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Handlist of the Herbert Spencer papers (MS.791) 

deposited in the University of London Library 

by the Athenaeum 

Compiled by T.D.Rogers 

LONDON 

192

Contents 

I 

Introduction 

1. Provenance of papers p.iii 

2. Description of papers 

3· .Arrangement of handlist p.v 

4. - Short list of books and 

short titles 

J 

p:p .. iii-iv 

p.vi 

II Handlist 

N.B. 

This handlist, and the index, are based on 

the list and index of the correspondence 

made in 1970 by Miss rtosemary Griffin, 

formerly of the Athenaeum Library. 

1 .. Letters to W .. G.Spencer p.l 

2. Letters to Thomas Spencer :p.l 

3- Letter to Harriet Spencer p.l 

4. Letters and notes written by 

Herbert Spencer 

pp.2-3 

5- Letters to !ierbert Spencer :pp.3-23 

(Undated letters to HS, _ p .. 23) 

6. Letters to Spencer's executors 

and secretary p.24 

7. Letters to David Duncan p.25 

8. Unidentified material p.25 

9 - Portraits, drawings., and 

photographs 

10. Biogra~hical reminiscences of 

Herbert Spencer 

pp.25-27 

pp.28-30 

- l-1. Newspaper cuttings p. 30 

12. Herbert Spencer Trustees 

Minute Book p.30 

13. List of other Spencer material 

in the University of London 

Library p.31 

III Index of names in section II 

pp.32-4-2 

NCTE. 

Publication of cny part of the Spencer DaDe~s 

should contain acknowledge~ents 

both to the 

Athenaeum and to the University of London Library

I. Introduction 

1. Provenance 

The Herbert Spencer papers were de~osited on 

permanent loan in the University of London Library in 

1971, by the Athenaeum, Pall Mall, London. (1) 

The papers had been left at the Athenaeum by 

Spencer's Trustees in 1936, when the Spencer Trust was 

wound up. (2) Presumably the Trustees had held the 

papers either since Spencer's death in 1903, or since 

1908, after David Duncan ~ad finished using them for his 

( ]biography of Spencer publ t ~~ed in that year. 

\ ~2 C-~ 1) \,- ~ .#\.. £:..~\. v ./ ) G< . , ~ '~ ) 

Publication of any part of the Spencer papers should 

contain acknowledgements both to the Athenaeum and to the 

University of London Library. 

2. Description of papers 

The material has been divided into four main sections: 

c·orrespondence (the largest section); portraits, 

drawings, and photographs; 'reminiscences' of Herbert 

Spencer by various persons; newspaper cuttings. 

A group (MS-791/3-10) of eight letters, 1843-9, is 

addressed to the Reve~end Thomas Spencer !3) from 

literary and political figures of the period ~ George 

Crabbe (son of the poet), Cobden, Bright, ·w.s.Landor, and 

Sir Robert Feel (a short note only). They discuss 

political and ecclesiastical affairs. 

There are two letters of 1847 from Thomas Spencer to 

W.G.Spencer (Herbert Spencer's father); o~e letter of 

1864 fro·m W. G. Spencer to his wife Harriet. Each of the 

_three letters (MB.791/1-2, and /12) mentions lierbert 

Spencer. 

There is a small group of items (below, pp.2-3), 

mostly letters, written by Spencer, which appears to 

have been preserved for the information they ccntaio 

about Spencer's personality and habits. The abstracts 

of about 50 letters from Spencer to F.E.Lott 

(1) Spencer was elected a member of the Athenaeum 

in 1868 - see MS.791/74. 

(2) Letter from Sir Alan Burns, Chairman of the 

(Athenaeum) Library Committee, 21 Dec.1970. 

·(3) 1796-1853; nerbert Spencer's uncle.

iv 

(MS-791/355/1) also contain a number of personal details, 

and mention Spencer's friends and acquaintances. 

Spencer's intellectual interests are indicated only 

briefly in these groups of letters. 

The following letters to Spencer contain notes of 

various lengths, probably all in Spencer's hand: 

MS-791/41, ~9, 60, 61, 64, 68, 69, 77, 84, 

93, 103, 114, 128, 14-7, 177, 212, 

215, 216, 224, 275, 292, 334. 

The rest of the correspondence contains letters to 

Spencer from many of his contemporaries. (1) A few 

letters are merely acknowledgements of the receipt of 

some book· or pamphlet sent by Spencer. A number of the 

letters are personal, inquiring about Spencer's health~ 

inviting him to dinner, or to tea and 'lobster sallad Lsic] 

••• before you go'. (2) The rest o.f the letters, while 

they may include acknowled~ement of books or pamphlets, 

and some personal details, also contain discussion of 

Spencer's and the correspondents' ideas and work, with 

criticism and comment on contemporary science, philosophy, 

and sometimes . politics. The let.ters from abroad often 

discuss the influence· of Spencer's ideas, either in general 

on the thought of each writer's country, or on the writer's 

own mind. 

Sixteen letters (3) of 1903 to 1904, written after 

Spencer's death, are addressed to Spencer's executors, or 

to his secretary, and include some comments on Spencer's 

life. 

The portraits, drawings, and photographs include 

sketches and portraits by and ·of Herbert Spencer. 

The_ 'reminiscences' of Spencer by some of his friends 

and assistants appear to have been consulted by Duncan 

for his biography, but not all of them were quoted by him. 

Most of this group of material appears to be unpublished. 

The group includes two iteills by Spencer - a short account 

of Thomas Carlyle, and a fragment of intellectual 

autobiography. (4) 

The contents of the six volumes of newspaper cuttings 

are ~escribed below, p.30. 

(1) Some indication of their interest is that nearly 

all Spencer's correspondents are in DNB. 

(2) Leigh Hunt, 1 June [1852], MS-791/30. 

(3) MS.791/335-50. See p.2~. 

(4) MS-791/355/4, and /6.

V 

3. Arrangement of the handlist 

The numbers in the left-hand margin, prefixed by 

'MS.791/', are the item numbers. 

The list of contents on page ~~ gives the basic 

arrangement of the handlist. Within each section 

(except sections 9 and 10) the arrangement is 

chronological, with undated letters at the end of 

section 5. Addresses have been expanded or contracted 

without indication. If no town is given after the 

street name, the place of writing is London. 

Conjectural or doubtful information is given within 

square brackets. · 

Some references have been made to printed books 

containing extracts or quotations from letters, but 

such references are by no means exhaustive. 

(It would appear, from various numbers on the 

letters, that they have previously been filed in a 

different order or orders - but no attempt has been 

made to restore any original sequence.) 

T.D.Rogers 

August 1971

vi 

• 

4. List of books and short titles. 

(Place of publication London.) 

Darwin (Francis) 

Dawson (W.R.) 

·The life and letters of Charles 

Darwin. Ed.Francis narwin. 3 vols. 

1887 .. 

Cited as Darwin. 

A descriptive 

Contains a number of letters from 

Spencer. 

Duncan (David) 

The life and letters of Herbert 

Spencer. 1908 (reissued 1911). 

Based in part on ~.791. 

Cited as Duncan. 

Hu.xley (Leonard) 

Pe e 1 - ( J . D • Y • ) 

Ru.mney (J.) 

Spencer (Herbert) 

Life and letters of Thomas Henry 

Huxle~. 2 vols. 1900. 

Cited as Huxley. 

Herbert Spencer. 

sociol-ogist. 

The evolution of a 

Using as main manuscript sources: 

( 1) 

(2) 

(3) 

Huxley papers, Imperial College, 

London. 

Passfield papers,·London School 

of Economics. 

Papers formerly at the Athenaeum 

(now University of London 

Library MS. 791). 

Cited as Peel. 

Herbert Spencer's sociology. 

Published fer Herbert Spencer•s 

Trustees, 1934. 

Contains bibliography of Spencer•s 

works. The 'introduction by the 

Trustees', pp.vii-xvi, contains an 

acc~unt of the Herbert Spencer Trust 

An Autobiography. 2 vols. 1904 

(republished 1911). 

Cited as Autobiography.

1 

II. 

Handlist 

MS.791/ 

1 

2 

1. Letters to 

Herbert 

15 Apr.l847 

20 Apr.l84-7 

encer 

T.Spencer, Hinton, Bath, [Somerset]. 

T~Spencer, Hinton, Bath. To 

W.G.Spencer, 8 Wilmot St., Derby. 

2. Letters to the Revd. Thomas Spencer 

(Herbert Spencer 1 $ uncle) 

[The letters are concerned mostly with 

politics and ecclesiastical affairs.l 

MS.91/ 

[18431 

4 16 Mar.l846 

George Crabbe (son of the poetl, n.a. 

Sir Robert Peel, Whitehall. 

[Written in the third person.l 

5 

6 

 

8 

9 

10 

1848 

7 Feb. 

20 Apr. 

1849 

R.Cobden, London. 

Quoted Peel p.282 (note] 95. 

R. Cobden, Manchester. Headed 'private 

Quoted Peel p.280 [note] 60, and 

P•75· 

3 Apr. [1849] w.s. Landor, 3 Rivers St., [Bath 

Somerset]. 

18 Apr. 

23 Apr. 

23 Apr. 

R.Cobden, London. 

n H 

Headed 'private'. 

John Bright, London. 

Bath. 

To T.Spencer, 

11 Envelope bearing note by E.Spencer: 

'[Auto]graph letters to my uncle 

Thomas ••• •. 

MS.91/ 

3· Letter to Harriet Spencer 

(Herbert Spencer's mother) 

12 1 July 1864 W.G.Spencer, 29 Bloomsbury Square.

2 

4o 

MS-791/ 

13 n.d. 

14 n.d. 

Letters and notes written by Herbert Spencer 

[Mar 1860] 

[Mar1' 18621 

3 .Apr.1867 

15 1 Jan.l83 

16 [May 1874] 

SEE ALSO MS.791/355/l, containing abstracts 

of about 50 letters from -HS to 

F.E.Lott. 

'Daily appropriation of time'. 1 leaf 

Wlll.k.- , 1839· Printed (with a few 

errors) Duncan ·p.33; quoted Peel 

p.271 [note] g4. 

'Definitions'. Definitions of Time, 

Fire, Curiosity, Perfection, Marriag1 

(two definitions), Sk.ull and Talking 

2 leaves. 

Quoted Peel p.20 [notel 84. 

[HS}, n.a. To [W.G.Spencer]. 

[Written on last page of letter to 

HS from W.B.Carpenter, 29 Feb.l860 - 

MS-791/53.] 

[HS], n.a. To [W.G.Spencer]. 

[Written on dorse of letter ~o 

from J.Lubbock, 17 .Mar.l862 ~ 

MS.91/64.1 

HS, Derby. To F.Harrison. [~, 

included in MS-791/355/9.1 

HS 

HS, Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall, s.w. 

To T .H.Huxley. Draft.· 

Quoted Huxley l, p.3apf see Duncan 

pp.l66-7. . 

