Guide to the Harriet Martineau Papers, 1800-1994 (bulk 1821-1875)
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Guide to the Harriet Martineau Papers, 1800-1994 (bulk 1821-1875)
Collection number: BANC MSS 92/754 z
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Title: Harriet Martineau Letters, 1832-1850,Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 90/60 z
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| 1802 | Birth of Harriet Martineau in Norwich, Norfolk, 12 June. |
| 1805 | Her brother James is born. |
| 1809 | First reads Milton. |
| 1813-14 | With her sister Rachel, attends the Reverend Isaac Perry's School, Norwich. Early signs of deafness. |
| 1818-19 | Spends fifteen months at a school for girls in Bristol run by her aunt, Mrs. Robert Rankin. |
| 1820 | Ear trumpet needed. |
| 1822 | Publication of first article in the Unitarian Monthly Repository: Female Writers on Practical Divinity. |
| 1824 | Death of her eldest brother, Thomas, who had encouraged her writing. |
| 1825-6 | National economic crisis, damaging the Martineau manufacturing business. |
| 1826 | Death of Harriet's father, Thomas Martineau. Harriet engaged to her brother James's college friend, John Hugh Worthington, who becomes suddenly ill and then insane. |
| 1827 | Worthington dies. Harriet discovers political economy, and writes tales such as The Rioters and Principle and Practice. |
| 1829 | Final collapse of the family business. William Johnson Fox pays her 15 pounds a year for regular contributions to the Monthly Repository. |
| 1830-1 | Wins all three prizes in an essay competition run by the British and Foreign Unitarian Association to present Unitarianism to Catholics, Jews, and Mohammedans. |
| 1831 | Visits James in Dublin, and plans her Illustrations of Political Economy. Exhaustive hunt for publishers in London. |
| 1832 | Publication by Charles Fox of the first of her Illustrations, Life in the Wilds (February). Instant success. Moves to London. Illustrations appear monthly until 1834. Martineau is lionized. |
| 1833-4 | Poor Laws and Paupers Illustrated (4 parts), commissioned by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. |
| 1834 | Illustrations of Taxation. |
| 1834-6 | Departs for America in August 1834 with travelling companion, Louisa Jeffrey. Travels widely; meets key abolitionists. |
| 1836-9 | Returns to London. Publishes her observations in Society in America and a more personal version of her visit, Retrospect of Western Travel. |
| 1839 | Publishes a novel, Deerbrook. Visits Europe and falls ill in Italy. Brought home by her brother, James. |
| 1840-4 | Ill at Tynemouth, suffering from a prolapsed uterus and polypous tumor. Convinced she is about to die, but continues writing: The Hour and the Man (1841), The Playfellow (1841), and Life in the Sick-Room (1844). Mesmerized for the first time on 22 June 1844. |
| 1845 | Believes she has been cured by mesmerism (hypnotism). Publishes Letters on Mesmerism in the Athenaeum and Dawn Island, an anti-Corn Law tale. Asks friends to destroy her letters. Meets Henry George Atkinson. |
| 1845-46 | Purchases lot in Ambleside, plans and builds her home, The Knoll. Writes Forest and Game Law Tales. |
| 1846-7 | Travels to Egypt and the Holy Land with Mr. and Mrs. Richard Vaughan Yates, a Unitarian philanthropist, and Joseph Ewart of Liverpool. |
| 1848 | Publishes Eastern Life, Present and Past. Death of her mother at age 76. Begins lectures to Ambleside working class, and organizes a building society for them. |
| 1849 | The History of England during the Thirty Years' Peace and Household Education published. |
| 1850 | Invited by Dickens to contribute Household Words. Visit from Charlotte Brontë. |
| 1851 | Publishes Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development, with Henry G. Atkinson. Her agnosticism becomes a public issue. Breaks with her brother James over his hostile review, Mesmeric Atheism, in the Prospective Review. |
| 1852 | Visit from Mary Ann Evans [George Eliot]. Begins writing articles for the Daily News. |
| 1853 | Translates and condenses Comte's Positive Philosophy. |
| 1855 | Publishes her Complete Guide to the English Lakes. Feeling unwell again, goes to London for medical consultation. Convinced this is a different illness from her earlier one, and she has an enlarged heart. Expects imminent death. Writes her Autobiography, but does not publish it. The Factory Controversy: A Warning Against Meddling Legislation. |
| 1857 | British Rule in India. |
| 1858 | Contributes articles to the Edinburgh Review (until 1868). Suggestions Towards the Future Government of India. |
| 1859 | Writes articles for Once A Week (until 1865). |
| 1861 | Health, Husbandry, and Handicraft. |
| 1866 | Stops contributing to the Daily News. Signs petition on women's suffrage presented to Parliament. |
| 1869 | Campaigns against the extension of the Contagious Diseases Act, which was finally amended in 1871. Biographical Sketches. |
| 1876 | Death of Harriet Martineau in Ambleside, 27 June. |
| 1877 | Publication of her Autobiography, with Memorials by Maria Weston Chapman. |
SERIES 1: HARRIET MARTINEAU CORRESPONDENCE, 1821-1875, n.d.
