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Adam Matthew Publications Publications 2002-2003 2003/4 | Earlier Publications: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 Church Missionary Society Archive Section
VI: Missions to India Part 1: India General, 1811-1815, and North
India Mission, 1815-1881 One of the highlights of the collection is the detailed reports which were compiled by missionaries when they first arrived in a new area. They included geographical descriptions, notes on local flora and the inhabitants themselves, their backgrounds and allegiances, languages and religious customs. These reports, sometimes compiled by missionaries accompanying military surveyors, are amongst the earliest European reports for many parts of India, from the Bengal-Nepal border (where Rev. Schroeter travelled with Lt. Weston) to the south and the west of the country. There are substantial amounts of local material (much of an ephemeral nature), including both manuscript and printed documents. Some of this local material includes reports published in the 1870s from Kashmir and Meerut. Such material is of great importance for scholars of both mission and empire, for investigating how British and CMS policies developed (and differed) towards India. Reports and papers detail the shifting opinions of missionaries on Indian religions and society. Insights can also be found into the impact of British rule on India. January 2003 - £1790 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page Church Missionary Society Archive Section
VI: Missions to India Part 2 completes the coverage of the Mission Books for 1844-1880 and also includes the Individual Letter Books for 1852-1886. The Mission Books, 1844-1880 contain hand written copies of the Original Papers sent by the missionaries to the Secretary in London. The papers are numbered in the order they arrived in London. The letters and journals from 1844 to May 1849 are copied out in full and a note of receipt is made for the financial and printed papers. From 1849 onwards the letters only are copied. Annual letters are not copied out but those from 1875 onwards are printed at the back of the volumes. Each volume contains a name index. A wide variety of material is included as can be seen from the information below. Letters to and from missionaries
and Bishops Other letters included are from Rev D Pfander to Rev G G Cuthbert re the Indian Mutiny written at Peshawar, August 1857; Rev J H Fitzpatrick to Rev Venn re the admitting of native Christians to public employment; Rev A Shawbridge concerning the state of the country since the mutiny; letter from Mr W Wright to the Secretary, Agra May 1858 describing how the students at the CMS School reacted during the mutiny; Rev Leupoldt to Rev Venn, September 1858 describing a visit to Cawnpore, the site of a massacre during the mutiny with a statement by Eliza Bradshaw and Elizabeth Letts on the massacre of women, men and children; letter from Rev Leupoldt telling of his daughter's death from smallpox one month after her marriage and his decision to have a sabbatical in Europe after fourteen years in India; Rev William Briggs to Rev Wright of Mooltan in June 1876 re the huge increase in native assistants from one to twelve in just a few years; Rev F J Mayer to Rev Fenn about the arrest of a Colporteur for falsifying the bookshop accounts; Rev A Hern to Rev Fenn re his resignation as secretary of the Calcutta C M Association. Missionary Journals Minutes of Meetings and Conferences Missionary Reports Finance Miscellaneous Items The Individual Letter Books for 1852-1886 contain private and confidential letters to individual missionaries from the Secretary in London, addressing a wide variety of topics. Rev Christopher Fenn was the last Secretary to be appointed specifically to write these letters and he continued until his retirement in 1894. For the 1860s there is much about the development of the local church into a body independent of European support. Each volume has a name index. January 2003 - £1960 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page Church Missionary Society Archive Section
VI: Missions to India Part 3, as well as including the papers for India General, 1811-1815, begins with the publication of the South India material, including:
Early Correspondence, India
General, 1811-1815 Early Correspondence, South
India, 1815-1820
Individual Letter Books for
South India, 1851-1884 Letter Books for South India,
1820-1884
There are also many interesting and descriptive letters regarding the Indian Mutiny, 1857-1858. Mission Books for South India,