HS, 3 Queen's Gardens. 1 

Sunday 1 • 

To the Countess of Derby. ~· 

(Written in the third person.J 

Quoted Duncan p.l85. 

1 [19M~ 18~] HS, 3 Queen's Gardens. To the 

Countess of Derby. Draft. [Written 

in the third person; in reply to 

T.H.Sanderson - MS-791/101.] 

18 24 Feb.l876 

19 26 Nov.l896 

Quoted Duncan pp.l85-6. 

HS, Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall. 

J.Tyndall • . 22Bl• 


To 

HS, Avenue Rd. To J .Morley.. · ~ 

(not in Spencer's hand, of part of 

a letter. Formerly filed with 

J.Morley's letter of 25 Nov.l896 - 

MS.91/248.]

3 

MS.791/ 

20 [27 Apr.l902l 

21 24 Feb.l902 

22 25 Apr.l902 

Note signed 'H.s.•, about Spencer's 

hair and eyesight on his 82nd 

birthday. 

See Duncan p.459, for facsimile of 

this note. 

HS, n.a. To Pro£essors Gabba and Porr 

replying to a request for Spencer's 

opinion respecting the proposed 

introduction of divorce in Italy. 

[Written in the third person. Not 

in Spencer's hand.} 

HS, 5 Percival Terrace, Brighton. 

To A.Bain. Discusses Mind. 

QQBl [not in Spencer's hand]. 

Quoted Duncan p.457. 

' 

MS.791/ 

23 

25 

26 

27 

28 

29 

5. - Letters to Herbert Spencer 

1844 

26- Dec. 

1848 

18 Nov. 

1851 

2 Apr. 

20 Apr. 

[1851] 

28 Apr. 

4 Nov. 

8 Dec. 

w.s. Moorsom, 4 Norfolk Crescent, 

Hyde Park. To HS, Wheeler's Lane, 

Birmingham, offering employment in 

London. Postmarks and postage stamp 

T.Sp-encer, 6 Ainslies [1 Belvedere, 

Bath, Somerset. HS and The Econo~ 

Sir Edward Bulwer-LYtton, Knebworth, 

Herts. [Written in the third 

person.] 

-Quoted Duncan p.6o. 

W.R.Greg, The Craig [] [-] 

R.Owen, Royal College of Surgeons. 

S.Morley, Wood St., [London] 

R.H.Hutton, 55 Park St., [-], 

Manchester. 

'

4 

Letters to HS 

MS.91/ 

1852 

30 

31 

32 

33 

35 

36 

37 

38 

39 

40 

41 

42 

1 June 

(1852] 

1 June 

_3 June 

n 

20 June 

28 Nov. 

[3 Dec. 

]&22_ 

13 June 

9 July 

29 July 

1856 

(Mar 

18561 

1.§21 

13 Mar. 

1858 

25 Nov. 

[1858] 

3 Dec. 

[1858] 

22 Dec. 

Leigh -Hunt, Kensington. 

C.Lyell, 11 Harley St. (Written in · 

the third person.] 

Sir Henry De La Beche, Jermyn St. 

[Written in the third person.] 

R.Owen, The Cottage, Sheen Gate, Mortlake, 

Surrey. 

Sir Roderick Murchison, 16 Be1grave Square 

(Written in the third person.]. 

G.Cornewall Lewis, Peterborough, Northants 

R.Owen. 

Abstract in MS.791/355Jl·, q.v.l 

Sir John [F.W.] Herschel, 32 Harley St. 

[Written in the third person; 

possibly not in Herschel's hand.} 

G.H.Lewes, n.a. 

A.Sedgwick, Cambridge. 

G.H.Lewes, 8 Parkshot, Richmond, Surrey. 

[Pencilled shopping or packing list on 

last· page.] 

,{:,_ p--,. -"X" .:......- 

Quotedj Dune an p. 80. 

(\ _ 

W.B.Carpenter, University Hall, 

Gordon Square, W.C. 

C.Darwin, Down[eJ, Bromley, Kent. 

[With a note by HS about the letter.] 

Letter printed Darwinii, pp.l4l-2. 

H.T.Buckle, 59 Oxford Terrace. 

.Quoted Duncan p.88. 

A.C.Fraser, University of Edinburgh. 

[Testimonial; not addressed to HS.J 

Quoted Duncan Po90.

5 

• 

MS-791/ 

1858 

44 27 Dec. 

Letters to HS 

H.Holland, Brook [] St. 

[Testimonial-1 

46 

47 

48 

49 

50 

51 

52 

53 

54" 

1860 

14 Jan. 

1 Feb. 

2 Feb. 

[1860] 

11 Feb. 

16 Feb. 

17 Feb. 

23 [Feb. 

18601 

28 Feb. 

[1860] 

29 Feb. 

12 Mar. 

G.B.Airy, [as from] Royal Observatory, 

Greenwich. 

See Duncan p.425. 

Lord Stanlel, [as from] 23 St.James's 

Square. [Written in the third person.] 

c. Darwin, Down[e], Bromley, Kent. 


J.S.Mill, Blackheath. 

C.~ell, 53 Barley St., W. 

G.Grote(1),Barrow Green,- Oxted, Surrey. 

C.Darwin, Down[eJ, Bromley, Kent. 


H.T.Buckle, 59 Oxford Terrace. 


W.B.Carpenter, 8 Queens Road West, 

Regents Park, N.W.. [On the last page 

is part of a letter from HS to 

W.G.Spencer - see above, p.2 (Marl860).: 

C.Babbage, Dorset St., Manchester Square, v 

(1) The University of London Library possesses the iibrary 

(not kept as a collection) of George Grote, which 

includes a copy of Spencer•s work The Principles of 

Philosophy (1855) inscribed 'With the Author's 

Compliments', containing a £ew notes in Grate's hand. 

Cf. Elizabeth R.Ziinan -· !George

• 

Letters to HS 

MS.91/ 

55 

- . 56 

57 

58 

59 

60 

61 

1860 

15 Mar. 

16 Mar. 

[1860] 

17 Mar. 

26 Mar. 

10 Apr. 

[18601 

:; Sept. 

(1860] 

10 Oct. 

C.Kingsley(1) , Eversley, Hants. 

J.A.Froude (1), Taplow House, Bideford, 

Devon. 

Sir John F.W.Herschel (1), Collingwood, 

Hawkhurst, Kent. 

R.Chambers (1), 1 Doune Terrace, Edinburgh 

B.Jowett, [as-from] Ballio1 College, 

Oxford. 

T.H.Huxley (2), 14 Waverley Place, 

[London] 

Printed Huxley i, pp.212-3; 

(from Huxley) Peel p.5. 

T.H.Huxley (2), n.a. 

Printed Huxley i, p.214. 

quoted 

62 

. 63 

64 

65 

66 

67 

1861 

2 July 

30 July 

1862 

17 Mar. 

1863 

14 Jan. 

16 June 

17 Nov. 

Go1dwin Smith, Oxford Union Society, 

Oxford. 

J.S.Mill, Blackheath • 

J.Lubbock, Chislehurst, Kent. 

[On the dorse of the letter is a note 

.from HS to W.G.Spencer () - see above-, 

p.2 (Marl862) .. ] 

H.W.Bates, 10 Hollis Place, Prince of Wale 

Rd., N. W •. 

G.B.Airy,_Royal Observatory, Greenwich. 

A.Bain, Crown St., Aberdeen. 

(1) 

(2) 


A letter of 19 Sept.l860, Huxley to HS, is·printed 

in Huxley i, pp~213-4.

7 

Letters to HS 

MS.791/ 

1864 

68 3 Apr. 

[25 Novo 

J.S.Mill, Blackheath. 

Printed (with the omission of a few 

lines) Duncan pp.ll4-5. 

Lord Derby [14th Earl]. Abstract in 

MS.91/355/l, q.v.l 

69 

70 

71 

72 

1866 

9 Apr. 

- June 

22 Dec. 

28 Dec. 

W.G.Spencer, 17 Wilmot St., Derby. 

Noted by HS 'one of my father's latest 

letters•. 

Henry Ward Beecher, New York. 

Printed Duncan pp.l28-9. 

G.Grote, The Ridgeway, Shere, Guildford, 

Surrey. 

G.Grote, The Ridgeway, Shere, Guildford, 

Surrey. 

1 Nov. 

1868 

Ernst Haeckel, Jena, Germany. 

[In German.] 

74 

75 

6 

7 

8 

18 Feb. 

16 May 

8 Nov. 

_1869 

[Jan. 

1869] 

2 July 

J.C.Webster, Secretary, Athenaeum, Pall 

Mall, S.W.. HS elected a member; 

_enclosing rules and general notice [both 

wanting]. Printed letter, completed in 

MS. 


T.A.Ribot, Vesoul, Haute-Saone. [In . 

English.] About translating Principles 

of Psychology. · 

T.H.Huxley, 26 Abbey Place. 

J.Tyndall(1) , Great Malvern, Worcs. 

[Dated 'Probably January 1869 1 in a 

later hand. Possibly 'Xmas Eve' 1868] · 

J . .S.Mill, Paris. 

(1) Tyndall's papers are in the Royal Institution of 

Great Britain.

• 

8 

Letters to HS 

MS •. 791/ 

9 

1869 

6-7 Oct. 

J.Fiske (1), Oxford St., Cambridge, [Mass.] 

Quoted (from draft in Henry L.Huntington 

Library) - in M.Berman - John Fiske. The 

evolution of a ponularizer (Cambridge, 

Mass., 1961) pp.75-6. 

80 

81 

10 June 

[182] 

10 Aug. 

C.Darwin, Bassett, Hants. 

Quoted Darwin iii, pp.l65-6. 

Sir Arthur Helps, Privy Council Office~ 

82 2 Jan. T.H.Huxley, 4 Marlborough Place, Abbey Rd., 

N. W •. [Dated 1872 in error.] 

83 6 Jan. E.Littre, Assembl6e Nationale, Versailles. 

[In French.] 

84 16 Mar. J.S.Mill, 10 Albert Mansions, Victoria St., 

S.W. Noted by HS 'This was his last 

letter to me. He died on the 8th. of 

May' • 

85 27 June W.S.Jevons, Hull, Yorks. 

86 29 June EM3x Mtlller, Parks End, Oxford. 

87 18 Sept. J.Morley, 17 Broadwater Down, Tunbridge 

Wells, Kent. 

88 13 Nov. W.E.Gladstone, 11 Carlton House Terrace, 

89 

90 

13 Nov. 

18 Nov. 

s.w .. 

See Duncan pp.l62-4. 

A.R.Wallace, The Dell, Grays, Essex. 

R.Lowe, Secretary of State, Home 

Department. 

(1) Fiske's papers are in the Henry L.Huntington Library. 

A short note from Spencer [230ct.l873J is printed 

(p.iii) in The Personal letters of John Fiske. 

