Morris, about the breaking off of her engagement to Russell Martineau.
HM 665: 20.3.1869 ALS from Amelia Matilda Murray. H G Atkinson and HM’s Letters and their views.
HM 666684: ALS’s from Thomas Martineau
HM 666: 6.2.1852 ALS. Legal matter.
HM 667: 14.2.1855 John Chapman and the Westminster Review.
HM 668: 8.3.1855 Legal matter. The state of trade in Birmingham and district.
HM 669: 12.3.1855 HM’s will. Mr Saunders and letters of HM. HM’s Memoir.
HM 670: 14.3.1855 Business and publishing matters.
HM 671: 2.4.1855 HM’s will; the disposal of her books.
HM 672: 1.5.1855 Autobiography.
HM 673: 3.5.1855 As 672.
HM 674: 8.5.1855 Business matters.
HM 675: 21.6.1855 As 674.
44 HM 676: 3.2.1857 As 674.
HM 677: 16.2.1858 As 674.
HM 678: 14.2.1861 Business and family matters.
HM 679: 1855 Copy of codicil of HM’s will giving Thomas Martineau the right to dispose of HM’s books.
HM 680: 5.6.1861 Legal matter concerning M T Greenhow.
HM 681: 15.11.1862 Legal matter; Mr Cragg.
HM 682: 23.3.1864 Legal matter.
HM 683: 8.10.1874 Publishing matter.
HM 684: 17.10.1874 As 683.
HM 685688: ALS’s from David Masson
HM 685: 11.4.1862 About an article for Macmillan’s Magazine on America.
HM 686: 17.4.1862 As 685.
HM 687: 5.5.1862 As 685.
HM 688: 11.10.1862 As 685 and about the Antislavery movement.
HM 689: 6.1860 ALS from A des Masters (?) about Napoleon III. (In French).
HM 690693: ALS’s from Richard Monckton Milnes, 1 st Baron Houghton
HM 690: 20.9.1862 The USA. His health.
45 HM 691: 14.10.1863 His health; Florence Nightingale; politics.
HM 692: 15.11.18? The Useful Knowledge Society.
HM 693: n d About one of HM’s books.
HM 694: 6.9.1860 ALS from E Napier, about an article by HM.
HM 695: 25.3.1864 As 694, enclosing a book.
HM 696: 4.10.1862 ALS from Richard Napier. An American matter.
HM 697: 13.12.1863 As 696, about his niece and books by his brother.
HM 698: 20.3.1862 ALS from Francis W Newman. Campaign to enable women to take the exams of London University.
HM 699: 18.1.1863? ALS from Selena Bracebridge, Florence Nightingale – imputations against her by Miss Salisbury.
HM 700709: Correspondence relating to Florence Nightingale
HM 700: 9.5.1863 ALS from Florence Nightingale, arranging a meeting.
HM 701: 11.7.1863 ALS from F Nightingale.
HM 702: 23.9.1863 As 700, about F Nightingale’s illness and domestic arrangements.
HM 703: 27.10.1863 As 700. India; the War Office; articles.
HM 704: 14.12.1863 As 700. The death of Lady Elgin; F Nightingale’s work; India.
HM 705: 1863? ALS from William Weir of the Daily News, to HM. Florence Nightingale and Miss Salisbury.
46 HM 706: 1863? As 705.
HM 707: 1863? As 705.
HM 708: 1863? ALS from J Hilary Bonham Carter to HM. F Nightingale and Miss Salisbury.
HM 709: 1863? ALS from Charles Holte Bracebridge to HM. F Nightingale and Miss Salisbury.
HM 710712: Correspondence with Lady Annabella J Noel
HM 710: 4.1.1861 ALS to Mrs Reid from Lady Noel, asking her to forward a letter to HM.
HM 711: 4.1.1861 ALS to HM about Lady Byron.
HM 712: 26.2.1869 As 711.
HM 713: 10.2.1852 ALS from Follett Osler about an article by her on Chances’s glass works in Birmingham.
HM 714716: ALS’s from James Payn, editor of Chambers Journal
HM 714: 27.1.1875 His dismissal as editor; Autobiography.
HM 715: 1.2.1875 As 714.
HM 716: 5.2.1875 ALS from Thomas Martineau to Miss Godwin about J Payn.
HM 718: 14.8.1858 ALS from Sir Lewis Pelly. General Jacobs; Comte and positive philosophy; the English army in India.
HM 719: 28.12.1858 As 718. The death of Jacobs.
HM 720: 29.7.1869 ALS from S Butler Provis. Biographical Sketches.
HM 721: 3.8.1869 As 720.
47 HM 722724: ALS’s from Isabella Rankin
HM 722: 25.1.1861 Finances; news of friends; plans.
HM 723: 1.4.1861 As 722.
HM 724: 4?1861 As 722.
HM 725730: ALS’s from Henry Reeve, editor of the Edinburgh Review
HM 725: 23.6.1858 HM’s writings for the Daily News.
HM 726: 10.2.1863 “the M’Conachie troubles”; politics; literary matters; cotton industry.
HM 727: 24.1.1863 Transportation of convicts; Kingslake.
HM 728: 26.1.1863 Transportation of convicts.
HM 729: 22.4.1863 Politics; France and Russia; America.
HM 730: 8.9.1863 An article on mining by HM.
HM 731: 14.7.1861 ALS from Elizabeth Jesser Reid. Reid’s gift of £300 to educate poor girls at Bedford College.
HM 732: 9.12.1855 ALS from George Richmond. A print of HM by Richmond.
HM 733: 23.3.1856 As 732.
HM 734: 11.12.1871 ALS from George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 3 rd Earl De Grey. Mr Lloyd; Prince of Wales’s illness.
HM 735: 6.1.1869 ALS from Jane M Robinson. Biographical Sketches.
HM 736774: ALS’s from Sir John Richard Robinson, of the Daily News
48 HM 736: 1869 Biographical Sketches.
HM 737: 15.2.1869 Biographical Sketches; Daily News.
HM 738: 30.8.1868 As 736. (With a copy).
HM 739: 5.9.1868 Copy of ALS from HM, as 736
HM 740: 7.9.1868 As 736. (With a copy).
HM 741: 12.9.1868 As 736.
HM 742: 13.11.1868 As 736.
HM 743: 16.11.1868 Daily News.
HM 744: 11.12.1868 Biographical Sketches; railway shares; John Bright.
HM 745: 18.12.1868 As 736.
HM 746: 16.12.1868 As 736.
HM 747: 17.12.1868 A newspaper matter.
HM 748: 14.1.1869 As 736.
HM 749: 16.2.1869 As 736.
HM 750: 18.3.1869 Biographical Sketches; Lady Belcher.
HM 751: 18.3.1869 As 750.
HM 752: 29.3.1869
49 Lady Belcher; Feats on the Fiord.
HM 753: 20.4.1869 Biographical Sketches; evening newspapers.
HM 754: 26.1.1870 Biographical Sketches; a new editor for the Daily News.
HM 755: 8.2.1870 As 736.
HM 756: 16.6.1870 Asking for Biographical details of HM.
HM 757: 20.6.1870 Thanks for information. (Incomplete).
HM 758: 22.5.1871 His children; Crofton Boys; politics; Robert Browning.
HM 759: 7.1871 About an unspecified cause.
HM 760: 1871?
HM 761: 27.10.1871 Loss of his son and birth of another; newspaper matters; Chicago Tribune.
HM 762: 7.12.1871? Turtles; Daily News; his children.
HM 763: 28.12.71 Newspaper and family matters; Mr Forster.
HM 764: 3.1.1872 Death of his son.
HM 765: 14.2.1872 Gladstone and America.
HM 766: 5.1872 Punishment of husbands who maltreat their wives.
HM 767: 9.10.1872 Dr Carpenter; Charles Sumner.
HM 768: 9.11.1872 Family news.
HM 769: 18.2.1873
50 Politics; family and newspaper matters.
HM 770: 8.5.1873 Praise for her work; his visit to France; French affairs.
HM 771: 9.10.1873 H g Atkinson’s letters.
HM 772: 29.10.1873 His visit to HM.
HM 773: 1.10.1874 His family; new printing machinery for the Daily News; Gladstone.
HM 774: 11.5.1875 Eastern Life; Life in the Sick Room; E Moxon.
HM 775: 24.4.1867 ALS from Edward Romilly about a pamphlet by Romilly’s brother.