OUTGOING LETTERS, 1821-1875, n.d.
Additional Note
Anti-Corn League, Chairman of the Council 1845
[Arnold ?] [1845-46?]
Atkinson, Henry G. 1850-75
Atkinson, Mrs. 1855
Bacon, Miss n.d.
Beaufort, the Misses 1858
Bell, Mr. 1865
Bennett, W. C. n.y.
Bensusan, Mrs. [ca. 1848], n.d.
Bishop, Mr. 1853
Bogue, Mr. n.d.
Bowditch, Mary 1836
Boyle, Miss 1845
Brand, R. H. 1867
Briggs, Miss n.d.
Bright, Henry A. 1853-62
Bright, Henry A. [1859-69, n.d.]
Brooks, Rev. Charles n.d.
Brougham, Henry Lord 1833
[Bruce, Henry Austen] 1862
Bruce, Mrs. n.d.
Bryant, William Cullen 1836-54
Buchan, Countess of n.d.
Cabot, Susan [1836]
Callcott, Augustus Wall [1833 or 1834]
Campbell, Mrs. [1850-55]
Carlyle, Thomas & Jane 1840
Carlyle, Thomas n.d.
Carnegy, Miss [184-?]
Carpenter, Miss [1852]
Carter, Mrs. n.d.
Chambers, Mssrs. 1858
Chapman, John [1850-57]
Clayton, Miss 1840
Clive, Mr. n.d.
Coe, Mrs. [1827]
Colinache, Madame 1842
Collins, Mr. [James A. Collins, Boston Abolitionist] n.d.
[Combe, George ?] [1857]
Committee of the Tynemouth Literary & Philosophical Institution 1841
Darbishire, Francis 1826
[Darwin, Catherine ?] n.d. [1861-62?]
Davy, Mrs. n.d.
[Davy ?], Margaret [1845]
Dodd, Miss n.d.
Elgin, Lady 1867
Evans, Mr. 1863
Fenwick, Miss [1845]
Ferguson, John 1835
Fields & Osgood 1870
Fisher, Mrs. John n.y.
[Fletcher, Mrs. ?] n.y.
Flower, Edward Fordham 1861-62
Flower, Eliza 1831-43
Follen, Charles 1836
[Forster ?], Frances 1875
[Forster, William Edward] 1873
Foss, Mrs. n.d., [1830's]
Fox, Charles 1832-[1840]
Fox, Mrs. Eliza [1838]-1857
Fox, William Johnson 1828-29
Fox, William Johnson 1830-57
Garrison, William Lloyd 1855-67
Gaskell, Mrs. n.d.
Gilman, Mr. [1835]
Goldsmid, Miss 1861
Gordon, Mrs. 1855
[Greg], Percy [1848-49]
Graves, Mrs. [1859]
Hall, Mrs. Samuel Carter n.y.
Hammersley, James Ashbury 1847
Harness, Rev. William [1841-42]
[Harrison, Benson] n.y.