Printed for Members of the Bibliophile Society by 

The Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1929. There 

is a copy of this work in the University of London 

Library.

t 

9 

MS-791/ 

91 

. 92 

93 

Mm 

24 Nov. 

5 Dec. 

17 Dec. 

[21 Dec. 

1873] 

Letters to HS 

J.Know1es(1), The Rallies, Clapham Common. 

J .. C1erk-Maxwel1, ll Scroope Terrace, 

Cambridge. 


J.Clerk-Maxwell, 11 Scroope Terrace, 

Cambridge. 

Quoted Duncan pp.429-30. 

J.T,yndall, Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall. 

Printed Duncan p.428. 

95 

96 

97 

98 

99 

lOO 

101 

1874 

15 Jan. 

19 Jan. 

20 Mar. 

20 Apr. 

11 May 

May 

[1874] 

18 May 

W.E.Gladstone, 10 Downing St., Whitehall. 

See Duncan pp.l62-4. 

[Gladstone•s lette: 

to HS, 12 Jan.l874, is quoted in 

Correspondence on Church and Religion of 

William &vart Gladstone, ed. D.C.Lathbu~ 

(2 vols, 1910) ii p.gs.J 

J.A.Godley, 10 Downing St. (on behalf of 

W.E.Gladstone). 

E.B •. Tylor, Linden, Wellington, Somerset. 

J.C.Webster, Secretary, Athenaeum, Pall 

Mall. HS nominated to Athenaeum 

Committee. Enclosing a list [wanting] 

of the Committee members. Printed 

letter, completed in MS. 

J.C.Webster, Secretary, Athenaeum. 

elected a member of the Committee. 

Printed letter, completed in MS. 

Printed invitation card for Countess of 

Derby's 1 At Home• on 20 May 187~.(2) 

Completed in MS. 

See Duncan p.l85. 

T.H.Sanderson, Foreign Office, (on behalf 

of Lady Derby). (2) 

See Duncan p.l85. 

HS 

(1) Cf.Priscilla Metcalf - 1 

The rise of James Knowles, 

Victorian architect and editor•) University of London 

Ph.D.thes~s,l97l • . - 

(2) For HS's replies, see above, p.2.

10 

Letters to HS 

MS.791/ 

1874 

102 10 Nov. 

103 17 Dec. 

Grant Allen, Queen's College, Spanish Town 

Jamaica. Enclosing copy of his verses 

'To Herbert Spencer'. 


J.Clerk-Maxwell, Glenlair, Dalbeattie, 

Kirkcudbrightshire. 

Referred to, Peel p.269 [note] 65. 

104 

105 

106 

107 

108 

109 

110 

111 

112 

113 

114 

115 

1.§2.2. 

9 Feb. 

14 Apr. 

15 Apr. 

9 May 

23 May 

15 June 

3 Nov. 

1.3 Nov. 

13 Nov. 

1876 

22 Feb. 

(1876] 

20 Dec. 

[23 Dec. 

25 Dec. 

Grant A11en, Queen's Co1lege,.Spanish Town 

Jamaica. 

Leslie Stephen, Wastdale Head, Cumberland. 

A.Lane Fox, Guildford, Surrey. 

J.Fiske, Harvard University, Cambridge, 

Mass. 

Grant Al1en, Queen's College, Spanish Town 

Jamaica. 

T.H.Huxley, University Club, Edinburgh. 

Quoted Huxley i, p.445. 

A.C.Lyall, 'Camp in Rajputana•, India. 

C.Darwin, Down[el, Beckenham, Kent. 

A.R.Wallace, The Dell, Grays, Essex. 

J.Tyndall, Royal Institution. 

W.E.Gladstone, Hawarden, Flintshire. 

A.R.Wallace. Abstract in MS.791/355/l, 

q.v.l 

A.Bain, Aberdeen • 

. 116 

117 

118 

12 Jan. 

26 Feb. 

[1877] 

1 Mar. 

(187] 

J.Fiske, Harvard College Library, 

-Cambridge, Mass. 

Grant Allen, 10 Beaumont St., Oxford. 

Grant Allen, 

tl 11 11

11 

Letters to HS 

MS.791/ 

.!§22 

119 9 Apr. 

120 9 Apr. 

121 6May 

122 28 May 

[28 July 

123 16 Aug. 

C.J.Ellicott, Bishop of Gloucester and 

Bristol, Palace, Gloucester. 

W.E.Gladstone, 73 Harley St. 

Lord Belper, 73 Eaton Square, S.W. 

G.J.Romanes, 18 Cornwall Terrace, 

Regents Park, N.W. 

T.H.Huxley. 

q.v.] 

Abstract in MS-791/355/1, 

Grant Allen, Broad St.t Lyme Regis, Dorset . 

Enclosing his verses entitled 'Pisgah 1 • 

124 5 Dec. Grant Allen, 9 Douglas Crescent, Edinburgh. 

125 16 Dec. J.Tyndall, Royal Institution. 

126 23 Dec. Grant Allen, 9 Douglas Crescent, Edinburgh. 

127 

-128 

129 

130 

1878 

[18771 

5May 

13 May 

7 Sept • . 

18 Sept. 

John A.Bernays [1, H.M.Dockyard, 

Chatham, Kent. 

J.Morley, 4 Chesham Place, Brighton, 

Sussex. 

R.A.Proctor (1), 2 North Rd., Clapham Park 

s.w .. 

R._A.Proctor (1 ), 

11 

131 

132 

133 

134 

12 Mar. 

6 May 

20 June 

22 June 

(18791 

W.S.Jevons, 2 The Chestnuts, West Heath, 

Hampstead, N. W •. 

F.Pollock, 24 Bryanston St., Portman 

Square, w. 

W.E.H.Lecky, 38 Onslow Gardens, S.W. 


Grant Allen, 22 Bonchurch Rd., North 

Kensington, W. 

(1) See Duncan pp.l95-6.

12 

Letters to HS 

MS.791/ 

135 

- 136 

137 

1§2:l 

25 June 

27 June 

30 June 

Leslie Stephen, 13 Hyde Park Gate South, 

s. w •· 

M.~.(] 

Lewes [George Eliot], The Heights, 

Witley, Surrey • 

.. ;,....._ r--o.AY .... ~ 

QuotedjDuncan p.l99 (printed, from 

Duncan~ in The George Eliot letters 

ed. G.S.Haight, vii (1956) pp.172-3). 

Lord Derby, 23 St.James•s Square, S.W •. 


138 

-139 

14-0 

141 

142 

143 

144 

145 

146 

147 - 

2 July 

22 July 

3 Oct. 

1880 

11 Jan. 

5 June 

7 June 

1 Sept. 

12 Sept. 

28 Oct. 

18 Dec. 


I 

A.R.Wallace\ Waldron Edge, Duppas Hill, 

Croydon, Surrey. 

QUoted Duncan p.199. 

W.E.Gladstone, 73 Harley St., W. 

G.Rolleston, Anatomical Dept., Museum, 

Oxford. 

T.Archer Hirst, Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall, 

s. w •. 

W.De Morgan (1), 36 Cheyne Row, Chelsea. 

W.De Morgan (1), 36 ·cheyne Row. 

J.Morley, Paterdale, Penrith, Cumberland. 

A.H.Sayce, Queen•s College, Oxford. 

W.S.Jevons, University of London, 

Burlington Gardens, w. 

M.A.Cross [George Eliot], 4 Cheyne Walk, 

Chelsea, S.W. Note by HS on third page. 

Letter and HS's note printed Dunccn 

p.214. George Eliot's letter printed, 

from Duncan, in The George Eliot letters 

ed. G.S.Haight, vii (1956) p9348. 

( 1) 

Part of the correspondence between 

printed in Anna M.(D].W.Stirling 

and his wife, 1922, pp.l09-lll. 

of 7 June 1880 is not accurately 

Duncan p.210. 

HS and De Morgan is 

William De Morgan 

De Morgan•s letter 

printed. See also

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Letters to HS 

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1880 

148 

23 Dec. 

J.W.Cross, 4 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, S.W •. 

149 

150 

151 

152 

153 

154 

155 

156a 

l56b 

1881 

24 Jan. 

[1881] 

12 Mar. 

6 Apr. 

9 July 

20 July 

15 Aug. 

[1881] 

30 Aug. 

31 Oct. 

12 Nov• 

W.Black, Paston House, Paston Place, 

Brighton, Sussex. 

A.C.Swinburne, The Pines, Putney Hill, S.W. 

T{ -Q,u-et-ed--Du.n-ca-:rl-jh--2-26-. 

J.Brett, 38.Harley St., W. 

J.Bright, 10 Downing St., Whitehall. 


Sir William W.Gull, 74 Brook St., 

Grosvenor Square, W. 

Grant Allen, The Nook, Horsham Rd., 

Dorking, Surrey. 

A.Clark, Abbotsford, Melrose, 

Roxburghshire. 

Beatrice Potter, Standish House, 

Stonehouse, Glos. 

G.Croom Robertson, 31 Kensington Park. 

Gardens, w. [Possibly 12 Nov.l887.]. 

l5 

158 

159 

160 

161 

162 

163 

164 

165 

166 

. 167 

1882 

20 Jan. 

21 Jan. 

8 Apr. 

10 Apr. 

11 Apr. 

23 Apr. 

9 May 

24 June 

10 July 

(1882] 

24 Oct. 

3 Dec • 

J .Martineau, 35 Gordon Square, W .C •. 

Lord Manchester, Manchester, Lancs. 

Lord Pembroke, Wilton House, Salisbury, 

Wilts. 

J.A.Godley, 10 Downing St., Whitehall 

(on behalf of W.E.Gladstone). 

J.Bright, Rochdale, Lancs. 

J.Fiske, 22 Berkeley St., Cambridge, Mass. 

Lord Derby, 23 St.James•s Square, S.W~ 

W.E.Gladstone, 10 Downing St., Whitehall. 

Sir Henry S.Maine, Trinity Hall Lodge, 

Cambridge. 

J.Fiske, 22 Berkeley St., Cambridge~ 

Sir George Grey, Kawau, Christchurch, 

New Zealand. 

Mass.

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169 

170 

171 

172 

173 

174 

175 

16 

177 

178 

179 

180 

181 

182 

183 

184 

185 

186 

187 

188 

1883 

9 Feb. 

6 Apr. 

10 May 

23 Nov. 

1884- 

26 Jan. 

29 Feb. 

8 Apr. 

17 Apr. 

17 June 

17 July 

25 Aug. 

26 Aug. 

21 Sept. 

21 Sept. 

5 Oct. 

[1884] 

7 Nov. 

1885 

24 Jan. 

11 Feb. 

29 Mar. 

16 June 

20 June 

G.H.Darwin, [as from] Hotel Chatham, Paris. 

H.Fawcett, 51 The Lawn, S.Lambeth Rd. 

Baroness Burdett-Coutts, Stratton St. 


R.A.Proctor, Star Hotel, Maidstone, Kent. 