HM 776: 24.4.1867? ALS from S Romilly about Sir John Walsham’s family.
HM 777779: Correspondence with Lord John Russell
HM 777: 22.9.1860 Copy of ALS from HM. James Finn, the consul at Jerusalem.
HM 778: 29.9.1860 ALS to HM, as 777.
HM 779: 8.10.1860 As 778.
HM 780: 25.6.1855 ALS from John Ryland concerning HM’s will.
Reel 8 HM 781: 2.3.1869 ALS from the Rev Thomas Sadler about Crabb Robinson.
HM 782: 6.3.1869 As 781. Crabb Robinson; Life in the Sick Room.
HM 783: 18.3.1863 ALS from John Saunders. A debt; his health.
HM 784: 21.3.1863 As 783.
51 HM 785: n d ALS from J Elizabeth Scott, about an evening school.
HM 786788: ALS’s from Sarah B Shaw
HM 786: 7.4.1864 Death of her son in war.
HM 787: 26.6.1874 Enclosing an eulogy on Colonel Sumner.
HM 788: 29.7.1874 Colonel Sumner.
HM 789: 8.10.1863 ALS from James C Shepherd. Thanks for a money gift to their children.
HM 790: 8.10.1863 ALS from HM to J C Shepherd, as 789.
HM 791821: Correspondence with George Smith, of Smith & Elder
HM 791: 5.8.1857 ALS to HM. British rule in India.
HM 792: 15.9.1857 As 791.
HM 793: 16.9.1857 Copy of ALS from HM, as 791.
HM 794: 17.9.1857 As 791.
HM 795: 18.9.1857 As 791.
HM 796: 27.10.1857 As 791.
HM 797: 30.10.1857 As 791.
HM 798: 6.11.1857 ALS to HM. Deerbrook.
HM 799: 9.11.1857 ALS to HM. Household Education.
HM 800: 12.11.1857
52 As 799.
HM 801: 14.11.1857 As 799.
HM 802: 21.11.1857 ALS to HM. Mrs Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Bronte; A B Nicholls; Household Education.
HM 803: 6.12.1857 ALS to HM, about various of her works.
HM 804: 19.12.1857 ALS to HM. Publication of a work by HM; Daily News; his hectic life.
HM 805: 6.2.1858 ALS to HM. Terms of publication for a pamphlet.
HM 806: 26.6.1858 ALS to HM. E Moxon; Forest and Game Law Tales; Life of Metcalfe; East India Co.
HM 807: 10.10.1858 ALS to HM. Her articles on the endowed schools of Ireland.
HM 808: 12.10.1858 Copy of ALS from HM, as 807.
HM 809810: 14.10.1858 Agreement between HM and Smith & Elder about publication of the articles on the endowed schools of Ireland. With covering letter.
HM 811: 5.11.1858 ALS to HM, as 809.
HM 812: 15.1.1859 Copy of ALS from HM. Florence Nightingale and the report on sanitation in the army. Crimea.
HM 813: 18.1.1859 As 812, ALS to HM.
HM 814: 19.1.1859 Copy of ALS from HM, as 813.
HM 815: 21.1.1859 ALS to HM, as 813.
HM 816: 1.3.1859 As 815.
53 HM 817: 4.4.1859 As 815.
HM 818: 19.4.1859 As 815.
HM 819: 16.7.1864 ALS to HM. Articles for the Cornhill Magazine.
HM 820: 5.4.1865 ALS to HM. Complete Guide to the English Lakes.
HM 821: 21.4.1865 Copy of ALS from HM, as 820.
HM 822836: ALS’s from G F Smith, of the Daily News
HM 822: n d Daily News and the press generally; T Walker.
HM 823: 2.6.1857 William Weir.
HM 824: 17.6.1857 As 823.
HM 825: 7.9.1857 About articles.
HM 826: 9.9.1857 As 825.
HM 827: 19.6.1858 Plans for the Daily News.
HM 828: 21.6.1858 As 827.
HM 829: 20.7.1858 As 827.
HM 830: 24.9.1858 ALS from Thomas Walker of the Daily News, to HM. The Daily News.
HM 831: 11.10.1858 ALS to HM about her articles on endowed schools in Ireland.
HM 832: 24.11.1858 The Daily News.
54 HM 833: 2.2.1859 ALS from Thomas Walker. Daily News.
HM 834: 5.2.1863 Daily News.
HM 835: 29.12.1862 ALS from Goldwin Smith to HM, about an invitation; the news of the day.
HM 836: 1856 Short account by Smith of the history of the Daily News.
HM 837: 23.3. ALS from Julia Smith. Florence Nightingale.
HM 838: 15.4.1871 ALS from Thomas Valentine Smith. Comte’s Positive Philosophy.
HM 839: 19.4.1871 As 838.
HM 840: 4.12.18? ALS from Louisa Stone about some articles by HM in the Leader; the plight of the poor.
HM 841: 11.1861 ALS from W W Story. American Affairs; HM’s article in the Daily News.
HM 842: 24.8.1862 As 841.
HM 843850: Correspondence with Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
HM 843: 24.9.1855 ALS to HM about a passage in Pascal and a letter by Thomas Arnold; Stanley’s interpretation of it.
HM 844: 14.12.1863 ALS to HM about her article on Lord Elgin.
HM 845: 30.4.1877 ALS to HM on her life of Lord Elgin.
HM 846: 18.11.1875 ALS to HM. The Princes of Wales; Lady Elgin.
HM 847: 25.9.1855 Copy of ALS from HM, in reply to 843.
HM 848: 3.10.1855
55 ALS to HM, as 843.
HM 849: 5.10.1855 Copy of ALS from HM, as 843.
HM 850: 14.10.1855 ALS to HM as 843.
HM 851854: ALS’s from Lady Augusta Stanley
HM 851: 2.6.1862 Illness of Lady Elgin.
HM 852: 26.1.1867 HM’s nephew, Higginson; family news.
HM 853: 7.2.1868 Family news.
HM 854: 16.8.1869 HM’s Letter to the Deaf; family news.
HM 855866: ALS’s from Lady Henrietta Maria Stanley of Alderley
HM 855: 26.10.1868 Household Education; education of poor children; Lady Stanley’s special schools.
HM 856: 2.11.1868 T H Huxley; education; HM’s illness.
HM 857: 9.11.1868 Education.
HM 858: 5.7.1869 Death of her husband.
HM 859: 17.6.1870 Biographical Sketches; family news.
HM 860: 4.11.1870 Letters of her son, Lyulph.
HM 861: 15.11.1870 Lyulph Stanley.
HM 862: 11.8.1871 Her physiological studies; books on the subject of schools; vaccination.
HM 863: 13.5.1872 Harriet Grote.
56 HM 864: 5.1.1874 HM’s writings; deaths of contemporaries; Carlyle; Lady Stanley’s educational work; Girton College.
HM 865: 12.5.1873 Death of J S Mill; H Grote’s life of George Grote; Girton College.
HM 866: 31.7.1874 Death of Lady Amberley.
HM 867881: ALS’s from Emily Anne Smythe, Viscountess Strangford, née Beaufort
HM 867: 17.3.1862 Her honeymoon; Lord Strangford; Arthur P Stanley; Prince of Wales; James Finn, consul at Jerusalem and affairs there.
HM 868: 29.4.1862 Plans for a visit by Maria Martineau; the Finns and Jerusalem; family news.
HM 869: 27.8.1862 The Finns and Jerusalem; Prince of Wales.
HM 870: 28.8.1862 As 869.
HM 871: 8.9.1862 Finns and Jerusalem; A P Stanley.
HM 872: 26.12.1862 Finns and Jerusalem; Rosa Beaufort; E A Smythe’s book.
HM 873: 1864? The Finns and Jerusalem; E A Smythe’s book; family news.
HM 874: 8.4.1864 Lord Strangford; E A Smythe’s book.
HM 875: 24.1.1864? Family news; the Finns and Jerusalem; founding of a college in Beirut.
HM 876: 2.2.1869 Death of Lord Strangford. (Incomplete).
HM 877: 10.4.1869 As 876.
HM 878: 20.5.1862? From Rome. E A Smythe’s book; the Finns and Jerusalem.
57 HM 879: 24.6.1869? E A Smythe’s book and plans.
HM 880: 30.7.1869? As 879.