Hawes, Benjamin [1839-40]
Hayward, Abraham 1839
Hennell, Sara 1857-59
Heywood, Benjamin 1833
Hickson, Mrs. [1830's]
Hill, Frederick [1834]
Hill, Mrs. Roland 1852
Holt, Miss 1873
Holyoake, [George Jacob] [1855]
Homer, Mr. 1850
Horne, Richard Hengist 1872, n.y.
Howitt, William 1845
Inglis, Henry David [1834]
Editor of The Inquirer n.d.
Jameson, Mrs. Anna [1837-39], 1843?
Jerrold, Douglas [1852]
Jevons, Mrs. Thomas 1831
Jewsbury, Miss. n.d.
Kenyon, John n.d.
Kingsley, Mr. Charles [1852], 1856
Knight, Mrs. n.d.
Knight, Mrs. Charles n.d.
Lane, Mr. n.d., [1848-49]
Laws, Mrs. n.y.
Lee, Mrs. [1836]
Lloyd, Mrs. 1871
Loring, Ellis Gray 1850-58
Ludlow, Mr. n.d.
Lyell, Mrs. Charles n.d.
Macready, William C. 1839
Marcet, Mrs. n.d., [1839]
Marsh, Anne 1834-[1844]
[Martineau, Catherine ?] 1848-54, n.d.
Martineau, Lucy [1833]
Martineau, Robert [1840]
May, Samuel J., Rev. [1835-36]
[Mill, John Stuart ?] n.y., [1838]
Milman, Henry Hart 1841
[Milnes, Richard Moncton] [1845-46]
Mitchell, Miss n.d.
Montagu, Mr. 1843
Moxon, Edward 1843-50
Murray, Mr. n.y.
Napier, Miss 1863
[Needham ?], Lucy n.y.
Newton, G. L. n.d.
Nicholson, Mrs. 1861
Ogden, Mrs. n.d.
Opie, Amelia n.y.
Osgood, Mrs. [1843 ?]
Osgood, S. S. [1837]
Parrott, Miss [1845]
Pasley, Lady n.y.
Payn, James n.y.
Phillips, Mr. [Wendell ?] 1840
Pigott, Mr. [1860s], 1862-1865, n.d.
Porter, G. R. [1837-38]
Porter, Mr. n.d.
Potter, Richard 1834
Procter, Mrs. n.y.
Rankin, Thomas 1833
Rathbone, Hannah Mary 1849
[Reeve, Henry ?] 1858
Robertson, Mr. n.d.
Roebuck, Mrs. J. A. 183-?
Rogers, Miss [1840-44]
Sartoris, Adelaide n.d.
Sartoris, Mrs. n.y.
Saunders, Mr. n.d.
Saunders, Mrs. 1835
Selfe, Mr. [1849-50]
Shaw, Joseph 1840
Shepherd, Mrs. n.y.
Shuttleworth, Sir James n.d.
Editor of the Standard. [Antislavery Standard of New York City] 1859
Stephen, Miss [Caroline Emelia ?] 1874
Story, Justice Joseph 1836
[Sunderland, S. (L. ?)] [1844]
T., Mrs. n.d.
Tagart, Helen Bourn Martineau 1821-27
Tait, Mr. 1832
Thompson, Mrs. [1830's]
Thompson, Mrs. Vincent [1833]
Trumbull, Mrs. Joseph 1836
Trumbull, Mrs. [1836]
Turner, Rev. 1823
Vaughan, Mr. John 1838
Walford, Edward 1863-65
Walsham, Sir John n.y., [1854]
Walsham, Lady [1840-44]
Wansey, Mrs. [1837]
Wilde, Mr. n.y.
Wilde, Mrs. Georgina 1852
Wilkin, Simon 1826
Wilson, Mr. n.y.
Wood, Miss n.y.
Wordsworth, Mrs. William 1845
Yates, Miss 1834
Unknown to Sir, Madam, friend, cousin n.d., n.y.
Unknown to Madam, Sir, cousin, friend(s),
Tiny, Lord, [Mr. Hayward?]