Sir George Grey, Northern Club, Auckland, 

New Zealand. 

Lord Wemyss, Liberty and Property Defence 

League, 4 Westminster Chambers, 

Victoria St., S. W ·- 

Yves Guyot, Ville de Paris, Conseil 

Municipal, Paris. [In French.] 

Baroness Burdett-Coutts, Grand Hotel, 

Biarritz. 

L.A.Tollemache, (as from] Hotel Sonnenberg~ 

Engelberg, nr.Lucerne. 

J.E.Boehm, The Avenue, 76 Fulham Rd., S.W. 

Sir Thomas H.Farrer, Abinger Hall, Dorking~ 

Surrey. 

Leslie Stephen, Talland House, St.Ives, 

Cornwall. 

Sir J.Crichton-Browne, 7 Cumberland 

Terrace, Regents Park, N.W. 

Sir A.C.Lyall, Lieut.Governor's Camp, 

N.W.Provinces, India. 

Sir H.S.Maine, 27 Cornwall Gardens, S.W. 

A.H.Sayce, Queen's College, Oxford. 

J.E.Boehm, The Avenue, 76 Fulham Rd., s.w. 

J.W.Cross, 3 Percy Villas,Can~den Hill, w. 

O.W.Holmes, Boston, Mass. 

R.Giffen, Board of Trade, S.W._ 

C.J.Ellicott, Bishop of Gloucester and 

Bristol, n.a.

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1885 

189 20 June 

. 190 21 June 

191 23 June 

192 13 Sept. 

193 17 Oct. 

194 28 Oct. 

195 27 Nov. 

1886 

196 1 Feb. 

197 18 Mar. 

- 198 22 Apr. 

Sir Lewis Pelly, Belgrave Mansions, 

Grosvenor Gardens. 

A.H.Sayce, 4 Barnard Villas, Bath, 

Somerset. 

Lord Dalhousie, 5 Hereford Gardens, W. 

R.A.Proctor, Harker•s Hotel, York. 

Lord Spencer, Spencer House, St.James's 

Place, S.W. 

A.R.Wallace, Frith Hill, Godalming, Surrey 

O.W.Holmes, Boston, Mass. 

W.H.Flower, British Museum (Natural 

History), Cromwell Rd., S.W. 

J.Knowles, Queen Anne's Lodge, St.James's 

Park, S.W. 

Lord Dalhousie, 5 Hereford Gardens, w. 

199 

200 

201 

202 

203 

204 

205 

8 Mar. 

22 Aug. 

[12 Nov. 

1888 

22 Feb. 

15 Dec. 

1890 

1 Jan. 

26 Mar. 

26 Apr. 

H.R.Tedder, Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall. 

Lord Aberdare, Stony Lea, Ilkley, Yorks. 

G.Croom Robertson. 

156b.l 

See above, MS-791/ 

P.H.Calderon, Burlington House, Piccadilly 

w. 

D.Hack Tuke, 'Lyndon Lodge, Hanwell, W. 

& 63 Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, 

w. I 

Sir William Thomson, Broxton Old Hall, 

Chester. 


E.S.Bolden, (Lick Observatory), University 

of California, Mount Hamilton, 

California. 

E.H.Blakeney, Trinity College, Cambridge.

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207 

208 

209 

210 

211 

212 

213 

214 

215 

216 

217 

218 

219 

220 

221 

1890 

27 .Apr. 

25 June 

5 Nov. 

1891 

12 May 

19 May 

4 July 

23 Oct. 

1892 

9 Feb. 

20 Feb. 

9 Mar. 

24 Aug. 

7 Sept. 

6 Oct. 

6 Dec. 

~ 

23 May 

5 June 

Karl Blind, 3 Winchester Rd., South 

Hampstead, N.W. 

J.W.Judd, 31 Ennerdale Rd., Kew, Surrey. 


W.H.Fremantle, 3 Ship St., Oxford. 

H.Sidgwick, ·Hill Side, Chesterton Rd., 

Cambridge .• 

Lord Meath, 83 Lancaster Gate, W. 

G.C.Brodrick, Mrs.Michie's, Castleton 

Terrace, Braemar, Aberdeenshire. 

J.Murray, 50 Albemarle St., W. 

Beatrice Potter, 52 A[-]. St., [Londori] 

Sir Andrew Clark, 16 Cavendish Square, W. 

A.Cowper Ranyard, ll Stone Buildings, 

Lincoln's Inn, W .. c .. 

Kentaro Kaneko, Savoy Hotel, Victoria 

Embankment, · W .. C. 

See Duncan pp. 317-23. 

Duti-c an· -pp-. 320-21. { 

Letter quot-ed 

Hermann Adler, Office of the Chief Rabbi, 

22 Finsbury Square. 

O.W .. Holmes, 296 Beacon St., [Boston, Mass.: 

F.Harrison, 38 Westbourne Terrace, W. 

~eplying to HS. See Duncan pp.324-5 for 

Spencer's letter.) 

Silvanus P.Thompson, Morland, Chislett Rd • . 

West Hampstead, N .. W •. 

E •. Fry, Failand House, Failand, nr.Bristol, 

Glos. 

See Duncan p.348, for Spencer's reply.

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222 

223 

224 

225 

226 

227 

228 

229 

13 June 

7 Aug. 

25 & 29 

Nov. 

7 Dec. 

1894 

23 June 

8 Aug. 

13 Sept. 

2 Nov. 

[1894-] 

Mrs. E.·Lynn Lint on, The Grove Hotel, 

Swanage, Dorset. 

Mrs.E.Lynn Linton, The Vfuite Hart Hotel, 

Harrowgate, Durham. 

J.Tyndall, Hind Head, Haslemere, Surrey. 

[In Mrs.Tyndall's hand.]. 

Lord Argyll, Argyll Lodge, Kensington. 

Sir John Lubbock, British Museum (Natural 

History), Cromwell Rd., S.W. 

D.Sharp, Cambridge. Enclosing a sheet of 

tracings 'from some of Grassi's figures' 

[of antsl • 

. ~ 

G.J.Holyoa.ke, Eastern Lodge, Brighton, 

Sussex. 

(Replying to HS. 


J.S.Burdon-Sanderson, Oxford. 

See Duncan p.358 for 

~ 

230 25 Feb. 

231 9 June 

232 14 June 

233 27 July 

22 Oct. 

235 23 Oct. 

236 24 Oct. 

237 26 Octo 

G.H.Darwin, Newnham.Grange, Cambridge. 

T.Gomperz, Vienna Ill, Reisnerstrasse 13. 


F.Galton, 42 Rutland Gate, S.W~ 


D.Masson, Craigview, Murrayfield, 

Edinburgh. 

Goldwin Smith, The Grange, Toronto, Canada. 

Headed 'Dictated•. 

See Duncan pp.375-6. 

Lord Reay, Carolside, Earls·ton, 

Berwickshire. 

J.Knowles, Queen Anne's Lodge, St.James's 

Park, s.w. 

A.Sedgwick, Whitefield, Great Shelford, 

Cambridge.

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Letters to HS 

MS.79l/ 

1895 

238 10 Nov. 

239 1 Dec. 

E.Haeckel, Jena, Germany. [In English.] 

W.R.Gowers, 50 Queen Anne St., W. 

240 

241 

242 

243 

244 

245 

246 

247 

248 

249 

250 

251 

252 

253 

254 

255 

256 

2 Apr. 

21 Apr. 

3 May 

26 [] 

Aug. 

20 Oct. 

23 Oct. 

18 Nov. 

23 Nov. 

25 Nov. 

28 Nov. 

Dec. 

16 Dec. 

18 Dec. 

!§2.2 

3 Jan. 

6 Jan. 

6 Jan. 

8 Jan. 

H.Hamilton Fyfe (1), The Times, Printing 

House Square (on behalf of the Editor). 

F.T.Dalton (1), The Times, Printing House 

Square (on behalf of the Editor). 

J.Sterling, 4 South Place, Rutland Gate, 

s .. w. 

·.w.E.Gladstone, Hawarden, Flintshire. 

E.W.MacBride, St.John's College, Cambridge. 

W.B.Hardy, Caius College, Cambridge. 

11 tl 

W .B.Hardy, 

Sir R.Giffen, 9 Bina Gardens, S.Kensington, 

s.w. 

J.Morley, 57 Elm Park Gardens, 

S.Kensington, S.W. [For part of HS 1 s 

reply, see above, p.2 (26 Nov.l896).] 

A.G.Tansley, 50 ~reat 

" 

Russell St., W.C. 

E.Frankland, The Yews, Reigate Hill, 

Surrey. 

A.Sedgwick, Whitefield, Great Shelford, 

· Cambridge. 

W.H.Hudson, Stanford University, 

California. 

C.S.Miall, 19 Bramshill Gardens, N.W. 

M.D.Conway, Russell Mansions, Southampton 

Row, W.C •. 

Lord Playfair, 68 Onslow Gardens, 

S.Kensington. [Dated 1896 in error.] 

Lord Argyll, Inverary, Argyllshire. 

[Dated 1896 in error.] 

(1) About Spencer•s articles on metric system; 

see Duncan p.379.

19 

• 

Letters to HS 

MS.791/ 

!§22 

257 10 Jan. 

. 258 5 Feb • 

259 22 Feb. · 

L.F.Ward, 1~64 

D.C. 

R.I.Avenue, Washington, 

G.J.Allman, Ardmore, Parkstone, Dorset. 

H.Sidgwick, Newnham College, Cambridge. 

Headed 'Private'. 

260 

261 

262 

263 

264 

2 Feb. 

1 Mar. 

23 Mar. 

5 Dec. 

28 Dec. 

D.Masson, Gavanlea [], Juniper Green, 

Edinburgh. 

H.H.Bemrose, Lonsda.le Hill, Derby. 

W.A.S.Rewins, British Libra~J of Political 

Science, 10 Adelphi Terrace, Strand, 

w.c. 

See Duncan p.403 for Spencer's reply. 

W.E.H.Lecky, 38 Onslow Gardens, S.W. 

J.D.Hooker, The Camp, Sunningdale, Berks. 


265 

266 

267 

268 

269 

270 

271 

1 Feb. 

1 Apr. 

19 [May 

1898] 

22 July 

27 July 

29 July 

25 Sept. 

W.H.Mallock (1), Bachelor•s Club, Hamilton 

Place, w. 

(Replying to HS. See Dun~ pp.407-8 

for Spencer's letter.) 

A.Sedgwick, Thorns Hall, Sedbergh, Yorks. 

A.Carnegie, Langham Hotel, London. 

P.Geddy, University Hall, Edinburgh. 

C.Lloyd Morgan, University College, Bristo: 

Glos. 

E.Onslow Ford, 62 Acacia Rd., St.John's 

Wood, N. w •. 

A.Sedgwick, 4 Cranmer Rd., Cambricge. 

