| StorageSite | UCL Special Collections |
| Level | Item |
| Reference Number | MS OGDEN/79 |
| Title | Martineau, "England and Her Soldiers" Manuscript |
| Date | 1859 |
| Description | Manuscript copy of Harriet Martineau's 'England and her soldiers', in her own hand, 1859. |
| Extent | 1 folder |
| AdminHistory | Born of a Unitarian family, 1802; the doctrine of "philosophical necessity" modified her religious beliefs; wrote on religious subjects, and reviews; wrote for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge; produced a successful series illustrating political economy, 1832-1834; continued to write, producing numerous books and articles on religious and philosophical subjects, travel, political economy, and other contemporary issues; died, 1876. Publications include: 'England and her Soldiers' (London, 1859), with Florence Nightingale. |
| CustodialHistory | Presented to Mr Barton by the author. Later part of the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), linguistic psychologist, founder of the Orthological Institute and originator of the language system Basic English, whose interests in language systems are reflected in the subject matter of his collection, which comprised individual manuscripts and manuscript collections dating from the 14th to the 20th century. |
| Acquisition | Part of the C K Ogden Library acquired by UCL in 1953. |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| AccessConditions | The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking. |
| Related Material | University College London Special Collections also holds 13 letters from Harriet Martineau to Lord Brougham, 1832-1836, 1858, and undated, a copy letter to T Coates, 1832, a copy letter to the committee of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1833, and a copy letter to Miss Carpenter, 1866 (Ref: BROUGHAM HB); 24 letters to the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1831-1834 (Ref: SDUK); three letters to Sir Edwin Chadwick [late 1830s-early 1840s] and a letter to her from Chadwick, 1843 (Ref: CHADWICK 1362, 2181/1); her autobiography (published in London, 1877), with 11 letters to William Tait, 1832--1837, inserted (Ref: MS OGDEN 101); an undated letter to Mrs Joseph Parkes (Ref: PARKES 33).
Correspondence and papers of Harriet Martineau are also held at the British Library, Manuscript Collections; Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts; Oxford University, Harris Manchester College Library; Birmingham University Information Services, Special Collections Department; London Guildhall University, The Women's Library; Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle Headquarters; Cumbria Record Office, Kendal; Dorset Record Office; Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies; Liverpool Record Office and Local History Service; Wordsworth Library, Ambleside; Armitt Library and Museum, Ambleside; Lambton Park, Chester-le-street; National Library of Scotland, Manuscripts Division; Trinity College Dublin; and, in the USA, Boston Public Library; Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library; Harvard University, Houghton Library; Huntington Library, San Marino, California. For further details see the National Register of Archives and 'Location register of English literary manuscripts and letters: eighteenth and nineteenth centuries' (1995). |
| FindingAids | Handlist at University College London Special Collections. |