HM 881: 1869 As 876. (Incomplete).
HM 882: 14.10.18? ALS from N Sutton of Dublin about the Commission on the endowed schools of Ireland.
HM 883: 17.11.1866 ALS from John C Templer about his son George and his talent as an artist; the opinion of Sir Edwin Landseer and W P Frith.
HM 884: 8.11.1866 Copy of ALS from W P Frith to Templer about Landseer’s opinion.
HM 885: 1857 Cutting of a poem by R M M, England’s Summer.
HM 886: n d Copy of ALS from Lady Anne Ritchie, née Thackeray, to H G Atkinson about HM’s praise of Village on the Cliff.
HM 887: 25.12.1857 ALS from Thomas Perronet Thompson about his articles in the Keighley Reporter.
HM 888: 20.6.1876 ALS from Charles Wyville Thompson about a letter of T P Thompson.
HM 889: 2.9.1862 ALS from Joseph Townson about income tax. With HM’s reply, 3.9.1862.
HM 890899: Correspondence with Ticknor and Fields, Publishers
HM 890: 17.12.1860 ALS to HM. Article on Lady Byron.
HM 891: 4.3.1861 ALS to HM. Article on the Lake District; Autobiography.
HM 892: 19.3.1861 Copy of part of ALS from HM. Autobiography.
HM 893: 8.4.1861 ALS to HM, as 892.
58 HM 894: 28.4.1861 ALS from Thomas Martineau to HM. Autobiography. (Incomplete).
HM 895: 23.5.1861 Copy of part of ALS from HM, as 892.
HM 896: 25.5.1870 ALS to HM, as 892.
HM 897: 12.6.1870 ALS from Thomas Martineau to HM, as 892.
HM 898: 22.5.1875 ALS from Ticknor & Fields to M W Chapman, as 892.
HM 899: 2.6.1875 As 898.
HM 900903: ALS’s from Hugh Seymour Tremenheere
HM 900: 8.8.1844 Charles Knight’s plans to publish a series; his paper on schools on industry; strike in the North.
HM 901: 31.8.1844 Sunday observance; strike in the North; political economy; publishing news.
HM 902: 9.9.1844 Weekly Despatch.
HM 903: 15.9.1844 Opinions of ordinary people on important matters; suggestions for a book.
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HM 904923: Correspondence with Truebner & Co., Publishers. The letters are from Nicholas Truebner
HM 904: 21.1.1866 Copy of ALS from HM, about a book by Mrs Farrer.
HM 905: 1867 Account with HM for her translation of Comte’s Positive Philosophy, 1867.
HM 906: 1868 As 905, for the year 1868.
HM 907: 4.2.1870 ALS to HM. Comte’s Philosophy.
59 HM 908: 19.4.1871 As 907.
HM 909: 20.4.1871 Copy of ALS from HM, as 907.
HM 910: 22.4.1871 As 907.
HM 911: 12.5.1871 As 907.
HM 912: 15.5.1871 As 907.
HM 913: 17.5.1871 As 907.
HM 914: 1.6.1871 ALS to HM. AvezacLavigne’s adaptation of HM’s translation of Comte.
HM 915: 29.9.1874 As 907.
HM 916: 30.9.1874 Copy of ALS from HM, as 907.
HM 917: 1.10.1874 As 907.
HM 918: 9.10.1874 Copy of ALS from HM, as 907.
HM 919: 12.10.1874 As 907.
HM 920: 13.10.1874 Copy of ALS from HM, as 907.
HM 921: 14.10.1874 As 907.
HM 922: 16.10.1874 Copy of ALS from HM, as 907.
HM 923: 17.10.1874 As 907.
HM 924: 13.5.1871
60 ALS from T Usher about the Sir Walter Scott centenary.
HM 925: 18.5.1871 Copy of ALS from HM, in reply to 924.
HM 926931: ALS’s from Thomas Walker of the Daily News
HM 926: 28.9.1858 Arrangements for writing for the Daily News.
HM 927: 8.8.1859 Articles.
HM 928: 10.8.1859 As 927.
HM 929: 24.8.1859 As 927.
HM 930: 2.7.1862 As 927.
HM 931: 26.4.1866 HM’s resignation from the Daily News.
HM 932: 21.10.1845 LS from Walker, Fuller & Co. of Boston. Publishing matters.
HM 933: 27.3.1873 ALS from George C Warr. The National Association for the Promotion of Social Purity.
HM 934: 1.4.1873 As 933.
HM 935: 26.1.1859 ALS from C Webster of Kendal about a road in Ambleside.
HM 936: 31.3.1859 Copy of ALS from HM to C Webster, as 935.
HM 937969: ALS’s from William Weir of the Daily News. Written between 1854 and 1858, and mainly about politics and subjects for articles
HM 937: n d
HM 938: n d
HM 939: nd Charlotte Bronte; Lord Elgin.
61 HM 940: n d HM’s book on America.
HM 941: n d
HM 942: n d (Incomplete).
HM 943: n d
HM 944: n d
HM 945: n d
HM 946: n d
HM 947: n d
HM 948: n d
HM 949: n d
HM 950: 28.8.18?
HM 951: 12.1854 Sir James Brooke.
HM 952: 1.1.1856
HM 953: 15.1.1856 Florence Nightingale and Miss Salisbury.
HM 954: 5.2.1856
HM 955: 25.2.1856
HM 956: 2.3.1856
HM 957: 12.3.1856
HM 958: 18.3.1856
HM 959: 19.3.1856
HM 960: 12.5.1856
HM 961: 17.5.1856
HM 962: 28.7.1856
62 HM 963: 29.7.1856
HM 964: 6.8.1856
HM 965: 16.3.1857
HM 966: 30.3.1857
HM 967: 18.6.1857
HM 968: 19.6.1857
HM 969: 22.6.1857
HM 970: 16.2.1869 ALS from Lord Wentworth, about Lady Byron.
HM 971: 19.2.1869 As 970.
HM 972975: Correspondence with William Whellan & Co., Publishers
HM 972: 21.8.1856 ALS to HM about an article on the Lake District.
HM 973: 23.8.1856 Copy of ALS from HM, as 972.
HM 974: 11.11.1856 As 972.
HM 975: 13.5.1857 As 972.
HM 9761015: Correspondence with Henry Whitworth of Liverpool, Secretary of the National Association of Factory Occupiers, and afterwards Secretary of the Association to Obtain the Right Appropriation of the Liverpool Town Dues
HM 976: 1856 3 copies of ALS from R Lowe to Whitworth. Report on accidents in factories; bill in Parliament on the subject.
HM 977: n d ALS to HM, as 976.
HM 978: 10.4.1856 As 977.
HM 979: 3.7.1856
63 As 977 and about the Liverpool town dues.
HM 980982: 19.7.1856 ALS to HM (with 2 copies), as 976. Plans for a gift to HM.
HM 983: 20.7.1856 Copy of ALS from HM, replying to 980.
HM 984: 26.7.1856 Copy of ALS to HM. Liverpool town dues.
HM 985: 28.7.1856 ALS to HM. Liverpool town dues.
HM 986: 30.7.1856 Copy of ALS from Whitworth to Robert Lowe. Liverpool town dues.
HM 987: 6.8.1856 As 985.
HM 988: 13.8.1856 As 985.
HM 989: 23.9.1856 As 985.
HM 990: 27.9.1856 As 985.
HM 991: 10.1856 As 985.
HM 992: 18.10.1856 As 985.
HM 993: 8.11.1856 As 985.
HM 994: 17.11.1856 As 985.
HM 995: 25.11.1856 As 985.
HM 996: 2.12.1856 As 985.
HM 997: 10.12.1856 As 985.
64 HM 998: 11.12.1856 As 985.
HM 999: 15.12.1856 As 985.
HM 1000: 17.12.1856 As 985.
HM 1001: 18.12.1856 As 985.
HM 1002: 20.12.1856 As 985.
HM 1003: 21.12.1856 As 985.
HM 1004: 22.12.1856 As 985.
HM 1005: 23.12.1856 As 985.
HM 1006: 25.12.1856 As 985.
HM 1007: 26.12.1856 As 985.
HM 1008: 27.12.1856 Copy of ALS from HM, as 985.
HM 1009: 29.12.1856 As 985.
HM 1010: 8.1.1897 As 985.
HM 1011: 20.1.1857 As 985.