( 1) 

Cf. P.M.Yarker - 1 

The literary achievement of 

W.H.Mallock~[With bibliographies]. University 

of £ondon M~A~thes~s, 19~. ·

20 

Letters to HS 

272 

23 

274 

275 

276 

277 

278 

279 

280 

281 

282 

283 

284 

285 

286 

287 

288 

289 

290 

26 Sept. 

29 Nov. 

~ 

13 Oct. 

1900 

12 Jan. 

26 Apr. 

8 Feb. 

30 July 

1901 

15 Jan. 

17 Jan. 

25 Apr. 

26 Apr. 

27 Apr. 

5 Oct. 

11 Nov. 

20 Nov. 

20 Nov. 

21 Nov. 

27 Nov. 

7 Dec. 

Lord Argyll, Inverary, Argyllshire. 

Lord Rendel, 64 Marine Parade, Brighton, 

Sussex. 

W.Ouless, Holworth House, Dorchester, 

Dorset. 


H.W.Massingham, 34 Grosvenor Rd., S.W. 

E'.Clodd, Savile Club, 107 Piccadilly, W. 

Sir Joshua G.Fitch, 13 Leinster Square, W. 

I.Roberts,- Starfield, Crowborough, Sussex. 

F.Darwin, wychfield, Cambridge. 

[Enclosed with MS-791/280] 

W.Heape, Heyroun, Chaucer Rd., Cambridge. 

[Enclosing MS.791/279] 

W.Salvadori, Firenze, Via Cimabue 16. 

[In English.l 

F.Harrison, 38 Westbourne Terrace, w. 

G.J.Holyoake, Eastern Lodge, Brighton, 

Sussex. 

Leslie Stephen, 22 ijyde Park Gate, S.W~ 

J.Morley, 57 Elm Park Gardens, S.W~ 

(Replying to HS. 


F.Darwin, Wychfield, Cambridge. 

See Dune an p .451 for 

F.Harrison, 38 Westbourne Terrace, W. 

Enclosing [MS.791/355/2.] 

Louisa C.Tyndall, 37 Roder Strasse5 

Wiesbaden, Germany. 

J.D.Hooker, The Camp, Sunningdale, Berks. 


Lord Hobhouse, 15 Bruton St., W.

21 

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Letters to HS 

MS.791/ 

1902 

291 9 May 

292 28 May 

293 ll Aug. 

294 28 Oct• 

295 11 Nov. 

296 (n.d. 

1902] 

!.2Q2 

297 [early 

1903] 

298 

299 

300 

" 

2 Jan 

23 Jan. 

W.E.Hodgson, Pall Mall Gazette, 

18 Charing Cross Rd. [Five lines 

in shorthand (draft of a reply) on 

the third page.]. 

Elie Halevy, 12 Upper Bedford Place, W.C. 

W.Lawson, Brayton, Cumberland. 

L.Botha, Horrex Hotel, Strand, W.C. 

W.H.Mallock," Bachelors Club, Hamilton 

Place, w. 

P.Gibbs, 26 Overstrand Mansions, S. W •. 

Beatrice Webb, 41 _Grosvenor Rd., 

Westminster Embankment. 

Beatrice Webb~ " . " " 

G.Salvadori, .Firenze, Via Ventisette 

[] Aprlle 16. [In English.] 

W.S.Bl-unt, [ 

Egypt. 

1, Ezhet el Nakhl [], 

301 

302 

303 

304 

305 

306 

22 Feb. 

6 Mar. 

11 Mar. 

18 Mar. 

22 Mar. 

26 Mar. 

(A letter from HS, c.3 Oct.l898, to 

Blunt is printed in W.S.Blunt - 

~y Diaries i (1919) pp.504-6 (cf. 

pp.365-6).] 

Louisa C.Tyndall, Hind Head House, 

Haslemere, Surrey. 

F.Harrison, Elm Hill, Hawkhurst, Kent. 

(Replying to HS. See Duncan p.466 for 


Lord Rendel, Chateau de Thorenc, Cannes, 

France. 

Lord Rendel, 

t1 tt lt n 

W.H.Hudson, Hotel del Prado, Chicago, 

Illinois. 

See Duncan pp.465-6. 

G.K.Fortescue [], British Museum, W.C .. 

[Probably addressed to Spencer's 

secretary.]

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307 

308 

309 

310 

311 

312 

313 

314 

315 

316 

317 

318 

1.2Q2. 

8 Apr. 

10 Apr. 

18 Apr. 

27 Apr. 

27 Apr. 

10 May 

25 June 

5 Aug. 

14 Sept .. 

26 Sept. 

26 Sept. 

3 Dec. 

Dowager Duchess of Argyll, Macharioch, 

Campbeltown, Argyllshire. 

Noted 'A[n]sd D.D[uncan] 19.ii.04•. 

Lord Avebury, High Elms, Farnborough R.S.O. 

Kent. 

See Duncan p.468 £or part of Spencer's 

reply. 

W.Knight, The Athenaeum, Pall Mall. 

G.J.Holyoake, Eastern Lodge, Brighton. 

See frQDcan p.~68. 

H.R.Tedder, The Athenaeum, Pall Mallo 

A.Carnegie, Langham Hotel, London .. 

J.D.Hooker, 13 Park Parade; Harrowgate, 

Durham. 

Quoted Duncan p.40 .. 

W.S.Blunt, Newbuildings Place, Horsham, 

Sussex. 

A.Carnegie, Skibo Castle, Dornoch, 

Sutherland. 

Quoted Duncan p.472; 

Peel p.2. 

J.Morley, F1owermead, Wimbledon Park, 

s.w. 


J.Morley, [address as above]. 

Printed Duncan p .. 473. 

Kate Courtney, 15 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, 

s. w. .

23 

Letters to HS 

Undated Letters 

MS.791/ 

319 (1840s] 

320 

321 

322 

323 

324 

325 

326 

327 

328 

329 

330 

331 

332 

333 

334 

14 Mar. (c.l860] 

(._.. 

7 Apr. [1861] 

21 Aug. [1873] 

27 Dec. [18731 

Sat. [1874] 

30 Jan. (c.l877J 

17 Apr. [c.l878] 

10 May 

[bet.l878 & 1887] 

sa.t.[bet.l880 & 1887] 

Sat. [bet .1883 & 1887] 

26 May [c.l890] 

17 Feb. [n.d.] 

17 Sept. 

[n.d.(after 1881)] 

25 [n.d. J 

Wed. [n.d.J 

[n.d. 

Edward Bernays, n.a. 

[Last leaf only.] 

Erbx Muller, New College Lane~ 

Oxford. 

J.Tyndall, n.a. 

C.Darwin, Down[e], Beckenham, 

Kerit. 

Lord Houghton, Serley Hall, 

Bawtry, Yorks. 

1 

The Problematical Thinker• 

[G.H.Lewes], The Priory, 

21 N~rth Bank, Regents Park. 

(5 words) quoted Peel p.269 

[note] 45. 

M.D.Conw~, 51 Netting Hill 

Square. 

J.A.Froude, 5 Onslow Gardens, 

s.w. 


Lady Dalhousie, 5 Hereford 

-Gardens, \V. 

Lord Dalhousie, 5 Hereford 

Gardens, w. 

G.J.Romanes, 18 Cornwall 

Terrace, Regents Park, N.W. 

Robert [W.] Buchanan, 

llA Park Rd., Regents Park, 

N.W. 

_Lord Queensberry, 24 James St., 

Buckingham Gate. 

Dorothy Tennant, 2 Richmond 

Terrace, Whitehall, S.W._ 


J.Tyndall. Abstract in 

MS.791/355/l, q.v.]

6. Letters to Herbert Spencer's executors, C.Holme 

and F.E.Lott, and to his secretary, W.Troughton 

(1) 

MS.791/ 

Recipient 

!2Q2 

335 9 Dec. 

336 10 Dec. 

337 11 Dec. 

[1903] 

338 11 Dec. 

[1903] 

339 11 Dec. 

340 11 Dec. 

341 

11 

3i~2 " 

343 

tt 

" 

Karl Blind, 3 Winchester Rd., [An executor] 

S.Hampstead, N.W~ 

Henrietta Huxley, Hodeslea, 

Staveley Rd., Eastbourne, 

Sussex. 

Sir Michael Foster, Nine 

Wells, Great Shelford, 

Cambridge. 

R.Garnett, 27 Tanza Rd., 

Hampstead. 

L.Huxley, Prior's Field, 

Godalming, Surrey. 

Raphael Meldola, 

6 Brunswick Square, W.C. 

G.Salvadori, Leipsig, 

Germany. (In English.] 

H.R.Tedder, The Athenaeum. 

Sir Henry Thompson, 

35 Wimpole St., W. 

[Written in the third 

person.l 

W.T~oughton 

[Executors] 

[An executor] 

Executors 

F.E.Lott 

W.Troughton 

u 

Executors 

Sir William Thiselton-Dyer, [ " J 

Royal Gardens, Kew, Surrey. 

345 "[1903] Beatrice Webb, 41 Grosvenor W.Troughton 

Rd.,Westminster Embankment. 

34-6 

12 Dec. 

•1904 

Sir Hubert Parry, 

Royal College of Music, 

Prince Consort Rd., S.W. 

C.Holme 

350 

7 Jan. 

F.Darwin, 11 Egerton Place, 

S. W •. [Pencilled notes on 

last page.l 

8[] Jan. A.Herbert, Tewfik Palace 

Hotel, Cairo, Egypt. 

26 Jan. 

16 Feb. 

W.H.Hudson, 15 Keppel St., 

Russell Square, W.C. 

Henrietta Huxley, Hodeslea, 

Staveley Rd., Eastbourne, 

Sussex. 

W.Troughton 

11 

n 

11 

( 1) 

See also MS.791/355/l May-Dec.l903. Abstracts 

(with q_uotations) of 19 letters from W.Troughton 

to F.E.Lott, about Spencer's illness acd death~

25 

7. Letters to David Duncan 

MS.791/ 

351 23 Feb.l904 

[19 June 1905 

Thomas Buzzard, 7 1 + Grosvenor St., W._ 

(Enclosing one of Spencer's letters 

for the biography. The letter 

was returned to Buzzard; quoted 

Duncan p~315.1 

Kate Courtney. See MS.91/355/10.] 

8. Unidentified material 

352 [early 1860] 'A.H._' [Arthur Helps]. Last leaf 

of letter. To [-] 

353 '1842' Sheet of shorthand. Dated 1842 in 

a later hand. 

9. Portraits, drawinss, photographs 

MS.791/354 

A volume lettered 'Records of Herbert Spencer' 

containing photographs and drawings, details 

as follows ( 1 ): 

[W.G.SpencerJ 'A sketch I began of my father 

when he was about 52 or 53 and I was about 

22 or 23 H.S.-' [c.l843.] 30 x 24.5 cm. 

f.2 (1) Photograph of Spencer's mother. [n.d~l 

(2) Water-colour portrait of Spencer's father. 