1832-75
INCOMING LETTERS, 1824-1859, n.d.
Additional Note
Byron, Lady Noel 1834
Collett, Mrs. 1859
Fox, William Johnson 1833-38
Lyell, Charles 1853
Martineau, Thomas Jr. 1824
Christian Endurance poem by R. M. Milnes 1841
Mitford, Mary Russell 1853
Sumner, Charles n.d.
Turner, Catherine 1826
SERIES 2: JAMES MARTINEAU CORRESPONDENCE, 1824-1897
Additional Note
Adye, Willett 1866
Alexander, Pat P. 1869
Alger, Mr. W. R. 1857-84
Beecher, Rev. Henry Ward 1873
Bellows, Dr. 1876
Bowie, Mr. 1893
Bridell-Fox, Mrs. 1876
Buckton, George 1872
Chapman, John 1850-54
Cochrane, R. 1877
Collins, S. 1876
Collyer, Rev. Robert 1877
Conway, M. D. 1872
Courtney, Mr. W. L. Esq. 1888-89
Crellin, Mr. 1869
Cuckson, Rev. John 1892
Davis, Rev. David 1846-70
Farrington, Mr. 1885
Fletcher, Miss Louisa 1851
Fordham, H. George 1880
Fox, W. J. 1835
Fox, Rev. W. J. 1835
Giles, Rev. H. n.d.
Green, Joseph J. 1873-77
Hammond, Mrs. 1888
Harty, Rev. H. J. 1886
Hecht, Charles E. 1897
Herford, Edward 1850
Hewlett, H. G. 1861-93
Holiday, Mrs. 1893-94
Holland, Mrs. 1872-87
Hopkins, Miss 1880
Hopland, Rev. R. B. 1867
Huntington, Rt. Rev., Dr. 1873
Hutton, Rev. H. 1863
Johnston, Oliver T. 1893
Karslake, J. 1844
Knowles, James 1875
Longstaff, Thomas 1856
Lyell, Sir Charles 1873
Martineau, Mrs. Thomas [or Thomas and Helen]
See Tagart, Helen Bourn Martineau
Metcalf, L. S. 1890
Paget, Mrs. J. 1866-83
Patin, Rev. J. M. 1884
Peabody, Elizabeth 1880
Pett, Mrs. 1872
Piper, Miss E. H. 1877
Piper, Rev. H. H. 1847-52
Pugh, Mr. W. 1869
Raffles, Rev. Dr. 1846
Rawlins, C. E. and Boult, F., Jr. 1842
Rawnsley, Rev. H. D. 1895
Reade, A. Arthur 1882
Reeve, Henry 1885
Reinagh, Mrs. 1868
Robberds, J. G. 1824
Robinson, Charles 1890
Roscoe, Henry 1857-91
Sadler, Rev. Dr. 1887
Salaman, Miss A. A. 1874
Scott, A. J. 1852
Scott, John 1843
Slicer, Thomas R. 1877-84
Solly, Mr. 1888
Stannus, Rev. J. B. 1840
Stodder, H. F. 1872
Swanwick, Anna 1865-93
Scope and Content Note
Tagart, Edward 1829
Tagart, Rev. Edward 1857
Tagart, Helen Bourn Martineau 1824-57
Tagart, Mrs. 1858-69
Thom, Rev. J. H. 1873
Ward, Mrs. Humphrey 1897
Watts, Mr. 1892
Webb, Mr. Alfred 1862
Wedgwood, Miss [Julia ?] 1880
Whitehead, Rev. Mr. James 1873
Wiley, B. B. 1892
Williams, A. Esqr. 1877
Williams and Norgate, Mssrs. 1871
Wood, Mr. C. 1873
Wood, W. R. 1843
Worthington, J. H. [never sent] 1827
Unknown Sir 1862
Unknown autograph seeker 1887
Unknown "Dear Sir" 1887-90
Unknown Sir 1893
Unknown friend 1896
SERIES 3: CORRESPONDENCE OF OTHER MARTINEAU FAMILY AND FRIENDS, 1800-1898, n.d.
