| Abstract: Correspondence and notes of Henry Salt concerning the poet James Thomson, 1886-1906. |
Henry Shakespear Stevens Salt (1851-1939), author and naturalist - see Dictionary of National Biography.
Research papers of Henry Salt for his book on James Thomson (1834-82). Salt contacted many friends and acquaintances of Thomson in the quest for information. Many of the replies he received can be seen in MS. Eng. c. 2383. Salt also interviewed several people and was granted access to diaries and journals of Thomson in the possession of J.W. Barrs, many of whose Thomson papers are in the Bodleian - see M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers Summary Catalogue of Post-medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. 1 (Oxford, 1991), nos. 38864-911.
| Letters to Salt,
1886-1906 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 2383 Extent: 109 leaves Scope and Content: Including letters from
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| Papers,
1888-98 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 2384 Extent: 42 leaves Scope and Content: Including
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