[.Artist unknown. -Possibly HS n.d. 1 

17 x 12 cm. 

(3) Photograph of Spencer's father. [n.d.] 

f.3 (l) Photograph o.f 27 Exeter St. , Derby. 

[Reproduced Duncan p.7.] 

(2) Photograph of 31 Wilmot St. , Derby. 

[Reproduced Dun can P • 9 • ] 

f.4 (l) Catherine Spencer (H.Spencer's grandmother) 

Pencil drawing by HS. [n.d.-] 

10.5 x 7.5 cm. Reproduced Autobiogranhy 

i p.l8. 

( 2) 'Mrs. Rowlapd Ord.is h by H. S. (There is a 

finished portrait which I gave to them)'. 

Pencil drawing. [c.l84-l-4.] (On a 

sheet 18.5 x 14.5 cm.) Reproduced 

Duncan p.-38. 

(1) N.B. The identifications in the list are made from 

annotations in the volume, some of which are in 

Spencer's hand.

26 

• 

Portraits, drawings, photographs 

MS.791/354 (cont.) 

r.s 

(1) 

(2) 

Photograph of pencil portrait of 

Tho~as Spencer (by HS, 1839). [n.d.J. 

Photograph of bust of Thomas Spencer 

(by HS, 1842). [n .d.]_ 

f.6 

Blank 

[Self-portrait by HS 

n.d.J 26.5 x 19 cm. 

Pencil and water-colour. 

f.9 

f.lO 

f.ll 

Ten drawings of insects. Noted 'Drawings by 

H.S .. aet .10-13' [1830-31. Pencil, ink, and 

water-colour. 

Seven drawings of a caterpillar and insects. 

Noted 'Drawings by H.S~ aet.l0-13' (1830-3]. 

Pencil, ink, and water-colour. 

Three drawings of caterpillars and insects. 

Noted 'Drawings by H.S~ aet.l0-13' [1830-3]. 

Pencil~ ink, and water-colour. 

'Charles Fox's House at Watford - 

by H.S~ ••• 1834'. 18 x 29.5 cm. 

water-colour 

!.12 Two drawings (l) of a shell; (2) of a plant. 

Noted 'H.S •. about 1836'. 

f.l3 (l) Print of HS aged 46. [n.d.l 

Reproduced Duncan p.l27. 

(2) Print of HS aged 19 (from the drawing by 

Talfourd - see next item, f.l4). Ln.d.] 

f.l4 Herbert Spencer. Pencil portrait by Field 

Talfourd. [c.l839] 22 x 14 cm. 

Reproduced Duncan p.26. 'This portrait of 

me taken when I was about 19 1/2 was from 

the pencil · of Field Talfourd one of our 

B. & G. [Birmingham and Gloucester Railwayl 

Staff.' A pencilled note has been erased. 

f.l5 Two 'drawings [of bridges] by HS about 1840-42'. 

Pen and wash (1) 10 x 20 cm.; (2) 9 x 21 cm. 

f.l6 Photograph of HS aged 38. 1858. 

f.l7 Caricature portrait of BS entitled 'Philosophy' 

by 'CG' Vanity Fair 26 Apr.l879. 

f.l8 Photograph of a room in the house at Avenue Rd., 

Regents Park. 'About 1892-95'· [There is 

an unidentified woman included in the 

photograph.] 

f.l9 Two photographs of HS _ 'at Avenu~ 

Rd'.

27 

Portraits, dsawings, photographs 

MS.791/354 (cont.) 

f.20 (l) Print of HS 'about 1894, Avenue Rd.' 

Reproduced Duncan frontispiece. 

(2) Reproduction from a photograph of HS 

'at Brighton'. [n.d.] 

f.2l Photograph of 5 Percival Terrace, Brighton. 

[n.d.] 

f.22 (1) Photograph of HS aged 78 [c.l898l. 

Reproduced Autobiography ii, 

frontispiece. 

(2) Photograph of HS 'Aet. over 70 at 

Brighton'. 

f-23 Three photographs of HS's bust by 

E.Ons~ow Ford. (Bust made in 1896.) 

ff.24 Blank 

-5 

f.26 (1) Harriet Spencer ().Portrait by 

W.G.Spencer (). Pencil on ivory. 

Approx 12 x 10 cm. 

Noted by HS 'I believe this was a 

portrait of my mother when she was 

young which my father commenced'. 

(2) W.G.Spencer. Self-portrait. Pencil on 

ivory. Approx 11 x 9 cm. 

'W.G.Spencer when about 28 1 [c.l818]. 

Reproduced Autobiography i p.52. 

Both the above portraits are mounted in the 

inside of the lower cover of the volume.

28 

• 

10. 

MS.791/355/l 

MS.791/355/2 

MS.79l/355/3 

Exercise-book compiled by F.E.Lott [c.l904], 

containing:· 

ff.l-2 

ff.9-ll 

ff.l2-23 

Abstracts of letters to HS from:: 

Lord Derby (1864), T.H.Huxley 

(1877), R.Owen (1852), 

J.Tyndall (n.d.), and 

A.R.Wallace (1876). One letter 

·from each. 

Abstracts of 6 letters to 

E.Lott, 1854, 1868, 1873, 1876; 

abstract of one letter to Miss 

P.Lott, 1886; abstracts (with 

quotations and ~otes by F.E.Lott) 

of 46 letters and postcards to 

F.E.Lott, 1887-95 (30 letters\ 

1897-1903 (16 letters). 

Abstracts (with quotations) of 

19 letters from W.Troughton to 

F.E.Lott, May-Dec.l903. 

'Reminiscences of Herbert Spencer 

by Frank E.Lott•. 

Quoted Duncan pp.497, 505. 

'Extracts' (referring to HS) from Frederic 

Harrison's work Geor e Washin on and 

other American addresses 1901 1 • Copied 

by Harrison's wife. 5 leaves. 

Enclosed with letter from Harrison to 

HS, 20 Nov.l90l (MS.791/287). 

See also MS-791/355/9. 

[Reminiscences of HS by W.Troughton. 

Between 1903 and 1908.] TS with MS 

corrections. The account is incomplete, 

and some pages or parts of pages have 

been removed. 47 leaves (lacking ff.3, 

11, and 13). 

Quoted Duncan (see index ther~to]. 

( 1) 

These items had been nu~bered 1 to 10, before their 

acquisition from the Athenaeum, and are listed. here 

in that order. · They-&Pe contained in a box 

lettered 'Reminiscences of Herbert Spencer'.

29 

Biographical reminiscences of HS 

MS.791/355/4- 

MS.791/355/5 

MS-791/355/6 

MS.791/355/7 

MS.791/355/8 

MS.791/355/9 

Notebook lettered 'About Carlyle (Dictated 

by Spencer)'. [The front cover of the 

notebook contains printed calendars for 

1882 and 1883.] 32 leaves (3 blank). 

The account is written in longhand on the 

rectos of ff.l-29, shorthand on versos of 

ff.l-15. The shorthand version appears 

to break off at a point corresponding to 

i.l8 of the longhand. 

'Some personal reminiscences [of HS] by 

Edith Killick. • [Between 1903 and 1908] 

17 leaves. 

Quoted Duncan [see index thereto]. 

[An intellectual autobiography by Herbert 

Spencer, headed 'This was Y~itten 

sometime about 1870 at the request of 

Youmans with a view to some purpose o.f 

his in the N[]S.) (The following is a 

copy made in 1882 from the rough draft).' 

Covers the development of Spencer's 

thought from about 1842 to about 1870.] 

1882. 39 leaves. 

The above essay appears to contain some 

details t -hat are not 'included in the 

.Autobiographye 

'1889-94 Miss Charlotte Shickle's 

reminiscences [of HSl.' n.d. 

[Possibly a record of a conversation 

with Miss Shickle. With extensive notes 

(by W. Trough ton). J . 2 leaves. 

Miss Shickle is quoted Duncan p.505, but 

the quotation is not from these 

'reminiscences'. 

(Reminiscences of HS] by Francis Galton, 

28 June 1904. Extensively corrected and 

altered. 8 leaves. 

· Quoted Duncan pp.501-2, 508-9. [The 

first draft of these reminiscences is 

printed in K.Pearson - The life, letters 

and labours of Francis Galton iiib (1930) 

pp.626-8. There are many references to 

Spencer in this work.l 

'Memoranda as to Rerbert Spencer by Frederic 

Harrison. Part I. 1860-1870. • 

(Between 1903 and 1908] Includes copy 

o.f letter, E3, 3 .A.pr.l867, to Harrison. 

2 ieaves. 

_See also MS-791/355/2

30 

Biographical reminiscences of HS 

MS-791/355/10 

[Reminiscences of HS by Kate Courtney.] 

Dated from 15 Cheyne Walk, 10 Mar.l905. 

Not signed. Addressed to [D.] Duncan. 

6 leaves. 

Quoted Duncan [see index thereto]· 

Together with a letter (formerly pinned 

to f.4), 'Kate Courtney of Penwith', 

15 Cheyne Walk, 19 June 1905. 

To [D.] Duncan. 

11. Newspaper cuttings 

MS.791/356/l-6 

Six volumes of newspaper cuttings, mostly 

from British and American periodicals~ 

nearly all identified by name of 

newspaper and date. Details as follows: 

1. Dec.l903. Death and obituaries of HS. lOO pp. 

(with index of newspapers). 

2. 

Dec.l903 (a few of Jan.-June 19~+) (1). Dea~h 

and obituaries of HS. 100 pp. 

4. 

Dec.l903- Feb.l904 (a few of Sept.l904) (1). j' 

Death and obituaries of TIS. lOO pp.o, 

(with index of newspapers). 

Jan.-Aug.l904; Death, will, and Autobiograp~y 

of HS. 200 pp. (scme blank). 

May -sept.l908. Duncan's Life and letters of 

Herbert Spencer. 200 pp. (some 

blank). With 10 loose cutti~gs 

attached to press-cutting agencies' 

forms addressed to H.Tedder. 

6. M~- July 1908 (a few of 1910-13, 1926-7). 

Duncan's Life and letters; Sp~ncer's 

Autobiograp~y (republished, 1926); 

other matters of Spencer interest. 

200 pp. (about 140 blank). 

12. lierbert Spencer Trustees 

MS.79l/357 'A.K•. 3. Minutes of meetings of Mr.Herbert 

1 

Spencer r s Trustees I • Sept .1905 - Oct .19;6. 

With some items inserted. About 200 pp. 

(40 blank). 

( 1) 2 and 3 are lettered on the spines 'H.SP&~CER - LIFE. 

vol.I' [and 'vol.II'].

31 

13. List of other Spencer material at Senate House 

1. In University of London Library: 

a. R.Spencer, 340 Strand, 31 May 1852. 

To Robert Chambers. A.L.~6. 

b. H.Spencer, 37 Queen's Gardens, 11 Nov.l872. 