1820-1834 Also included in this part are letters to and from missionaries and Bishops, missionary journals (many of which give interesting and detailed information on missionary work and the customs and life of the local people), diaries of the catechist, the reader and the seminarists, and reports on a range of financial, educational and cultural issues. January 2003 - £2040 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page Church Missionary Society Archive
Section VI: Missions to India This part covers the South India Mission Books for the years 1834-1880, continuing on from Part 3 which focused on the years 1820-1834. Included in Part 4 are letters to and from missionaries and secretaries regarding mission business, missionary reports on their work and itineration, annual letters from the missionaries (for 1875-1880), and minutes of meetings and conferences. One of the highlights of this part is the missionary journals which contain many interesting anecdotes as well as much detail on missionary work and the life and customs of the local people. The reports remain as diverse as ever, with details on the Mayaveram, Mavelicara, Tinnevelly, Cochin, Dohnavar, Allepie, Cottayam and Palamcottah missions. There is news on missionaries, catechists, schools, congregations, seminaries and societies as well as an account of the conversion of a Brahmin, descriptions of a visit to Madras, and of the Prince of Wales' visit to Palamcottah in 1875. Other miscellaneous items featured range from an account of the practice of hook swinging to statistical returns for the mission stations to papers and correspondence relating to the caste question. January 2003 - £2040 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page Wilberforce: Slavery, Religion and Politics Parts 2 and 3 of this series offer the Papers of Samuel Wilberforce (1818-1873). Samuel was successively Bishop of Oxford and of Winchester. He also served as chaplain to Prince Albert and as sub-almoner to Queen Victoria. He presided over many church reforms and earned a reputation for controversy due to his involvement in the Hampden trial and the Evolution debate. Samuel Wilberforce's papers are important for the insights they provide into Victorian Society. Religion and morality assume a central position, informing politics and literature. The correspondence is very strong featuring many well known names, but also many lesser known people whose views are equally informative. From the world of state and politics there are: Prince Albert, Brougham, Disraeli, Emma, Queen of the Sandwich Islands, Edward Everett - US Ambassador, Gladstone, James Graham, Palmerston, Robert Peel, Lord John Russell, and Queen Victoria. From the world of art, literature and learning there are: Matthew Arnold, Christian Bunsen, Thomas Carlyle, John Singleton Copley, François Guizot, Edward Hawtrey - provost of Eton, Thomas Huxley, Benjamin Jowett, Mark Lemon, Bulwer Lytton, Monckton Milnes, John Murray, Caroline Norton, Samuel Rogers, William Whewell and Charlotte Mary Yonge. Leading religious and philanthropic figures featured are: Edward Bickersteth - Dean of Lichfield, Charles Blomfield - Bishop of London, Lady Burdett-Coutts, Anthony Ashley Cooper - Earl of Shaftesbury, Edward Denison - Bishop of Salisbury, Charles Ellicott - Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, John Keble, Edward King - Bishop of Lincoln, David Livingstone, F D Maurice, George Mountain - Bishop of Quebec, John Henry Newman, Edward Pusey, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Dean of Westminster, John Strachan - Bishop of Toronto, John Sumner, Archibald Tait and Frederick Temple - Archbishops of Canterbury, Richard Trench - Archbishop of Dublin, Charles Wesley, and Richard Whately. The collection also includes his diaries, 1830-1846, pocketbooks and much on the Church overseas, - especially in South Africa, Central Africa, North America, the West Indies, India and Australasia. Spring 2003 - £1955 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page Wilberforce: Slavery, Religion and
Politics Parts 2 and 3 of this series offer the Papers of Samuel Wilberforce (1818-1873). He was successively Bishop of Oxford and of Winchester. He also served as chaplain to Prince Albert and as sub-almoner to Queen Victoria. He presided over many church reforms and earned a reputation for controversy due to his involvement in the Hampden trial and the Evolution debate. Samuel Wilberforce's papers are important for the insights they provide into Victorian Society. Religion and morality assume a central position, informing politics and literature. The correspondence is very strong featuring many well known names, but also many lesser known people whose views are equally informative. From the world of state and politics there are Prince Albert, Brougham, Disraeli, Emma, Queen of the Sandwich Islands, Edward Everett - US Ambassador, Gladstone, James Graham, Palmerston, Robert Peel, Lord John Russell, and Queen Victoria. From