HM 1012: 31.1.1857 As 985.
HM 1013: 12.2.1857 As 985.
HM 1014: 23.2.1857 As 985.
65 HM 1015: 20.3.1857 As 985.
HM 10161024: ALS’s from Henry William Wilberforce
HM 1016: 28.9.1864 Slavery in America.
HM 1017: 3.10.1864 As 1016.
HM 1018: 10.10.1864 As 1016.
HM 1019: 15.10.1864 As 1016.
HM 1020: 5.1.1865 As 1016.
HM 1021: 21.1.1865 As 1016.
HM 1022: 30.1.1865 As 1016.
HM 1023: 19.4.1865 As 1016.
HM 1024: 26.4.1865 As 1016.
HM 10251029: Correspondence with H W Wills, of Household Words
HM 1025: 26.9.1855 Copy of part of ALS from HM. Reasons for refusing to write an article; the anti Catholicism of Household Words.
HM 1026: 28.9.1855 ALS to HM, replying to 1025.
HM 1027: 30.11.1855 Copy of ALS from HM. Charles Dickens on the factories.
HM 1028: 8.12.1855 ALS to HM, replying to 1027.
HM 1029: 9.12.1855 Copy of ALS from HM, as 1027.
66 HM 1030: 23.12.1850 ALS from L Witherley. Plans for a home for ladies; mesmerism.
HM 10311035: ALS’s from William Wood
HM 1031: 2.1.1856 Plan to establish a factory for female orphans, etc. at Pontefract.
HM 1032: 1856 Prospectus, as 1031.
HM 1033: 11.2.1856 As 1031.
HM 1034: 19.2.1856 As 1031.
HM 1035: 8.3.1856 As 1031.
Reel 10
PUBLISHING CORRESPONDENCE
HM 10361041: Correspondence with Addey & Co., Publishers
HM 1036: 25.4.1853 ALS to HM. Copyright of The Playfellow; Feats on the Fiord.
HM 1037: 29.4.1853 As 1036.
HM 1038: 30.4.1853 Copy of ALS from HM, as 1036. With ALS from Charles Knight to Addey & Co.
HM 1039: 2.5.1853 ALS to HM. The Playfellow.
HM 1040: 29.7.1853 As 1039.
HM 1041: 30.7.1856 As 1039.
HM 1042: 31.8.1836 ALS from Richard Bentley asking for the right to publish any of HM’s material on America.
HM 1043: 2.9.1836
67 Copy of ALS from HM, replying to 1042.
HM 1046: 22.3.1838 Bill from William Clowes & Sons for printing Addresses, with Prayers and Original Hymns.
HM 1047: n d Henry Colburn’s terms for printing an unspecified work.
HM 10481079: Correspondence with Charles Fox
HM 10481049: 16.12.1831 Two drafts of agreement for publishing Illustrations of Political Economy.
HM 1050: 30.8.1833 ALS to HM, as 1048.
HM 1051: 5.9.1833 As 1050.
HM 1052: 11.2.1834 Agreement with HM, as 1048.
HM 1053: 6.2.1838 ALS to HM. Publishing a new edition of Addresses, with Prayers.
HM 1054: 13.2.1843 ALS to HM. Traditions of Palestine.
HM 1055: 20.2.1843 As 1054.
HM 1056: 21.2.1843 As 1054.
HM 1057: 21.1.1845 ALS to HM. Illustrations of Political Economy.
HM 1058: 27.1.1845 As 1057.
HM 1059: n d ALS to HM about expenses.
HM 1060: 6.12.1869 Copy of part of ALS from George E Fox to HM. Illustrations of Political Economy; Traditions of Palestine; Addresses; Sticks and Strikes.
HM 1061: 1832 Account for publishing Illustrations of Political Economy.
68 HM 1062: 7.1832 As 1061.
HM 1063: 8.1832 As 1061.
HM 1064: 1.1833 As 1061.
HM 1065: 1.1833 As 1061.
HM 1066: 1833 As 1061.
HM 1067: 8.1833 As 1061.
HM 1068: 8.1833 As 1061.
HM 1069: 24.1.1832 As 1061.
HM 1070: 3.1832 As 1061.
HM 1071: 11.3.1834 As 1061.
HM 1072: 4.1834 As 1061.
HM 1073: 1832 Bill from W Clowes to Fox, as 1061.
HM 1074: 11.9.1832 As 1073.
HM 1075: 22.4.1834 As 1073.
HM 1076: 14.1.1832 As 1061.
HM 1077: 25.2.1832 As 1061.
HM 1078: 6.4.1832
69 As 1061.
HM 1079: n d As 1061.
HM 10801083: ALS’s from George Jacob Holyoke, of The Leader and The Reasoner
HM 1080: 19.10.1851 Comte and Positive Philosophy.
HM 1081: 7.11.1851 ALS from Edmund R Larken to Holyoake, as 1080.
HM 1082: 17.1.1852 As 1080. Higher education.
HM 1083: 6.9.1853 His finances.
HM 10841089: Accounts of Rowland Hunter with HM
HM 1084: 10.182411.1824 Devotional Exercises; Addresses.
HM 1085: 12.1824 As 1084.
HM 1086: 3.1829 As 1084.
HM 1087: 4.1830 As 1084.
HM 1088: 4.1831 As 1084.
HM 1089: 18312 As 1084.
HM 10901112: ALS’s from Charles Knight
HM 1090: 3.4.1839 Macbeth; French books on India; Deerbrook.
HM 1091: 1.9.1839 Notes on Shakespeare’s Italian plays.
HM 1092: 3.10.1839 Shakespeare’s Italian plays; milliners; Newcastle.
70 HM 1093: 26.2.1840 Finance; Grainger; Deerbrook.
HM 1094: 23.9.1840 His illness; business; Shakespeare; The Playfellow.
HM 1095: 30.9.1840 The Playfellow.
HM 1096: 1.3.1841 The Playfellow; Shakespeare; publishing news.
HM 1097: 24.3.1841 Account of Letters at Home.
HM 1098: 30.3.1841 The Playfellow; the Hour and the Man.
HM 1099: 19.6.1841 Peasant and the Prince.
HM 1100: 29.7.1841 His financial troubles; Playfellow; Feats on the Fiord.
HM 1101: 11.9.1841 Playfellow.
HM 1102: 1.10.1841 Playfellow; Feats on the Fiord.
HM 1103: 8.10.1841 Account for Feats on the Fiord.
HM 1104: 20.1.1842 Account for Crofton Boys.
HM 1105: 24.1.1842 As 1104.
HM 1106: 16.2.1843 Financial troubles.
HM 1107: 8.3.1843 ALS from Richard Martineau to HM about business with Knight.
HM 1108: 19.5.1843 Agreement over Playfellow.
HM 1109: 7.10.1844
71 HM’s recovery; mesmerism; business; Illustrations of Political Economy; Feats on the Fiord.
HM 1110: 30.1.1845 Business; Feats on the Fiord; Playfellow; Illustrations of Political Economy.
HM 1111: 19.7.1845 Playfellow.
HM 1112: 17.9.1846 Billow and the Rock.
HM 11131116: Edward Lombe Correspondence
HM 1113: 27.11.1851 ALS to HM from Lombe proposing to finance a translation of Comte’s Positive Philosophy.
HM 1114: 18511853 Account of money received by HM in respect of the translation.
HM 1115: n d Another version of 1114.
HM 1116: 22.7.1853 ALS from John Chapman to Richard Martineau, acknowledging receipt of some money from the Lombe fund.
HM 11171174: ALS’s from Edward Moxon
HM 1117: 7.1.1839 Deerbrook.
HM 1118: 17.2.1840 As 1117.
HM 1119: 5.10.1840 Hour and the Man.
HM 1120: 2.1.1841 As 1119.
HM 1121: 6.1.1841 As 1119.
HM 1122: 30.1.1841 As 1119.
HM 1123: 24.6.1841 Deerbrook; Hour and the Man.
72 HM 1124: 4.3.1842 As 1123.
HM 1125: 21.3.1842 As 1123.
HM 1126: 8.11.1842 As 1123.
HM 1127: 30.9.1843 Life in the Sick Room.
HM 1128: 4.11.1843 As 1127.
HM 1129: 5.1.1844 As 1127.
HM 1130: 26.2.1844 As 1127.
HM 1131: 20.11.1844 About various reprints.