Additional Note
Atkinson, Henry G. to Joseph J. Green 1878
Baillie, Joanna to unknown [1845 ?]
Bartol, C. A. to The Boston Transcript n.d.
[Berry], Ada Bicknell to Lucy n.y.
Berry, Ada to unknown,
Lucy Tagart,
Emily Tagart, and
Mr. Tagart
1864-71
Blackburn, Mary to Mrs. Thomas Martineau n.d., 1823
Bostock, John to John Yelloly 1824
Broadbent, William to Thomas Martineau 1824
Chapman, Annie M. to Miss Dodd n.d.
Chuters, _____[?] to Charles Fox 1833
Cobb, Edith to Mrs. M. L. Tagart 1870-71
Cobb, G. E. to Emily Tagart [1866-77]
Cochran, M. to Mrs. Thomas Martineau 1823
Cumberland, R. B. to Mrs. Thomas Martineau 1827
Darbshire, Francis to Mrs. Thomas Martineau n.d., [1827]
Darbshire, Harriet to Emily Tagart 1861
Darbshire, Henrietta to Mrs. Thomas Martineau 1824-25
Darbshire, Mary to Mrs. Thomas Martineau and Emily Tagart 1824-67
D'Este, Sir Augustus to Catherine Hutton n.d.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo to Catherine Turner n.y.
F_____, Maria to Helen Martineau n.d.
Faithful, Emily to Mr. Deacon 1872
Flower, Eliza to Katherine Bromley 1833
Frederika Bremer to Mrs. Child 1857
Furness, W. H. to Dr. Peabody 1884
Gaskell, Holbrook to Mrs. Thomas Martineau 1826-27
Gaskell, William to Mr. Rawson 1883
Goodwin, Una M. to Joseph J. Green and unknown Sir [1873]
Greenhow, Elizabeth [Martineau] to Dr. Thomas Martineau and Mrs. Helen Martineau 1821-27
Greg, W. R. to James Knowles 1877
H_____, H. A. to Miss Emily Tagart 1867
Hardy, Ann to Mrs. Thomas Martineau 1826
Higginson, Emily to Mrs. Thomas Martineau 1826-27
Higginson, Harriet E. to A. P. Moor 1867
Higginson, Helen to Mrs. Thomas Martineau 1825-27
Howard, Edward Irvine to Mrs. Tagart 1863
Hull, Robert to Dr. Thomas Martineau 1823-24
Hunter, Joseph to Rev. Edward Tagart 1843-57
Hutton, E. to Emily Tagart 1867-68
Hutton, E. to unknown 1866
Hutton, W. to Jeremy Bentham, Esq. Birmingham 1807
I_____[?], Sara to Lucy Tagart 1862
Jerrold, Douglas to Charles Knight n.y.
Kainsford, Ann to Robert [Martineau] [1886]
Kenrick, Mrs. John [Latitia] to Mrs. Thomas Martineau 1824
Lawrence, S. to Mrs. Thomas Martineau [1824-27]
Lloyd, Anne to Mrs. Thomas Martineau 1827
Martineau, Caroline A. to R. Child Bagley 1898
Martineau, E. to Mrs. [Samuel] Jones 1800
Martineau, Mrs. Elizabeth to
Mr. Thomas Martineau,
Mrs. Helen Martineau (including notes from Harriet Martineau),
S. S. Osgood,
Judge Joseph Story
1816-36
Martineau, Gertrude to Barbara Bodichon 1868-84
Martineau, Henry to Mrs. Joseph Bourn 1824
Martineau, Jane to Mrs. Thomas Thomas Martineau
(including a note from Harriet Martineau)
1824-27
Martineau, Mary Anne to Mrs. Martineau n.y.
Martineau, Rachel to Mrs. Thomas Martineau 1824-26
Martineau, Robert to
Mrs. Helen Martineau,
Dr. Thomas Martineau (including an addition by Jane Martineau),
Charles B. Howell
1823-67
Martineau, Russell to Richard Garnett 1887
Martineau, Mrs. Russell to Richard Garnett 1898
Additional Note
Martineau, Thomas to [Joseph J. Green] 1878
Martineau, Marriot to Mrs. Thomas Martineau, Jr. 1827
May, Samuel to Mr. Endicott 1895
Montagu, Basil to Unknown "My dear Sir" n.d.