the world of art, literature and learning there are Matthew Arnold, Christian Bunsen, Thomas Carlyle, John Singleton Copley, François Guizot, Edward Hawtrey - provost of Eton, Thomas Huxley, Benjamin Jowett, Mark Lemon, Bulwer Lytton, Monckton Milnes, John Murray, Caroline Norton, Samuel Rogers, William Whewell and Charlotte Mary Yonge. Leading religious and philanthropic figures featured are Edward Bickersteth - Dean of Lichfield, Charles Blomfield - Bishop of London, Lady Burdett-Coutts, Anthony Ashley Cooper - Earl of Shaftesbury, Edward Denison - Bishop of Salisbury, Charles Ellicott - Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, John Keble, Edward King - Bishop of Lincoln, David Livingstone, F D Maurice, George Mountain - Bishop of Quebec, John Henry Newman, Edward Pusey, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Dean of Westminster, John Strachan - Bishop of Toronto, John Sumner, Archibald Tait and Frederick Temple - Archbishops of Canterbury, Richard Trench - Archbishop of Dublin, Charles Wesley, and Richard Whately. The collection also includes his diaries, 1830-1846, pocketbooks and much on the Church overseas - especially in South Africa, Central Africa, North America, the West Indies, India and Australasia. Spring 2003 - £1020 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page The History of Science and Technology.
Series One: The Papers of Sir Hans Sloane, 1660-1753, from the
British Library, London Sir Hans Sloane's collection of alchemical manuscripts is one of the finest in the world and enables scholars to trace the history of the subject from c1900BC to c1600AD, charting its developments and setbacks, and its association with astrology, chemistry, magic and the occult. We include a total of 204 manuscripts dating from the 13th to the 17th centuries, featuring works by 30 key authors. March 2003 - £1530 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page The History of Science and Technology.
Series One: The Papers of Sir Hans Sloane, 1660-1753, from the
British Library, London Sir Hans Sloane's collection of alchemical manuscripts is one of the finest in the world and enables scholars to trace the history of the subject from c1900BC to c1600AD, charting its developments and setbacks, and its association with astrology, chemistry, magic and the occult. We include a total of 204 manuscripts dating from the 13th to the 17th centuries, featuring works by 30 key authors. March 2003 - £1530 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page Empire and Commonwealth Archives of
the Royal Commonwealth Society from Cambridge University Library The material in Part 1 is based on a detailed examination of the RCS card catalogue and draws principally upon documents under the heading Commonwealth: Colour questions and relations with native races for the period c1830-1939. The following is an indication of some of the items included:
"In Africa we must continue to guide and control", Lugard argues. Other commentators are not quite so sure. Bannister writes on Humane policy in the colonies and India; or the free, just and integral unions of coloured people with our people, (Brighton, 1870). Members of the British Association are recorded discussing the contact of European and native civilizations at a meeting in Ipswich in 1895; L E Neame warns of the Asiatic danger in the colonies (1907); but Henson, Keith, Bruce and Spiller talk of ethics, moral responsibility, self-government and inter-racial amity. In terms of imperial policy there is much evidence of misrule and misunderstanding. Here are the seeds of Apartheid, the Mau Mau rebellion, and other bitter conflicts of the twentieth century. Spring 2003 - £2050 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page Colonial Discourses Series Two: Imperial
Adventurers and Explorers This second series of Colonial Discourses looks at the role played by imperial adventurers and explorers in defining Masculinity and Empire. Where better place to start than with the papers of Richard Burton (1821-1890)? Burton was at once heroic and controversial and has many claims to our attention:
Part 1 is based on the Arundel Papers at the Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office, only recently drawn to the attention of scholars. There are seven boxes of material in total, covering all aspects of Burton's life and work. At the heart of the collection is a series of scrapbooks kept by Richard and Isobel Burton, combining cuttings, letters and photographs. The African Scrapbook, 1856-1864, one on The State of Syria, 1869-1872, and one on Arabia, Egypt, India, Trieste, Spiritualism and Vivisection are particularly valuable, but scholars will also find much of interest in those concerning Brazil and Isobel Burton's Life of Burton. The cuttings are from an extraordinary range of papers from The Liverpool Post to the Rangoon Times. There is much good material on Burton's consular activities in Damascus, 1870-1871, and a fine series of letters to Burton from Edward Freeman detailing affairs in the Balkans, an affray in Nazareth and the Midian Expedition. There are letters describing his mining interests on the Gold Coast and a detailed household inventory. Isobel Burton's manuscript of Iracema is included, as are details of the Burtons' financial circumstances and material relating to her will and the destruction of many of the manuscripts. There is publishing correspondence regarding the Arabian Nights and The History of the Sword and there are the Burtons' own copies of First Footsteps in East Africa, Lusiadas, and The Kasidah. There are also a large number of photographs and important surviving sections of Burton's notebooks and sketchbooks. This material helps us to understand the public impression and reception of Burton and to see how he was woven into the fabric of heroic imperialism despite his best efforts to upset the system and to preserve local culture. They highlight both the political value of African Exploration and the personal forces that drove Burton. Spring 2003 - £1250 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page Colonial Discourses Series Three:
Colonial Fiction Fiction occupies a central position in colonial discourse. Both literary scholars, keen to investigate the differences between colonial and post-colonial literature, and historians, evaluating cultural contact and the ideologies of empire and colonisation, will welcome this new project which makes available a substantial body of fiction written in and about the colonies, supported by a number of key works of non-fiction. Part 1 commences with a number of general works relating to colonial policy, such as:
These address some of the central themes of the colonial experience, charting the expansion of western influence through sea-borne exploration, the exploitation of resources and peoples and the imposition of western legal and geographical boundaries on the colonised. There are also a number of non-fictional works describing life in India. These include:
We then commence with coverage of Indian Fiction. We include works published in Britain and India which describe life in India from the East India Company period (1600-1857) through to the period of direct British government control (1858-1947). Some of the titles featured are:
This is only a sample of the 102 titles featured in Part 1. Major authors such as Bankim Chander Chatterji, Bithia Croker, Romesh Dutt, G A Henty, A Madhaviah, Flora Annie Steel, and Philip Meadows Taylor are represented by a wide variety of works. There is also poetry by authors such as Edwin Arnold, Toru Dutt, and Manomohana Ghosha, including adaptations of Indian folklore and legends. There are tales and histories of the Indian Mutiny, of inter-racial love affairs, of the problems of rule in India, and of the problems of being ruled. The variety of British, Anglo-Indian and Indian fiction allow the Indian colonial experience to be viewed from a variety of perspectives. Another key issue that can be explored is the use of language. Did imperial writers use language to classify, categorise and control their subjects? If so, how did native and settler authors use the same language to challenge colonial authority. Taken together with the sources published in Series One and Two of this project, these accounts will help to build up a nuanced picture of the colonial experience. They offer a wealth of opportunities for teaching and research. Spring 2003 - £2400 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page Australia: Colonial Life and Settlement
The Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1825, from the State Records
Authority, New South Wales From the First Fleet in 1788 to the establishment of settlements across eastern Australia (New South Wales then encompassed Tasmania and Queensland as well), this project describes the transformation of Australia from a prison settlement to a new frontier which attracted farmers, businessmen and prospectors. The Colonial Secretary's Papers are a unique source for information on:
The range of subjects covered is not surprising. The Governor was responsible for almost all aspects of the inhabitants' lives and these activities had to be recorded. The Papers take the form of letters sent by the colonial government, memoranda, regulations, proclamations, petitions, reports, returns and letters received. These document the arrival at Botany Bay, the relocation to Sydney, the initial struggles for survival under the governorship of Arthur Philip, the administrations of John Hunter and Philip Gidley King, the open rebellion that broke out during the governorship of William Bligh, and the more settled administrations of Lachlan Macquarie and Thomas Brisbane. In The Fatal Shore Robert Hughes bemoaned the lack of research into and acceptance of Australia's convict past. The evidence gathered here will open up a fresh wave of research. There are details of clearing gangs, corporal punishment, escapes, executions, the 'female factory', the health of convicts, mitigation of sentences, rations, road parties, ships, solitary confinement, transportation and wages. There is also much on the development of what has been seen as the biggest social experiment of all time. The social life of the colony is described as well as material on the importance of women for the success and development of the colony. There is much on the planned and unplanned aspects of urban development in areas such as Parramatta, Liverpool, Newcastle, Sydney and Van Diemen's Land, and scholars may wish to compare this with sources documenting the development of other colonial settlements in Africa, the Americas and Asia. Part 1 covers the out-letter books or 'letters sent' from the Governor and his principal aide, the Colonial Secretary to others within the colony or to 'foreign parts', which included England and other colonies. The letters date from 1808 to 1825 and tell us much about the way in which the colony perceived itself and the demands that were placed upon it. The papers also benefit from the existence of a massive web-based index. Every letter and bundle has been analysed, resulting in more than 200,000 searchable entries, including c40,000 names of individuals and c2,600 subjects. Sample subjects include Aborigines, Banks and Banking, Convicts, Distilleries, the East India Company, Employment, Fines and Punishments, Hospitals, Inquests, Kangaroos, Land, Livestock, Manufacturers, Medical Supplies, Merchants, Minerals, Pilots, Potatoes, Religion, Russians, Ships and Shipping, Tolls, Victualling, Whales and Wheat. Spring 2003 - £1520 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page Australia: Colonial Life and Settlement
The Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1825, from the State Records
Authority, New South Wales Part 2 covers the 'special bundles' of documents, each relating to a particular subject or topic, in many cases reflecting the administrative importance of the matter at the time. Sample topics include:
Spring 2003 - £1680 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page Australia: Colonial Life and Settlement
The Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1825, from the State Records
Authority, New South Wales Part 3 comprises the main series of letters received by the colony from Government officials and private individuals, 1788-1825. In addition, this series includes copies of agreements, despatches, general orders, instructions, ordinary regulations, proclamations, memoranda, reports and returns. Spring 2003 - £2560 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page Regions Beyond Missionary Union Archive
Papers of the RBMU concerning the Congo, India, Nepal and Peru
from the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western
World, New College, University of Edinburgh The Regions Beyond Missionary Union (RBMU) had its origins in the East End of London. Henry Grattan Guinness (1835-1910), whose uncle, Arthur Guinness, was the founder of the famous brewing empire, established the East London Training Institute for Home and Foreign Missions in Stepney Green in 1873. The Institute moved to larger premises in Harley House in Bow later in that year. From the outset, the Institute was interdenominational and international, and sought to train missionaries for service with missions around the world. Its first student, Joshua Chowriappah, was from India, and by 1903 some 887 men and 281 women had been trained. Of these 215 left to work in Africa, 182 in Asia, 170 in the Americas and 26 in Australasia. The name 'Regions Beyond Missionary Union' was adopted in 1899 in recognition of the growing global outreach of the Institute. It was committed to working among the poor regions peripheral to and beyond the British Empire and had established its own missions in the Congo (1878), Peru (1897), and in Bihar and Orissa, India (1899). Later missions were established in Kalimantan (Borneo) (1948), Nepal (1954), and Irian Jaya (1957). The archive includes the minute books of the Board of Directors, c.17,000 letters from missionaries in different regions, books, pamphlets, journals and photographs. These records contain information about the socio-economic development, as well as the growth of Christianity in these areas. They are a valuable source for world history and will serve scholars in a variety of disciplines. Part 1 contains the complete run of Director's Minute Books from 1900 to 1955. These refer to all aspects of the administration and policy of the mission, including the training college; missionaries and mission fields; theological principles; membership of the board and councils; publications; fund-raising and finance; auxiliaries and branches; and relationships with other missions and bodies in the UK and in the mission fields. Spring 2003 - £600 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page Regions Beyond Missionary Union Archive