To [G.H.Lewes]. A.L.217/3. 

c. H.Spencer, 38 Queen's Gardens, 28 Apr.l874. 

To [-].._ A.L •. 468. 

d. H.Spencer, Bristol Hotel, Brighton, 

25 Jan.l878. To 'Mr.Williams' [a 

bookseller]. A.L.~l2. 

e. H.Spencer, 38 Queen's Gardens, 28 Jan.l881. 

LS, to Mrs.Charles Booth. Booth 

Collectiont b3.7q7/I/6044. 

2. In University of London Archives: 

H.Spencer, 5 Percival Terrace, Brighton, 

30 Mar.1903. To Sir A.W.Rucker, 

Principal of the University of London. 

[Not in Spencer's hand~] In a file in 

the University of London Archives - . 

'1902-1903, 503'· 

Quoted (~rom 

a copy) Duncan p.467. 

1J-. •• 

,

32 

Ill. 

Index of Names 

N .B.. 

References are to it.em numbers, unless 

preceded by 'p[ age]'. 1 

354 f. [-]' 

indicates a portrait or photograph. 

Persons are in DNB except when 

(1) otherwise stated; (2) dates of 

birth and death are not given. Most 

of the-n-ames are mentioned in Duncan. 

Abbreviations used in index: 

DAmB 

DNE 

www 

Dictionary of American Biograp~y 

1928 etc. 

Dictionary of National Biography 

Who Was Who [various dates] 

Aberdare, Lord 

. see BruGe (H.A.) 

Adler (Herman) 1839-1911 

Airy (Sir George Biddell) 1801-92 

Al1en (Charles Grant Blairfindie) 1848-99 

Allman (George James) 1812-98 

Arg7ll, 8th Duke of 

see Campbell (G.D.) 

Argyll, Dowager Duchess of 

see McNeill (Ina) 

Athenaeum 

see Webster (J.C .. ) 

Avebury, Lord 

see Lubbock (John) 

Babbage (Charles) lJ92-l871 

Bain (Alexander) 1810-77 

Bat~s (Henry Walter) 1825-92 

Beecher (Henry Ward) 1813-87 

(DAmE] 

Belper, Lord 

see Strutt (E.) 

Bemrose (Sir Henry Howe) 1827-1911 

[WWVJ 1897-1916] 

217 

45, 66 

102, 104-, 108, 

117-8, 123-4, 

126, 134, 154 

258 

22 (from HS); 

67, 115 

65 

70 

261

33 

Bennet (Lady Ida L.), afterwards 

Marchioness of Dalhousie 

(DNB, under Ramsay (G.)] 

Bernays (Edward) ) ~~~·-A- ~- 1!. . 

Bernays (John A.) J 

Black (William) 1841-98 

Blakeney (Edward Henry) d.l955 

[WWW 1951-60] 

Blind (Karl) 1826-1907 

Blunt (Wilfrid Scawen) 1840-1922 

Boehm (Sir Joseph E.) lst Bt., 1834-90 

- J--- 

Botha (Louis) 1862-1919 

Brabazon (R~), 

~ ~~ .. _., ;_ - 

_1~2~th~-E~ar~l 

328 

319 

127 

149 

205 

206, 335 

177, 184 

294 

__ o_f __ w_ie_a_t_h, 1841-1929 210 

Brett (John) 151 

Bright (John) 1811-89 10 (to T. 

Spencer), 

152, 161 

British Museum (Library) 

see Fortescue (G.K.) 

Brodrick (George Charles) 1831-1903 

Browne (Sir James Crichton-) 1840-1938 

Bruce (Henry Austin), 1st Baron Aberdare, 

1815-95 

Buchanan (Robert) 

(R.W.Buchanan, 1841-1901] 

Buckle (Henry Thomas) 1821-62 

Bu1wer-Lytton (Edward G.E.L.) 

see Lytton (E.G.E.L.Bulwer-) 

Burdett-Coutts (A.G.) 

see Coutts (Angela 

G.Burdett-) 

Burden-Sanderson (Sir J.s.) 

see Sanderson (Sir J-.S . .Bur-d.on-) 

Buzzard (Thomas) 1831-1919 

. [WWW 1916-28] 

211 

180 

200 

331 

42, 52 

351 

Calderon (Philip H.) 1833-98 

Campbell (George D.), 8th Duke of Argyll, 

1823-1900 

Carly1e (Thomas) 1795-1881 

Carnegie (Andrew) 1835-l919 

300 and note, 

314- 

201 

225, 256, 272 

355/4- 

267, 312, 315

34 

Carpenter (William Benjamin) 1813-1885 

Chambers (Robert) 1802-71 

Charteris (F.R.), lOth Earl of Wem,yss, 

(formerly Lord Elcho),l818-1914 

Clark (Sir Andrew), lst Bt., 1826-93 

[Burke's Peerage (1970)] 

40, 53 

58; letter to, 

p.31 

173 

155, 214 

Clerk-Maxwell (J.) 

see Maxwell (J.Clerk-) 

Clodd (Edward) 1840-1930 

Cobden (Richard) 1804-65 

Conway (Moncure Daniel) 1832-1907 

[DAmE] 

Courtney (Kate) 

see Potter (Kate) 

Courtney (Mrs. L.H.) 

see Potter (Kate) 

Coutts (.A.ngela G.Burde.tt-), Baroness 

Burdett-Coutts, 1814-1906 

Crabbe (George) 1785-1857 

[son of the poet] 

Crichton-Browne (Sir J.) 

see Brovme (Sir J.Crichton-) 

Cross (John Walter) 

[Dim, under Cross (Marian)] 

Cross (Marian) 

see Eliot (George) 

Dalhou si e, La.d;r 

see Bennet (Lady Ida L.) 

Dalhousie, Lord 

see Ramsay (J.W.) 

Da1ton (Frederick T.) 1855~1927 

[~ 1916-28] 

Darwin (Charles Robert) 1809-82 

Darwin (Sir Francis) 1848-1925 

Darwin (Sir George Howard) 184-5-1912 

De la Beche (Sir Henry T.) 1796-1855. 

[DNB, under Beche] 

De Morgan (William Frend) 1839-1917 

276 

5, 6, 8, g, 

(to T.Spencer) 

254-, 325 

170, 175 · 

3 (to T. 

Spencer) 

148, 185 

241 

41, 47, 51, 80, . 

lll, 322 

279, 286, 347 

168, 230 

32 

142-3

35 

Derby, Lord 

see Stanley 

Derby, Lad:z: 

see West (Mary C.) 

Douglas 

( John S.), 8th Marquess of 

Qieensberry, 1844-1900 

Duncan (David) 1839-1923 

[W\"'W 1916-28] 

Dyer (Si~ William T. Thiselton-) 1843-1928 

Eliot (George-), pseud [i.e. Marian Evans, 

afterwards Lewes, afterwards 

Cross], 1819-80 

El1icott (Charles J.), 

Bishop of Gloucester, 1819-1905 

332 

351, 355/10 

(letters to); 

356/5-6 

344 

136, 147 

119, 188 

Evans (Marian) 


'Executors' (recipients of letters) 

Farrer (Sir Thomas Henry), Bt., 

--rst Baron Farrer,~819-99- 

Fawcett (Henry) 1833-84 

Fiske (John) 1842-1901 

[DAmR] 

Fitch (Sir Joshua Gir1ing) 1824-1903 

Flower (Sir William Henry) 1831-99 

Ford (Edward Onslow) 1852-1901 

Fortescue (George K.) 1847-1912 

Foster (Sir Michael) 1836-1907 

Fox (A.Lane) 

Frankland (Sir Edward) 1825-99 

Fraser (Alexander Campbell) 1819-1914 

Fremantle (William H.) 1831-1916 

[WWW 1916-28] 

Froude (James Anthony) 1818-94 

Fry (Sir Edward) 1827~1918 

Fyfe (Henry Hamilton) 1869-1951 

Gabba (~. (-]) 

Galton (Sir Francis) 1822-1911 

Garnett (Richard) 1835-1906 

p.24 

178 

169 

79 and note, 

107' 116, 162, 

166 

277 

196 

270, 354 f.23 

306 

337 

106 

250 

-43 

208 

56, 326 

221 

240 

21 (from HS) 

232, 355/8 

338

36 

• 

Geddy (P.) 

268 

Gibbs (Philip) 

Giffen (Sir Robert) 1837-1910 

Gladstone (William Ewart) 1809-98 

Gloucester and Bristol, Bishop of 

see Ellicott (C.J.) 

296 

187, 247 

·ss, 95, 114, 

120, 139, 164-, 

243. See also 

96, 160 

Godley (John A.), lst Baron Kilbracken,184-7- 96, 160 

1932 (writing on behalf of 

W.E. G1adstone) 

Gomperz (Theodor) 1832- 

Gowers (Sir William R.) 1845-1915 

Greg (Wi1liam Rathbone) 1809-81 

Grey (Sir George) 1812-98 

Grate (George) 1794-1871 

Gull (Sir William W. ), Bt., 1816-90 

Guyot (Yves) 184-3~1928 

[Grand Larousse Encyclopedigue 

196o-64J 

Haeckel (Ernst H.P.A.) 1834-1919 

[Neue Deutsche Biographie 1953 etc.] 

231 

239 

26 

167, 172 

50 and note, 

71-2 

153 

174 

73, 238 

Hale1 (:f!lie) 1870-1937 

Encyclopaedia Britannica (1967)] 

Hamilton (Louisa C.), afterwards Tyndall 

[DNB under Tyndall (J.)] 

Hamilton Fyfe (H.) 

see Fyfe (H.llamilton) 

Hardy (Sir William Bate) 1864-1934 

Harrison (Frederic) 1831-1923 

Heape (Wa1ter) 1855-1929 

[ www 1929-40] 

Heathorn (Henrietta .A.), afterwards Huxley 

(DNB under Huxley (T.H.)J 

Helps (Sir Arthur) 1813-75 

Herbert (Auberon E. i:'J. M. ) 1838-1906 

Herbert (George R.C.)~ · 

Pe~broke, 1350-95 

13th Earl of 

292 

288, 301, 

see also 2.24 

245-6 

219, 282, 287' . 

302, 355/2, ·l 

355/9. Letter 

from HS, p.2 

280 

336, 350 

81, 352 

348 

159

Herschel (Sir John F .. W .. ) 1792-1871 

Hewins (iililliam A.S.) 1865-1931 

Hirst (Thomas Archer) 1830-92 

Hobhouse (Arthur), Baron Hobhouse, 

1819-1904 

Hodgson (l:7illiam Earl) d.1910 

[ flWW 1897-1916J 

Holden (Edward Singleton) 1846-1914 

[DAmB] 

Holland (Sir Henry~ Bt. 1788-1873 

Holme (Charles) 1848-1923 

Holmes (Oliver Wendell) 1809-94 

[DArnB] 

Holyoake (George Jacob) 1817-1906 

36, 57 

262 

141 

290 

291 

204- 

44- 

letters to, p.24 

186, 195, 218 

228, 283, 310 

Hooker (Sir Joseph Dalton) ~817-1911 

Houghton, I.ord 

see Lilnes (R al~Ionckton-) 

264, 289, 313 

Hudson (V/illiam Henry) ~-:-:~ [.Uz-,q tiJ. 252, 305, 349 

Hunt (Jame$ Henry Leigh) 1784-1859 

Rutton (Richard Halt) 1826-97 

Huxley (Henrietta A.) 

see Heathorn (H.A.) 