Morpeth, Viscount to Mrs. Chapman [George William Frederick Howard] 1843
Newman, F. W. to Dr. & Mrs. Hodgson 1866
Parker, Theodore to O. W. Albee 1885
Phelps, Elizabeth to Mrs. Thomas [Martineau] Tagart 1828
Phillips, Wendell to O. W. Albee n.y.
Additional Note
Phillips, Wendell to Oliver Johnson n.d.
Piper, Henry Hunt to [Edward Tagart?] 1849
Radice, A. N. to Miss Lucy Tagart 1865
[Radice, Mrs. A. N.] to “Uncle Henry” 1866
Rand, John to Mrs. Thomas Martineau Bradford [1826]
Rankin, Ann to Mrs. Thomas Martineau 1823-24
Robberds, John Gooch to
Rev. Edward Tagart,
Mrs. Thomas Martineau/Mrs. Edward Tagart
[Helen Bourn Martineau Tagart]
1823-54
Robberds, Mary to
Mrs. Thomas Martineau/Mrs. Edward Tagart
[Helen Bourn Martineau Tagart]
[1827]-1857
Roy, Rammohun to William J. Fox 1831-32
Spencer, H. H. to Mrs. Thomas Martineau 1827
Tagart, Helen Bourn Martineau to
unknown, Emily, Lucy, [Thomas Martineau]
Mary Robberds, [John Gooch Robberds?]
n.d., 1820-51
Tagart, Edward to Emily Tagart, John Gooch Robberds 1846-56
Tagart, W. H. to Mrs. Edward Tagart, Emily Tagart 1868-69
Taylor, Emily to William Johnson Fox 1842
Taylor, J. J. to Rev. George Crabbe 1849-53
Thompson, T. Perronet to J. J. Merriman 1842
Turner, Catherine to Helen, Emily, and Lucy Tagart [1850's-60's]
Watson, S. to Miss Emily Tagart n.d.
Wedgwood, Julia to Barbara Bodichon 1868-76
Worthington, Albina to Mrs. Thomas Martineau 1827
Worthington, George to Thomas Biggin Broadbent 1811
Worthington, John Hugh to Mrs. Thomas Martineau 1826
Yates, E. [Jane Ellen] to Mrs. Thomas Martineau 1823
Yates, Jane Ellen to Mrs. Thomas Martineau 1824
Unknown to
Mrs. Tagart,
Mrs. Thomas Martineau, Jr.,
Lucy Tagart
(envelope only)
n.d., 1823-57
SERIES 4: WRITINGS OF HARRIET MARTINEAU, 1825-1833, n.d.
Addresses; with Prayers and Original Hymns, for the Use of Families and Schools. 1825-26
Additional Note
Deerbrook, v.1-3. n.d.
Additional Note
The Hamlets, ms. [1833]
SERIES 5: MISCELLANEOUS MARTINEAU FAMILY PAPERS, ca. 1832-1966, n.d.
HARRIET MARTINEAU, ca. 1832-1966, n.d.
Obituary 1876
Draft of contract with Charles Fox re Illustrations of Political Economy [1831?]
William Johnson Fox 1833
Scope and Content Note
Unaddressed document concerning National Education 1833
Penciled note on items from a book 1849
Autograph manuscript leaf n.d.
Hymn from The Charmed Sea, ms. ca. 1833
Signed fragment, if everything was unruffled... n.d.
Clipped fragment and clipped signature n.d.
Signed fragment, The shorter the better... n.d.
Signed fragment, originally mounted with woodcut of the Knoll n.d.
Roland, a poem by A. Maudslay n.d.
No moralist has ever more exactly... by Sir J. Mackintosh n.d.
The graves of a household, by Felicia Hemans n.d.
Envelope, Hungarian inscription n.d.