HM 1132: 7.12.1844 As 1131.
HM 1133: 7.3.1845 Hour and the Man; Deerbrook.
HM 1134: 9.1845 Forest and Game Law Tales.
HM 1135: 26.9.1845 As 1134.
HM 1136: 6.10.1845 As 1134.
HM 1137: 21.10.1845 As 1134.
HM 1138: 4.12.1845 As 1134.
HM 1139: 19.12.1845 Life in the Sick Room.
HM 1140: 29.1.1846
73 Forest and Game Law Tales; John Bright.
HM 1141: 11.5.1846 Forest and Game Law Tales.
HM 1142: 6.1847 As 1141.
HM 1143: 1.3.1848 ALS from HM. John Murray’s refusal to publish Eastern Life.
HM 1144: 2.3.1848 Eastern Life.
HM 1145: 8.3.1848 As 1144.
HM 1146: 13.3.1848 As 1144.
HM 1147: 27.3.1848 As 1144.
HM 1148: 13.4.1848 As 1144.
HM 1149: 14.10.1848 Household Education.
HM 1150: 20.10.1848 As 1149
HM 1151: 25.11.1848 Eastern Life.
HM 1152: 1848 As 1151.
HM 1153: 1.2.1849 Forest and Game Law Tales.
HM 1154: 22.3.1849 Life in the Sick Room.
HM 1155: 1.7.1849 Inventory of copies of Eastern Life and Household Education.
HM 1156: 27.1.1850 As 1155.
74 HM 1157: 1.1.1850 As 1155.
HM 1158: 1.1.1851 Inventory of copies of Household Education.
HM 1159: 28.1.1852 Household Education.
HM 1160: 21.2.1852 As 1159. (Incomplete).
HM 1161: 26.2.1852 As 1159, and with inventory of copies.
HM 1162: 11.5.1853 Household Education; Life in the Sick Room; Eastern Life.
HM 1163: 1841 Accounts for Hour and the Man; Deerbrook.
HM 1164: 6.1840 Accounts for Deerbrook.
HM 1165: 31.12.1842 As 1164.
HM 1166: 6.1842 As 1164, and about Hour and the Man.
HM 1167: 2.1843 As 1166.
HM 1168: 1.1846 Accounts for Forest and Game Law Tales.
HM 1169: 31.12.1850 Accounts for Eastern Life.
HM 1170: 1.1852 Accounts for Household Education.
HM 1171: 27.1.1852 As 1170.
HM 1172: 25.2.1852 As 1170.
HM 1173: 26.2.1852 As 1170.
75 HM 1174: 29.5.1875 Agreement between HM and E Moxon & Co, over Eastern Life.
HM 11751181: ALS’s from Sir John Richard Robinson of the Daily News
HM 1175: 21.5.1875 The firm of Ward, Lock; Eastern Life.
HM 1176: 24.5.1875 As 1175.
HM 1177: 5.6.1875 As 1175.
HM 1178: 20.5.1875 ALS from Ward, Lock to Robinson, as 1175.
HM 1179: 25.5.1875 Copy of ALS from HM to Ward, Lock, as 1175.
HM 1180: 28.5.1875 ALS from Ward, Lock to HM, as 1175.
HM 1181: 1.6.1875 As 1180.
HM 11821191: ALS’s from John Murray about Eastern Life
HM 1182: 6.1847
HM 1183: 17.6.1847
HM 1184: 18.6.1847 Copy of ALS from HM.
HM 1185: 19.6.1847
HM 1186: 8.2.1848
HM 1187: 25.2.1848
HM 11881189: 27.2.1848 Copy of ALS from HM. (2 copies).
HM 1190: 29.2.1848
HM 1191: 3.3.1848 Copy of ALS from HM.
76 HM 11921194: ALS’s from William S Orr & Co.
HM 1192: 1.1.1852 History of the Peace.
HM 1193: 5.1.1852 As 1192.
HM 1194 Titlepage of part I of the History.
HM 1195: 6.1.1865 ALS from Edward Pyott of the Daily News about a book by Thomas Evans Bell on the Mysore case in India.
HM 1196: 1865 Rough MS notes on the book by Evans, by HM.
HM 11971203: ALS’s from William Sharpe
HM 1197: 6.2.1834 Publishing terms for Illustrations of Political Economy; Charles Fox’s accounts with HM.
HM 1198: 14.2.1834 As 1197.
HM 1199: 17.2.1834 As 1197.
HM 1200: 5.7.1834 As 1197.
HM 1201: 7.12.1837 As 1197.
HM 1202: 1.11.1838 About an annuity.
HM 1203: 3.4.1839 As 1197.
HM 12061210: ALS’s from George Smith, of Smith & Elder
HM 1206: 18.3.1853 Publishing children’s books; Deerbrook; Playfellow; Charlotte Bronte.
HM 1207: 21.3.1853 Playfellow; Deerbrook
77 HM 1208: 26.3.1853 As 1207.
HM 1209: 23.4.1853 Playfellow.
HM 1210: 5.5.1853 Playfellow; Addey & Co; Hour and the Man.
HM 1211: 13.7.1837 ALS from William Tait, publisher of Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine. Proposal to publish an abridgement of her book on America.
HM 1212: 10.1874 Notes by Truebner & Co, about the cost of a new edition of HM’s translation of Comte.
HM 12131218: ALS’s from John Weale, Publisher
HM 1213: 13.4.1849 Asking if HM will write some elementary history books.
HM 1214: 17.4.1849 As 1213.
HM 1215: 21.4.1849 As 1213.
HM 1216: 23.4.1849 ALS from Richard Martineau to HM, as 1213.
HM 1217: 23.4.1849 ALS from R Kinder to R Martineau about Weale.
HM 1218: 4.1849 A few rough notes by HM on the matter.
HM 12191222: Accounts etc. with Simon Wilkin, Bookseller at Norwich
HM 1219: 1823 Bill for books supplied to HM.
HM 1220: 18241826 Bill for printing Devotional Exercises.
HM 1221: 11.7.1827 Receipt, as 1220.
HM 1222: 1832 Accounts for Devotional Exercises.
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Miscellaneous Documents
HM 1223: 8.6.1858 Copy of a will, by Maria Martineau.
HM 1224: 7.9.1861 Note by HM about a loan, to E K Martineau.
HM 1225: 17.9.1863 Memorandum by HM on her sewingmachine.
HM 1226: n d ALS from Maria Martineau to HM. Factory girls; tightlacing of girls; cholera.
HM 1227: n d ALS from Ellen Martineau about medical attendance.
HM 1228: 19.7.1852? AL from HM to Ambleside council about public buildings; Mechanics Institute; her lectures.
HM 1229: 1869? Copy of ALS from HM to ? about errors in Biographical Sketches.
HM 1230: 1874 HM’s record of doctor’s visits.
HM 1231: 19.10.1844 ALS from Richard Martineau on a business matter.
HM 1232: 11.12.1848 AL from S Stansfield about annual settlings at Candlemas.
HM 1233: 7.1.1833 Notes from Archbishop Whately’s Life on HM’s Illustrations of Political Economy.
HM 1234: 15.5.1869 Copy of review from Spectator on Biographical Sketches.
HM 1235: 1825 Copy of letter to William Hyde Wollaston from Sir Francis Beaufort, about drowning.
HM 1236: 7.5.1854 ALS from Emma with thanks for a gift.
HM 1237: 11.10.1856 ALS from ? refusing an invitation.
79 HM 1238: 29.12.1863 Note accompanying a gift. From Ellen Martineau.
HM 1239: n d Note from ? with some advice on drinks.
HM 1240: 1857? Part of ALS from ? about British Rule in India.
HM 1241: n d MS notes by ? about manufacture of ribbons.
HM 1242: n d Note from ?, with thanks for a gift.
HM 1243: 30.10.1848 Printed circular about curing cholera.
HM 1244: 7.12.1849 ALS from ?. Account of husbandry on HM’s smallholding.
HM 12451260: Testimonial to HM, 1843
HM 12451246: 1843 Lists of subscribers.
HM 1247: 9.8.1843 Bill of a silver service from T Cox Savory.
HM 1248: 10.8.1843 ALS from Hensleigh Wedgwood, etc.
HM 1249: 14.8.1843 ALS from Coutts & Co about purchase of some shares.
HM 1250: 14.8.1843 ALS from Peter Martineau.