Papers of the RBMU concerning the Congo, India, Nepal and Peru
from the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western
World, New College, University of Edinburgh Part 2 is devoted to records of the Congo Mission. Henry and Fanny Grattan Guinness were members of the Committee that established the Livingstone Inland Mission following Stanley's reports of his journey across Africa. The Harley Institute provided the first recruits. RBMU ran the mission from 1880 to 1884 before handing over responsibility to the American Baptist Missionary Union and the Swiss Missionary Fellowship. Instead, RBMU diverted its efforts to the foundation of the Congo Balolo Mission in 1888. This enabled the RBMU to reach the interior and 'Regions Beyond' existing missionary activity. By 1912 eight stations had been established and 123 missionaries sent out, of which 41 had died on, or soon after, returning from the field. The missionaries encountered slavery and cannibalism as recorded in the manuscripts in this collection. The RBMU became involved in anti-slavery action and protests against the atrocities, working closely with the Congo Reform Association. It continued to expand, setting up schools and hospitals and a printing press in Bongandanga. The Mission continued to attract local support even when colonial rule was being challenged. The archive of the Congo Mission includes hundreds of letters and reports, as well as memoirs and diaries. The Minutes of the Congo Balolo Mission, 1888-1919, are featured together with a rich collection of rare printed material and a run of The Congo Balolo Mission Record, 1904-1935. Articles concerning native evangelists and on 'Changing Africa' are especially interesting. These materials provide a fascinating record of society, politics and religion in the Congo from 1878 to the 1950s. This archive was deposited at the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World in 1991 following the winding up of the RBMU. The papers were fully sorted and catalogued in 2001. This microfilm edition offers scholars around the world the first opportunity to explore this archive in detail. The records relating to the Congo, Peru, Argentina, India, Kalimintan, Irian Jaya and Nepal will be vital to scholars studying these regions, but the archive also tells us much about the relationship of missionary enterprise and empire. Spring 2003 - £1100 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page Regions Beyond Missionary Union Archive
Papers of the RBMU concerning the Congo, India, Nepal and Peru
from the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western
World, New College, University of Edinburgh Part 3 documents the work of the RBMU in other areas. Several Harley Institute students commenced work in South America in the 1890s and this was put on a formal footing in 1897 when Henry Grattan Guinness visited the region. The mission to Argentina became self-supporting through their work with schools, but progress in Peru was difficult. The initial mission was handed over to the Evangelical Union of South America in 1911, but a new mission - the Peru Inland Mission - was established by nurse Annie Soper in 1929, based in Lamas. Correspondence, reports and minutes describe this work. There is also a run of The Lamas Evangel, 1933-1937, full of accounts of medical, educational and evangelical work in South America. Work in India commenced in 1899 with the establishment of RBMU missions in Orissa and Bihar. Bihar was truly at the edge of empire, on the northern fringes of India, next to Nepal. Schools, churches and orphanages were all founded and in 1930 the Duncan hospital opened at Raxaul. The mission did not make many converts, but during the Quit India movement in 1942 it provided a safe haven for refugees from the Australian Nepalese Mission, thus demonstrating its independence from empire. Minutes of the Indian Council, 1900-1919, station reports, letters and a multitude of rare printed items record the work of the RBMU in South Asia. There is only a small amount of material relating to the missions to Nepal, Kalimantan and Irian Jaya, as these were all established at the end of the period covered in this microfilm edition. However, there are many good letters and accounts of pioneering missionary activity in