Signature 1849
Signature on receipt n.d.
Receipt to Tichnor and Fields 1861
Signature n.d.
Autograph, with 2 prints and newsclipping n.d.
Two calling cards (1 annotated) n.d.
Trunk label n.d.
Illustrations of Political Economy 1832
The Latest Novelty, drawing of Harriet Martineau n.d.
The Manchester Strike 1832
Harriet Martineau, Health in the Camp, Atlantic Monthly excerpt 1861
Autograph on pictorial letterheads 1857, 1858
Autograph on engraved stationery 1862
Two woodcuts of the Knoll 1846, 1863
Woodcut of the Knoll, signed n.d.
Woodcut of the Knoll n.d.
Two engraved images of the Knoll, Ambleside n.d.
Carte de visite image of the Knoll, Ambleside n.d.
Carte de visite photograph of Harriet Martineau n.d.
Portrait (photo) of Harriet Martineau n.d.
Unknown photograph, enclosed with letter to R. H. Brand 1867
Etching of Harriet Martineau, signed with note n.d.
Portrait (lithograph) of Harriet Martineau [1873]
Portrait (etching) of Harriet Martineau, with autograph n.d.
Portrait (postcard) of Harriet Martineau n.d.
Osgood portrait of Harriet Martineau (reproduction) n.d.
Reproduction of drawing of Harriet Martineau n.d.
Harriet Martineau's Autobiography -- Comments on Her Portraits by Alfred Croquis n.d.
Notes Toward an Iconography of Harriet Martineau n.d.
Essex Institute, Vol. CII, No. 3. Charles Osgood, ... Salem Portrait Painter 1966
Scope and Content Note
Portraits of Harriet Martineau's contemporaries n.d.
Bourn family tree n.d.
Kip, William Ingraham, Authors in Edinburgh Review 1842
JAMES MARTINEAU AND OTHER MARTINEAU FAMILY, 1852-1900, n.d.
Courtney, W. L., The Late James Martineau, The Daily Telegraph, Monday, Jan. 15 1900
James Martineau, Autograph manuscript note (London) n.d.
James Martineau to B. B. Wiley 1877
Scope and Content Note
James Martineau
Cassell gallery portrait with memoir by Rev. Charles Wicksteed 1877
Signed photograph n.d.
Photograph n.d.
Portrait (lithograph?) n.d.
Obituary of David Martineau (d. 1768), manuscript copy made in unknown hand n.d. [after 1819]
Tagart, Rev. Edward, manuscript and shorthand notes 1852
SERIES 6: PAPERS OF REINHARD S. SPECK, 1900-1994.
INDICES, n.d.
Acquisition and Lot Numbers
Biographical information on prominent individuals
Harriet Martineau and name of correspondent
Harriet Martineau letters to: NOT in our collection
Harriet Martineau letters written from different places, divided by places/year, indexed by recipient
Letters IN our collection
James Martineau letters
Letters from other Martineau family and friends
Indexed letters to individuals by all Martineaus
Miscellaneous and MSS
Harriet Martineau to Fox
HM and others--citations
CORRESPONDENCE, 1956-1993
The Americanist 1961-70
Arbuckle, Elisabeth 1980-93
Scope and Content Note
Bell, Peter 1983
Blackburn, Ruth 1976-92
Daniels, Jeffery (Geffrye Museum) 1975
Halde, Carlyn n.y.
Hamburger, Joseph 1986
Hamill and Barker re Fox letters 1958-76
Hoecker-Drysdale, Susan 1986-93
Hostick, King V. 1956-57
Hunt, Dr. and Mrs. William 1959
Hunter, Shelagh 1985-86
Copy of manuscript (with corrections), Harriet Martineau, A Radical Sensibility
Copy of manuscript, Harriet Martineau and the Political Sublime: A Wordsworthian in America
Johnson, Wendell Stacy 1986
Levinson, Harry 1956-57
Meyers & Co. (Booksellers) 1956
Pope, Norris 1980-83
Postlethwaite, Diana 1989
Sanders, Valerie 1979-89
Slater, Michael 1980
Storey, Graham 1964
Webb, Robert K. 1975-93
Wolff, Robert Lee 1972-75
NOTES ON THE COLLECTION, 1900-1994, n.d.