HM 1251: 8.1843 ALS from H Wedgwood.
HM 1252: 8.1843 As 1251.
HM 1253: 22.8.1843 As 1251.
HM 1254: 25.8.1843 Draft letter of thanks from HM.
80 HM 1255: 30.8.1843 As 1251.
HM 1256: 1.9.1843 As 1254.
HM 12571258: 1843 Statement of the amount subscribed.
HM 1259: 1.9.1843 Printed letter of thanks from HM.
HM 1260: 26.12.1843 ALS from Northumberland & Durham District Bank.
HM 1261: 18261831 Cash book of John and Joseph Martineau.
HM 12621263: 1824, 1826 Rough accounts, as above.
HM 1264: 18281830 Rough accounts by HM.
HM 1265: 22.10.1838 Receipt from Coutts & Co.
HM 1266: 1852 Notes on soap manufacture.
HM 1267: 1852 A list of men’s wages.
HM 1268: 14.10.1862 Bill for goods bought from James Allen of Kendal.
HM 1269: 1863 HM’s income and expenditure.
HM 1270: 1864 As 1269.
HM 1271: 1865 As 1269.
HM 1272: 1868 As 1269.
HM 1273: 1869
81 As 1269.
HM 1274: 1868? Calculation of HM’s assets.
HM 1275: 1870 Comparison on HM’s income for 1869 and 1870.
HM 1276: 1876 As 1269.
HM 1277: 1852? Notes on silk and cotton manufacture.
HM 1278: n d Calculation of HM’s income from periodicals.
HM 12791301: Material relating to the Windermere Benefit Building Society
HM 1279: 1849 Printed rules and regulations.
HM 1280: 1848 Prospectus.
HM 1281: 13.11.1849 ALS from John Crosfield about purchase of land in Ambleside.
HM 1282: 20.11.1849 As 1281.
HM 1283: 18511855 Accounts for house, etc.
HM 1284: 3.1856 Purchase of land.
HM 1285: 20.11.1851 Mortgage document.
HM 1286: 20.11.1851 Fees due on mortgage.
HM 1287: 10.11.1852 Receipt signed by H G Atkinson.
HM 1288: 18521856 H G Atkinson’s account with the society.
HM 1289: 5.2.1856
82 ALS from William Barton.
HM 1290: 6.2.1856 Copy of ALS from HM in reply to 1289.
HM 1291: 12.2.1856 As 1289.
HM 1292: 16.2.1856 ALS from George Holt of Liverpool.
HM 1293: 20.2.1856 As 1289.
HM 1294: 25.3.1856 As 1289.
HM 1295: 31.3.1856 Receipt from the Society.
HM 1296: 31.3.1856 HM’s final settlement of the mortgage.
HM 1297: 2.4.1856 As 1289.
HM 1298: 5.4.1856 Receipt from James Holme.
HM 1299: 5.4.1856 ALS from James Holme.
HM 1300: 11.4.1856 Receipt from Elizabeth Jesser Reid.
HM 1301: 16.4.1856 As 1289.
HM 13021318: Correspondence etc relating to HM’s property at Ambleside
HM 1302: 1845 Plan for her house, the Knoll.
HM 1303: 7.9.1848 ALS from Edwin Chadwick about drainage.
HM 1304: n d Plan for agricultural cottages.
HM 1305: 6.5.1851
83 Legal document about a tenancy.
HM 1306: 7.6.1851 Agreement between tenants.
HM 1307: 12.12.1851 Rent receipt.
HM 1308: 12.1851 Bill for building works.
HM 1309: 16.12.1851 Specification for building two cottages.
HM 1310: 17.2.1852 Bill for plumber’s work, as above.
HM 1311: 1853 Income tax certificate.
HM 1312: 21.5.1853 Agreement for letting a cottage.
HM 13131314: 18541855 Certificates of fire insurance.
HM 1315: 20.2.1855 Rates receipt.
HM 1316: 1855 Payments to the rector of Grasmere.
HM 1317: n d Printed advertisement for water closets by J C Stokes of Birmingham.
HM 1318: n d Another version of 1317.
HM 13191337: Material concerning strikes
HM 1319: 12.8.1859 ALS from Charles Bray. The Ribbon Weavers’ Protection Association; Strikes; silk trade; trades unions.
HM 1320: 17.8.1859 As 1319.
HM 1321: 7.8.1859 ALS from R F Martineau. Trades unions and Birmingham.
84 HM 1322: 9.8.1859 As 1321.
HM 1323: 15.8.1859 As 1321.
HM 1324: 23.8.1859 As 1321.
HM 1325: 14.8.1859 As 1321.
HM 1326: 25.3.1859 As 1321.
HM 1327: 6.8.1859 ALS from Susan Martineau. Trades unions, etc.
HM 1328: 22.8.1859 ALS from George Lloyd to R F Martineau. Trades unions, etc.
HM 1329: 1859 Pamphlet. John Plummer: Strikes.
HM 1330: 1859 Pamphlet. John Plummer: Freedom of Labour.
HM 1331: 7.1859 Monthly report of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers. Printed.
HM 1332: 1859 Balance sheet of the Silk Weavers’ Society, August to November. Printed.
HM 1333: 29.11.1858 Printed address to the members of the Flint Glass Makers’ Friendly Society.
HM 1334: 22.10.1859 Cutting from the Daily Post. “The Edinburgh Review and the Glass Makers”.
HM 1335: 16.11.1858 Midland Association of Flint Glass Manufacturers. Address to the Flint Glass Trade. Printed.
HM 1336: 6.1858 Extracts from the rules of the Flint Glass Makers’ Friendly Society.
HM 1337: 18491855 MS extracts from the Factory Inspectors reports.
HM 13381386: Miscellaneous Printed Items
85 HM 13381357: 1869 Presscuttings about Biographical Sketches.
HM 1358: n d Sketches from Life: XII. The stock farmer.
HM 1359: n d Ireland. (From the Daily News). Cutting.
HM 1360: n d Board of National Education. Cutting.
HM 1361: 19.8.1875 Current literature. (From the Daily News). Cutting.
HM 1362: n d Ireland. Cutting.
HM 1363: 16.12.1863 The Church Education Society. Cutting.
HM 1364: 5.1.1864 As 1363.
HM 1365: 28.5.1868 Foundling Hospital of the Soeurs Grises. Cutting.
HM 1366: n d Proposal for a school at Windermere. Pamphlet.
HM 1367: 1850 The Ladies Club Mansion. Suggestions for improving the condition… of ladies of the middle class. Pamphlet.
HM 13681369: 1871 2 printed items on the medical education of women.
HM 1370: 1851 Prospectus for the Ladies College, Bedford Square.
HM 1371: 1851 Francis Robert Bertolacci: A voice for all subjects; or, A scheme for… expanding the minds of the working class. Pamphlet.
HM 1372: n d Robert Burford: Description of a view of Nimroud. Pamphlet.
HM 1373: 1851 The census of Coventry.
86 HM 1374: 15.7.1868 J S Mill, etc: To the members of the Jamaica Committee.
HM 1375: 8.1.1869 Sir James A Gordon.
HM 13761377: 26.1.1852 Invitation to an exhibition of paintings of the Lakes by J B Pyne. With a leaflet.
HM 1378: 23.5.1872 Summons. Sophia Louisa JexBlake and others against Edinburgh University, to obtain entrance, etc.
HM 1379: n d Statement addressed to the proprietors of University College, London.
HM 1380: 1851 Exhibition of sketches and drawings by English artists.
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HM 1381: n d Prices of dyeing fine silk, by the firm of Leavsley & Hands, Coventry.
HM 1382: 1847 George R Gliddon: Ancient Egypt. Pamphlet.
HM 13831386 4 minor items.
Manuscripts by HM
HM 13871390: History of the Forty Years Peace
HM 1387: n d MS directions to the printer.
HM 1388: 27.11.1863 Preface to the American edition.
HM 1389: 1863 Last Years of the Peace.
HM 1390: n d Rough chart of dates and events.
HM 1391: 1864 Life in the Criminal Class.
87 HM 1392: 1860 Admiral Napier.
HM 1393: 12.1873 As much as I can remember of the story of young Mr Langtree.
HM 13941395: 4.6.1875 Preface to the new edition of Eastern Life.
HM 1396: n d Father d’Estelan’s Christmas Morning.