30 

29 

Huxley (Leonard) 1860-193j 

Huxley (Thomas Henry) 1825-95 

- Jevons (William Stanley) 1835-82 

Jowett (Benjamin) 1817-93 

Judd (John Wesley) 1840-1916 

[WW'~V 1916-28] 

Kaneko (Kentaro) 

Kelvin, Lord 

see Thomson (W.) 

Kilbracken, Lord 

see Godley (J.A.) 

Killick ( Eciith) 

Kingsley (Charles) 1819-75 

Knight ( Nilliar:J. Angu.s) 1836-1916 

[~=i~ 'i t'i 1916-28] 

Knowles (§ir James Thomas) 1831-1908 

339 

15 (from HS) ; 

60, 61 a;Jd note, 

76, 82, 109~ p.28 

85, 131, 146 

59 

207 

216 

355/5 

55 

309 

91 and note; 

197, 236 

$). I) 

L .

38 

Landor (Ralter Savage) 1775-18~~ 

Lawson (Sir Wilfrid), 2nd Bt.,1826-1906 

Lecky (William E.H.) 1838-1903 

Lewes (George Henry) 1817-78 

Lewes (ll:iarian) 


Lewis (Sir George Cornewall) 1806-63 

Liberty and Property Defence League 

Lintou (t~s.Eliza Lynn) 1822-98 

Littr~ (M.P.E.) 1801-81 

[Grand Larousse Encyclopedigue 

1960-64J 

Lott (Edward) 

Lott (Frank E.) 

Lott (JJiss P.)[sister of F.E.Lott] 

Lowe (Robert), 1st Viscount Sherbrooke, 

1811-92 

Lubbock (John), 1st Baron .hvebury, 

183'+-1912 

Lyall (Sir Alfred Comyn) 1835-1911 

Lyell (Sir Charles), Bt., 1797-1875 

Lytton (Edward G.E.L.Bulwer~), 

Lytton, 1803-73 , 

MacBride (~'rnest \'1. ) 1866-1940 

[ iN '~·!W 1929-40] 

1st Baron 

ltiackay (Donald J.), 11th Baron Rea.y, 

1839-1921 

McNeill (Ina)Jafterwards Duchess of Argyll 

Mallock ( ~illiam Hurrell) 1849-1923 

Manchester, Lord 

see Viontagu (W. D.) 

Martineau (James) 1805-1900 

Massingham (Henry ;,{:.) 1860-1924 

Masson (David) 1822~1907 

Max MUller (Friedrich) 1823-1900 

7 (to T.Spencer) 

293 

133, 263 

37, 39, 324; 

letter to, p.31 

35 

173 

222-3 

83 

355/1 

letters 

355/1 

to, p.24 

355/1 (letter to) 

90 

64, 226, 308 

110, 181 

31, 49 

25 

244 

235 

307 

265 and note, 

295 

157 

275 

233, 260 

86, 320 

......

39 

• 

Maxwell (James Clerk-) 1831-79 

92, 93, 103 

Meath, Lord 

see Brabazon (R.) 

Meldola (Raphael) 1849-1915 

[WWW 1897-1915 Addenda to 

4th ed .. (1953) J 

Miall (Charles S.) 

Mill (John Stuart) 1806-73 

Mi1nes (R.Monckton-), lst Baron Houghton, 

1809-85 

Monckton-Mi1nes (R.) 

see Milnes (R.Monckton-) 

Montagu (Wil1iam D.), 7th Duke of 

Manchester, 1823-90 

[G.E.C., The Com£lete Peerage, 

1910 etc.] 

Moorsom (Wil1iam Scarth) 1804-63 

Morgan (Conwy Lloyd) 1852-1936 

Morley (John), Viscount Morley, 1838-1923 

Morley (Samuel) 1809-86 

Muller (F.Max) 

see Max Muller (F.) 

Murchison (Sir Roderick Impey) 1792-1871 

Murray (John) 1808-92 

Ordish (Mrs.Rowland) 

Ouless ('.'lal ter Willia:m) 1848-1933 

Owen (Sir Richard) 1804-92 

Parry (Sir (Charles) Hubert H.), Bt., 

-1848-1918 

Peel (Sir Robert), 2nd Bt., 1788-1850 

Pelly (Sir Lewis) 1825-92 

Pembroke, Lord 

see Herbert (G.R.C.) 

Pl~yfair 

(Lyon), lst Baron Playfair, 

1818-98 

Pollock (Sir Frederick) 

( 3·~Bt., 1845-1937] 

340 

253 

48, 

8, 

323 

158 

23 

269 

63, 68, 

84 

19 (from HS); 

8, 128, 144, 

248, 285, 

316-7 

28 

34 

212 

354 f .4 

274 

27, 33, 

p.28' 

346 

4 (to -T. 

Spencer) 

189 

255 

132 

·l 

l l

t 

40 

Porro (Prof. - ) 

Potter (Beatrice), afterwards 

Mrs. Sidney 'Nebb, 1858-1943 

[DNB under Webb (s. J .. ) J 

Potter (Kate), afterwards 

Mrs. Leonard Courtne~ 

[DNB under Courtney (L.H. ] 

21 (from HS) 

156a, 213, 

297-8, 345 

318, 355/10 

'Problematical Thinker' 

see Lewes (G.H.) - 324 

Proctor (Richard A.) 1837~88 

Queensberry, Lord 

see Douglas (J.S.) 

Ramsay (Ida), Marchioness of Dalhousie 

see Bennet (Lady Ida L.) 

Ramsay (John W.), 13th Earl of Da1housie, 

1847-87 

[ DNB under Rams ay (G. ) ] 

Ranyard (Arthur Cowper) 1845-94 

Reay, Lord 

see Mackay (D.J.) 

Rendel (Stuart), Baron Rendel, 1834-1913 

[WWW 1897-1916] 

Ribot (Theodule A.) [1839-1916] 

[Grand Larousse Encyclop~digue 

1960-64] 

Roberts (Isaac) 1829-1904 

Robertson (George Croom) 1842-92 

Rol1eston (George) 1829-81 

Romanes (George John) 1848-94 

RU.cker (Sir Arthur W.) 1848-1915 

[~WW 1897-1915 Addenda (4th ed.l953)] 

Salvadori (Guglie1mo [or Wi1liam]) 

Sanderson (Sir John S.Burdon-), 1st Bt., 

1828-1905 

Sanderson (Thomas H.), Baron Sanderson, 

184-1-1923 

Sayee (Archibald Henry) 1845-1933 

Sedgwick (Adam) 1785-1873 

Sedgwick (Adam) 1854-1913 

Sharp (David) l&'+0-1922 

[_WVvW 1916-28] 

191, 198, 329 

215 

273, 303-4 

75 

278 

156b 

140 

122, 330 

letter to, 

p.31 

281, 299, 341 

229 

101 

145, 183, 190 

38 

237, 251, 266, 

271 

227 

,,

41 

• 

Sherbrooke, Lord 

see Lowe-(H.) 

Shick1e (C~arlotte) 

Sidgwick (Henry) 1838-1900 

Smith (Goldwin) 1823-1910 

Spencer (Catherine) 

[grandmother of HS] 

Spencer (Harriet) 

[wife of W.G.Spencer] 

Spencer (Herbert) 1820-1903 

Spencer (John P.), 5th Earl Spencer, 

1835-1910 

Spencer (Thomas) 1796-1853 

Spencer (William George) 1790-1866 

Stanley, Lord 

see· Stanley (E.H.) 

Stanley (Edward George G.S.), 

14th Earl of Derby, 1799-1869 

Stanley (Edward Henry), 15th Earl of Derby, 

1826-93 

Stephen (Sir Leslie) 1832-1904 

Sterling (John Barton) 1840-1926 

[YIJ!J!. 1916-28] 

Strutt (E.), lst Baron Belper, 1801-80 

Swinburne (Algern9n Charles) 1837-1909 

Talfourd (Field) 1815-74 

[F .Boase. Mode_rn English Biograp~ vi 

(1965)] - 

Tansley (Sir Arthur George) 1871-1955 

Tedder (Henry Richard) 1850-1924 

[\HVW 1916-28] 

Tennant (Dorothy~ afterwards Lady Stanley 

[Dlffi under Stanley (H.M.)] 

355/7 

209, 259 

62, 234 

354 f.4 

12 (from 

W. G. Spencer); 

354 ff.2 and 26 

passim, and: 

11, pp. 2_-3 

[items] 355/4, 

355/6 

193 

1, 2 (to W.G. 

Spencer); 3-10 

(letters to); 

24, 354 f.5 

12 (to Harriet 

Spencer); 53 

and p.2 (from 

Herbert 

Spence:r) ; 69, 

354 ff.l, 2 

and 26. 

p.28 

46, 137, 163 

242 

121 

150 

354 f.l4 

249 

199, 311, 34-2 

356/5 

333

42 

• 

Thiselton-Dyer (Sir W.T.) 

see Dyer (Sir W.T.Thiselton-) 

Thompson (Sir Henry) 1820-1904 343 

Thompson (Silvanus Phil1ips) 1851-1916 220 

Thomson (William), Baron Kelvin, 203 

1824·-1907 

Times, The (Editor of) 

see 240, 241 

Tollemache (Lionel Arthur) 1838-1919 

[WWW 1916-28] 

Troughton (Walter) 

[Spencer's secretary] 

Trustees (Herbert S~encer) 

Tuke (Daniel Hack) 1827-95 

Tylor (Sir Edward Burnett) 1832-1917 

Tyndall (John) 1820-93 

Tyndall (Louisa C.) 

see Hamilton (Louisa C.) 

176 

p.24 (letters 

to)_; 

355/1, 

355/3, 355/7 

357 

202 

97 

18 (from HS); 

77 and note, 

94, 113, 125, 

224, 321' 327, 

334, p.28 

Wal1ace (Alfred Russell) 1823-1913 

Ward (Lester Frank) 1841-1913 

[DAmE] 

Webb (Beatrice) 

see Potter (B.) 

Webste·r (James Claude) 

[Secretary of the Athenaeum] 

Wemyss, Lord 

see Charteris (F.R.) 

West (Mary C.) afterwards Lady Salisbury, 

afterwards Ladt Der~1 

[DNB under StanleyE.H.) 

Williams (Mr.) [Bookseller] 

257 

74, 98-9 

16, 17 (from 

HS); lOO, 101

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