Notes from interview with Dr. Speck Spring 1994
R. S. Speck, letter to his father 1952
National Union Catalog Listings of Harriet Martineau n.d.
UCLA, USC, Huntington Library holdings of Harriet Martineau n.d.
Harriet Martineau and Edward Moxon n.d.
Harriet Martineau, A Bibliography of Her Separately Printed Books, from the Collection of R. S. Speck 1958
Harriet Martineau, A Bibliography of Her Separately Cataloged Works 1947
Index of letters in the collection n.d.
Letters in the Tagart-Martineau papers n.d.
Notes on Tagart Papers n.d.
Notes on Fox letters n.d.
Transcript of Harriet Martineau's letters to Fox n.d.
Miscellaneous notes on the letters 1956-73
Miscellaneous notes and papers [1959-80]
"Liberty Bell" notes 1987
The Knoll, Ambleside guide and Lake District map [1964]
Ambleside material, They Came to the Lakes 1968
AMBR: Vol. X, no. 8, 112 1983
Scope and Content Note
Bibliography draft of Harriet Martineau's books n.d.
Books by Harriet Martineau, draft by R. S. Speck n.d.
Catalog draft, copy n.d.
Catalog listings of Harriet Martineau's books n.d.
Collation check list n.d.
R. S. Speck, lecture notes: Miss Martineau Won by Half A Neck 1971
Catalog quotations of Harriet Martineau's books ca.1970s-80s
Dictionary of Literary Biography, Victorian Novelists before 1885, by I. B. Nadel and W. E. Fredeman 1983
Going Through Harriet, taken from Wellesley College 1875-1975: A Century of Women [1975]
Elisabeth Escher, Treatise on Harriet Martineau 1925
The Friends of the Bancroft Library, Bancroftiana; Caring for Harriet, by Annegret Ogden 1989
The Bancroft Library, Exhibit captions 1993
Genealogy of Harriet Martineau n.d.
Story, Judge Joseph, Essex Institute 1947
Martineau, James
Bibliography and R.S. Speck's notes on James Martineau's letters. n.d.
Impressions, Vol. 1, no. 10 1900
A Letter from James Martineau to Henry G. Hewlett, 17 May 1888, printed by R. S. Speck 1963
Notes on Harriet Martineau works (by title)
Autobiography ca. 1960
Citations by George Elliot n.d.
Biographical Sketches 1963-80
The Birth of a Free Nation 1966
The Children Who Lived By the Jordan 1958-90
Complete Guide to the English Lakes n.d.
Dawn Island 1964
Deerbrook, Exhibition catalog 1973
Devotional Exercises 1969-77
Earliest works 1964, n.d.
Early Anonymous Tracts: 1825-1831 [1984]
Eastern Life, Present and Past ca. 1976
Feats on the Fiord 1965-85
The Hamlets n.d.
Health, Husbandry and Handcraft n.d.
The History of British Rule in India n.d.
Household Education 1963, n.d.
How to Observe. Morals and Manners 1976, n.d.
Illustrations of Political Economy, Poor Laws and Paupers, and Illustrations of Taxation n.d.
Introduction to the History of the Peace n.d.
Knight's Weekly Volumes, List n.d.
Letter on mesmerism of animals from the Eastern Counties Herald n.d.
Letters from Ireland 1981
Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development 1973
Life in the Sick Room n.d.
Life in the Wilds 1987
The Martyr Age 1979, n.d.
Our Farm of Two Acres n.d.
Playfellow Series I 1969-84
Playfellow Series II ca. 1980
Playfellow Series n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Political Economy Tales n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Collections, U.S.A.
Routledge editions n.d.
Sketches from Life n.d.
Society in America 1976-88
Traditions of Palestine n.d.
Notes and working paper of R. S. Speck [1984]
"Miscellanies" 1975-81
Miscellaneous editions n.d.