HM 1397: n d Preface to the History of the Thirty Years Peace.
HM 1398: 5.1854 Lord John Russell.
HM 1399: n d The Present Portion of the Great Powers.
HM 1400: n d Sketches from Life: The stock farmer. Concluding part.
HM 1401: 2.1870 Preface to the third edition of Traditions of Palestine.
HM 1402: 1870 Two true stories about clairvoyance.
HM 1403: 3.2.1853 Review of Villette, by C Bronte.
HM 1404: 1865 The Year 1865.
HM 14051417: Miscellaneous Manuscript Notes
HM 1405: n d Dallaway, basketmaker in Birmingham.
HM 1406: n d Political views.
HM 1407: n d On medical matters, sanitation, etc.
HM 1408: n d A list of books.
88 HM 1409: n d Irish education.
HM 1410: n d Dalhousie.
HM 1411: 4.11.1875 Copy of item from The Nation about the Prince of Wales.
HM 1412: n d Atkyn.
HM 1413: n d Epitaph from a church in Highercall, Salop.
HM 1414: n d Notes for a speech about teaching adults.
HM 1415: n d Notes on European states.
HM 1416: 1863? Corrections for an unspecified work.
HM 1417: 1857? List of events, 18451857.
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HM 14181423: Material added in 1981 by the Misses Martineau in memory of Professor C E Martineau
HM 1418: 18551856 Autograph MS of HM’s Autobiography. Volume I, pages 1450.
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HM 1418: 18551856 Autograph MS of HM’s Autobiography. Volume I, pages 451505. Volume II, pages 1201.
HM 1418 A : 5.3.1856 Receipt from printing cost of the Autobiography.
HM 1419 Autograph MS of Book VI of the “History of England during the Thirty Years Peace, 18161846” pages 1149.
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89 HM 1419 Autograph MS of Book VI of the “History of England during the Thirty Years Peace, 18161846” pages 150418.
HM 1420 Autograph MS of “A Tale of the Tyne.”
HM 1421: 1.3.1834 Autograph MS of “Poor Laws and Paupers, Illustrated, no II: The Town.” With a blue paper wrapper.
HM 1422 Autograph MS of “Poor Laws and Paupers, Illustrated, no I: The Parish.” Pages 168.
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HM 1422 Autograph MS of “Poor Laws and Paupers, Illustrated, no I: The Parish.” Pages 69 207.
HM 1423 Autograph MS of “Poor Laws and Paupers, Illustrated, no IV. The Lands End.”
Harriet Martineau Letters Additional No’s 1102
1: n d ALS from Harriet Martineau to the Rev Robert Perceval Graves referring to the Liggins controversy.
2: n d As 1, sending him her articles in Once a Week and The Daily News on the subject of the Negroes.
3: n d As 1, discussing an important Manifesto she wrote for the Daily News.
4: n d As 1, thanking him for some criticism and mentioning a nervous tic.
5: n d As 1, thanking him for The National and commenting on a book by J S Mill.
6: n d ALS to Graves defending the conduct of a housemaid called Jane.
7: 9.1.18? ALS from Maria Martineau to the Rev Robert Perceval Graves, sending him two copies of a pamphlet.
8: 30.11.1848?
90 ALS from HM to Robert Perceval Graves discussing local building societies.
9: 15.12.1848? As 8, sending him a prospectus about building societies.
10: 1848? As 8, with further information about building societies.
11: 10.1.1853? As 8, asking what book he would like to borrow and regretting she was out when he called.
12: 11.1.1853 Copy of ALS from Graves to HM saying that it was not he who called at her house.
13: 12.1.1853? ALS from HM to Graves, referring to his supposed visit, discussing her faith and declaring that friendships should be independent of differences in belief.
14: 1854 Autograph note from HM to Graves, listing significant events in 1854.
15: 2.11.1857 ALS from HM to Graves, sending him some books.
16: 1858? As 15, referring to Lord Brougham and the antislavery campaign.
17: 20.11.1858? As 15, about Lord Brougham.
18: 21.11.1858 Handwritten copy of HM’s letter to Lord Brougham, discussing the antislavery campaign in America and England.
19: 24.11.1858? ALS from Maria Martineau to Graves, referring to Lord Brougham’s hoax.
20: 28.11.1858? ALS from HM to Graves, about Lord Brougham.
21: 22.2.1859 As 20, referring to an obituary for Sir W Napier.
22: 2.5.1859 As 20, warning him that one of her former servants, Tulcher, who has been employed by Dr Davy is blind in one eye.
23: 20.5.1859 As 20, criticising a book by J S Mill and referring to Tulcher.
91 24: 26.5.1859 As 20, referring to the ColeridgePooley affair and commenting on the characteristics of rural labourers in the Eastern counties.
25: 8.9.1864 As 20, about Lord Carlisle’s illness.
26: 9.12.1864 ALS from Jane Martineau to Graves describing the death by drowning of a small boy.
27: 9.12.1864 ALS from HM to Graves, thanking him for his obituary of Lord Carlisle.
28: 26.4.1866 Copy of a letter from T Walker, Editor of the Daily News, to HM, regretting that her connection with the paper is now at an end.
29: 4.7.1866 ALS from HM to Graves, describing her declining health and the illness of Miss Napier.
30: 27.1.1867 As 29, thanking him for a sermon and commenting on Miss Napier’s servant problems.
31: n d ALS from HM to Mrs Murray, regretting that she cannot join her party and promising to send the statement of the Copyright case to the Lord Advocate.
32: 27.3.1890 ALS from James Martineau to Mrs Hollins, thanking her for a donation.
33: c.1849 ALS from HM to ?, referring to Charlotte Bronte and refusing permission to print facts she had supplied about labourers and their wages.
34: 6.5.1851 ALS from HM to ?, expressing thanks for a gift of biscuits, with a blank envelope and a sheet of engraved notepaper, signed by HM.
35: 6.12.1871 ALS from HM to Lord Ripon, thanking him for a basket of game.
36: 26.12.1873 ALS from HM to ?, providing a reference for a maid, Ellen Foster.
37: 31.7.1845? ALS from HM to ?, referring to some property she is buying.
92 38: 29.10.18? ALS from HM to Mr Grier, referring to a troublesome servant.
39: 12.10.1854 ALS from James Martineau to the Rev F Baker, referring to a testimonial for Rochdale Chapel and the widows’ Pension Fund.
40: 27.12.1871 ALS from James Martineau to A C Swinton, acknowledging receipt of a volume of lectures by E Denys.
41: 21.5.1843 ALS from HM to Mme Colmache, Paris, about paying a copyist in Paris; her Hour and the man; illness.
42: 1.12.18? ALS from HM to ?, asking for a subscription to the League to be paid.
43: 7.6.1855 ALS from HM to Mr Blakely of Norwich, with thanks for a gift of perfume and a shawl.
44: 16.9.1862 ALS from Harriet Martineau to Mr Bartholomew, with condolences over the death of someone unspecified and with news of others who have died. Tells of her own infirmities and of “Charles” who has gone to North Carolina to help train former slaves.
45: 25.11.1858 AL in third person from HM to ?, with news of her health and of Mr R Martineau.
46: 11.3.1869 ALS from Helen Martineau (cousin of Harriet) to Mrs Colman of Norwich, with thanks for a gift of flowers and with remarks on weather etc.
47: 1838? ALS from HM to Mr Ward, referring to Captain Machonochie and Sir John Franklin.
48: 27.10.1860 ALS from HM to Mrs E Lathbone about Lady Noel Byron and HM’s other writing plans.
49: 13.11.1870 ALS from James Martineau to Mr Williams about his present publishing plans.
50: 27.1.1885 As 49, about presentation copies of Martineau’s “Types of Ethical Theory.”
51: 23.10.18? ALS from HM to Edward Moxon, referring to a forthcoming book.
93 52: 7.2.18? ALS from HM to Mrs Hill, agreeing to subscribe to the Central Society.
53: n d ALS to ?, about arrangements for a visit.
54: 10.6.1840 ALS from James Martineau to ?, thanking him for a circular. (photocopy).
55: 9.11.1850 ALS from James Martineau to ?, about poor law reform. (photocopy).
56: 17.11.1883 ALS from James Martineau to R N Philips, thanking him for a gift of game. (photocopy).
57: 9.7.1860? ALS to William James Linton, inviting him and Mrs Watson and Mrs Linton to tea.
