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Spencer, Herbert, (1820-1903), philosopher

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Surname: Spencer
Forenames: Herbert
Gender: Male
Date: 1820-1903
Biography: ODNB link for Spencer, Herbert (1820-1903), philosopher
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P157447 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P26828 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Herbert Spencer
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1844-1903: corresp and papers
London University: Senate House Library
NRA 16253 Spencer
2
literary MSS
British Library, Manuscript Collections
3
1849-1903: corresp (148 items)
Knox College
See NUC MS 66-835
4
1882-95: letters (39) to Sir Percy Bunting
University of Chicago Library: Special Collections Research Center
See Sturges, Economists papers 1750-1950, 1975
5
1883-1903: letters (44) to Andrew Carnegie
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division
See Sturges, Economists papers 1750-1950, 1975
6
1851-1902: letters from Mary Ann Cross, with rel corresp and papers
British Library, Manuscript Collections
7
1864-94: letters (51), mainly to John Fiske
Huntington Library
See Guide to literary MSS 1979
8
1853-81: letters (15) to Alexander Campbell Fraser
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
9
1888-97: letters to Sir Francis Galton
UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections
NRA 19968 Galton
10
1873-96: corresp with WE Gladstone
British Library, Manuscript Collections
11
1877-1898: misc corresp mainly with Sir Patrick Geddes
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
12
1885-1901: letters (20) to Frederic Harrison
London University: London School of Economics Library, Archives and Special Collections
See Sturges, Economists papers 1750-1950, 1975
13
1869-86: letters (13) to Rowland G Hazard
Harvard University: Houghton Library
See Sturges, Economists papers 1750-1950, 1975
14
corresp with Sir John Herschel (14 items)
Royal Society
NRA 8803
15
1860-1903: letters (24) to George Jacob Holyoake
Co-operative Heritage Trust Archive
NRA 16403 Holyoake
16
1852-1900: letters (83) to Thomas Huxley
Imperial College Archives and Corporate Records Unit
NRA 8194 Huxley
17
1875-1903: corresp with Elizabeth Lecky
Trinity College Dublin
18
letters to Sir J Norman Lockyer
University of Exeter Library (Special Collections)
NRA 11128
19
corresp with John Stuart Mill (c50 items)
Northwestern University Archives
See Hamer, Archives and MSS in USA 1961
20
corresp with George Croom Robertson
UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections
NRA 14256 Robertson
21
letters to James Sully
UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections
NRA 14257 Sully
22
1900-03: letters to Sidney and Beatrice Webb
London University: London School of Economics Library, Archives and Special Collections
NRA 7533 Webb
23
letters (86)
Royal Institution of Great Britain
NRA 9522
24
1887-1902: letters to his American publisher William Henry Appleton (1814-1899), of D Appleton & Company, New York
British Library, Manuscript Collections