58: 12.3.1865 ALS to Mary Carpenter, saying she did not write an article in The Daily News on the prisons bill.
59: 11.6.1845? ALS to Miss Carpenter, concerning Wordsworth’s troubles with tourists and the fees for board and lodgings in the Lakes.
60: 29.1.1862? ALS to Hilary Smith. About her lectures.
61: 12.2.1862 As 60. About America.
62: 8.10.1867 ALS to Julia Smith. On domestic and financial matters.
63: 18.11.1859 ALS from James Martineau to Mrs Bonham Carter. About Day and Sunday Schools.
64: 25.7.18? ALS from HM to Mr Aspland about her revision of a manuscript. (photocopy).
65: 4.11.1853? ALS from HM to Sarah Martineau. About Nice.
66: 3.6.1857 As 65. About her husband George’s death.
67: 20.12.1857
94 As 65. Refers to David Livingstone.
68: 18.1.1858? As 65. Refers to her volume in India.
69: 28.3.1866 As 65. Thanks her for the champagne.
70: 26.11.1866 As 65. About her health.
71: 29.1.1867 As 65. A letter of condolence on the death of Mr Allen.
72: 28.4.1867 As 65. About financial loses and illness.
73: 2.5.1867 As 65. Thanks her for a cheque.
74: 28.8.1867 As 65. About her health and financial worries.
75: 20.10.1867 As 65. About friends and relations.
76: 16.12.1867 As 65. Thanks her for a cheque and champagne; she has bought a cow with her previous £25.
77: 6.2.1868 As 65. Her financial worries are over.
78: 25.2.1868 As 65. Relief on financial matters.
79: 12.6.1868 As 65. About a visit from Edward and Jenny, who have visited all the Lakes.
80: 1.3.1869 As 65. About success with some of her books.
81: 4.3.1869 As 65. Asks whether she will have Susan to stay with her.
82: 20.4.1869 As 65. Jenny has a plan for giving governesses a holiday in the country.
83: 22.5.1869 As 65. Comments on public affairs.
95 84: 28.5.1869 Jane Martineau to Sarah Martineau. Thanking her for a cheque and giving an account of HM’s health.
85: 25.11.1869 HM to Mary Martineau. She and Florence Nightingale have given their names to Mrs Butler’s Committee.
86: 10.8.1870 As 85. Asks whether she can come to her during Jenny’s absence.
87: 9.11.1870 As 85. About the engagement of Lord Lorne to one of Queen Victoria’s daughters.
88: 18.12.1870 As 85. About her difficulties in getting champagne, owing to the war.
89: 29.3.1871 As 85. About the cause championed by Mrs Butler.
90: 26.4.1871 As 85. About Bret Harte.
91: 1870? Printed address to the Women of Colchester, opposing the election of Sir Henry Storks as MP. Issued by Harriet Martineau, Ursula Bright and Josephine Butler.
92: 9.11.1830 ALS from HM to her publishers, acknowledging payment for the MS of ‘Five Years of Youth.’
93: 8.7.1846? ALS from HM to Mr Justice Story of Cambridge, Massachusetts. About America. (photocopy).
94: 22.8.1843 ALS from HM to “My dear friend”. About the actor, Macready. (photocopy).
95: 6.11.1857? ALS from HM to Robert Perceval Graves, accepting an invitation for Maria to dinner and referring to the dispute with Patrick Bronte and Arthur Nicholls. (photocopy).
96: 16.11.1857? As 95. About the Bronte affair. (photocopy).
97: 23.11.1857? As 95. (photocopy).
98: 27.11.1857?
96 As 95. (photocopy).
99: n d ALS starting “My dear Madam”, rejecting an invitation on grounds of illness.
100: n d ALS to Mr Crosfield, about an annuity.
101: n d ALS to the Rev R A Armstrong. Apologises for not answering his last letter and complains about the fatigues of correspondence. Discusses a list of books for fund raising compiled by the Lambtons, Marshalls and Lord Murray.
102: n d ALS to Mrs Horner. Thanks her for the trouble she has taken to find a courier for her party. She would very much like to become better acquainted with Mrs Horner’s daughters.
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Additional Material consisting of MS items relating to Harriet and Maria Martineau
I MSS 1. Harriet Martineau: Briery Creek: a tale (Illustrations of Political Economy no. XXII). Autograph MS. 2. Harriet Martineau: Modern Domestic Service (? copy). 3. Harriet Martineau: Salem Witchcraft (Article). MS and Proof. (1868). 4. Harriet Martineau: What can Women Do? (Article). MS. 5. Harriet Martineau: Out for a Holiday. (Article). MS.
II Letters. From the Martineau Family i. 117: From Harriet Martineau to Mrs Martineau and Maria Martineau, 14.6.1860 5.6.1861. 1819: Harriet Martineau to Thomas Martineau, 25.10.186720.3.1872. 2022: Copies of extracts of a letter from Harriet Martineau to Florence Nightingale, 9.1.1859, and copy of AL (3 rd person) to Mrs Boden, 8.1.1859. ii. 1.7: From Maria Martineau to Jane S Martineau, 19.9.18514.4.1852. iii. 1: From Ellen (‘Aunt Ellen’) to Maria Martineau, 3.8. 2: From Maria Martineau to Thomas Martineau, 29.11.1856? 38: From Thomas Martineau to Maria Martineau, 15.11.185621.5.1860. 9: From ?Jane Martineau to Maria Martineau, n.d. iv. From Other Correspondence (AZ).
97 1/13: Matthew Arnold to Maria Martineau, 15.2.185616.4.1860. 2/117: H G Atkinson to Maria Martineau. 3: J Brooke to Maria Martineau, 6.5.1858. 4: R Chambers to Maria Martineau, 12.3.1856. 5/13: M W Chapman to Maria Martineau, 9.6.186?6.12.186? 6/12: J Chapman to Maria Martineau, 17.12.18554.3.1856? 7: Anne Clough to Maria Martineau, n d. 8: Mary, Lady Elgin to Maria Martineau, 9.6.1863. 9/12: George L Fox to Thomas Martineau, 13.3.187223.3.1872. 10/14: W L Garrison to Maria Martineau, 12.6.18671.8.1867. 11: Elizabeth Gaskell to Maria Martineau, n d. 12/12: Caroline Jones to Maria Martineau, 15.7.185524.8.1855. 13: R M Malins to Maria Martineau, 19.2. 14: F N to ?Maria Martineau, 23.12.1863. 15: E Napier to Maria Martineau, 25.10.1863. 16/12: Richard Napier to Maria Martineau, 5.11.186330.1.1863(4). 17/15: E J Reid to Maria Martineau, n d. 18/12: Emma Sargent to Maria Martineau, 23.2.18?9.6.18? 19: Charles Scriven (?) to Maria Martineau, 28.10.1857. 20: Julia Smith to Maria Martineau, 24.12. 21: Harriet Beecher Stowe to Harriet Martineau, 10.1856. 22/12: Helen Taylor to Maria Martineau, 24.3.185620.8.1856. 23/12: J Aspinall Turner to Maria Martineau, 28.11.18559.1.1856. 24: R D Webb to Maria Martineau, 2.8.1859. 25/13: W Weir to Harriet Martineau and Maria Martineau, 12.1.18553.7.1856. 26: Susan Winkworth to Maria Martineau, “Monday morning”, n d.
III Other Documents
1. Deed of Power of Attorney: Harriet Martineau to Jane Smith Martineau, 30.10.1867. 2. Memorandum of loan of £500 by Harriet Martineau to John Chapman, 8.2.1855. 3. Recipe for a depilatory (Harriet Martineau’s hand). 4. MS copy of ‘Latrobe’s Answer about Liberia’ by Harriet Martineau (18581859). 5. Photograph of painting of Harriet Martineau (1836, American). 6. Small piece of hair from Egyptian mummy and its cerecloth, cut for Harriet Martineau 1847 (in envelope). 7. Reprint of Harriet Martineau: A History of the American Compromises (articles for the Daily News). London, J Chapman, 1856, with exchange of letter between Sir Wilfred Martineau and Professor R F Webb. 8. MS List of Harriet Martineau’s publications up to 1855 (by John Chapman?). 9. Cutting concerning Harriet Martineau from The Observer, 21.12.1834. 10. Account of sales of Comte’s Philosophy (Truebner) 1865.
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