the middle of the twentieth century - at a time when colonial rule was being relinquished. This archive was deposited at the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World in 1991 following the winding up of the RBMU. The papers were fully sorted and catalogued in 2001. This microfilm edition offers scholars around the world the first opportunity to explore this archive in detail. The records relating to the Congo, Peru, Argentina, India, Kalimintan, Irian Jaya and Nepal will be vital to scholars studying these regions, but the archive also tells us much about the relationship of missionary enterprise and empire. Spring 2003 - £600 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page Regions Beyond Missionary Union Archive
Papers of the RBMU concerning the Congo, India, Nepal and Peru
from the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western
World, New College, University of Edinburgh Part 4 covers the principal periodical published by the RBMU from its inception in 1878 as Regions Beyond to its closure in 1990 as Horizons. It is essential reading for any scholar trying to understand the work undertaken by RBMU as it draws together all of the strands of their work. It is also very well illustrated. It covers:
Issues for 1880 cover topics as diverse as a long letter from Mr Hare at Lake Tanganyika; an account of an evangelistic tour of Newfoundland; an article on the women of Stanley's expedition; tidings from Port Said; a letter from Mr Head in Jamaica; records of the Uganda chiefs in England; and descriptions of the Livingstone Inland Mission to the Congo. This diversity continues in later issues that feature articles on Our Brethren in China; Dr Mackay's success in Formosa; African memories of Livingstone; the villages of Bihar; Lucy and Gershom Guinness in Tasmania; and work in Korea and Nepal. This archive was deposited at the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World in 1991 following the winding up of the RBMU. The papers were fully sorted and catalogued in 2001. This microfilm edition offers scholars around the world the first opportunity to explore this archive in detail. The records relating to the Congo, Peru, Argentina, India, Kalimintan, Irian Jaya and Nepal will be vital to scholars studying these regions, but the archive also tells us much about the relationship of missionary enterprise and empire. Spring 2003 - £1700 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century
Newsletters This joint project from Adam Matthew Publications and the Public Record Office brings together a strong body of newsletters from the State Papers Foreign and Chancery collections at the PRO. The papers provide an English perspective of events in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The majority of the material consists of letters either from or to the first Viscount Scudamore who was Charles I's ambassador in Paris from 1635 to 1639. Scudamore was an avid collector of newsletters and the papers that survive are a valuable source of information about the political issues being discussed in England and Europe at the time. Some of the best professional newswriters of the day reported back to Scudamore including John Pory and Edmund Rossingham, both of whose correspondence appears in this collection. Other prominent diplomatic and political personnel feature in the letters including the Viscount's brothers, Barnaby and James, Roger and James Palmer (cupbearer and groom of the bedchamber to Charles I) and Viscount Basil Fielding (English ambassador extraordinary to the princes and states of North Italy, 1634-9). Part 1 draws on three different PRO classes SP 78, SP 101 and C 115: The folders from the Secretaries of State files (SP 78 and SP 101) provide coverage of events in France and include the years 1635 to 1639, the time when Viscount Scudamore was ambassador to Paris. The majority of the letters originate from Paris or Versailles but the series also includes reports from agents at Marseilles, Bordeaux and Lille. Letters addressed to Viscount Scudamore discuss a variety of political and diplomatic issues in France including:
These folders also include correspondence between Louis XIII and Charles I. The Chancery files (C 115) consist largely of the papers and writings of the Scudamore family, which were inherited by the childless Frances Scudamore in 1815 and transferred to the Public Record Office on her death in 1820. The folders include newsletters from the following diplomats:
These files also include additional material from the Scudamore estate such as wills, deeds and financial accounts. Whilst this microfilm project is primarily dedicated to newsletters, it was felt that to remove these items from the Chancery files would be counter-productive. Therefore, the Chancery files have been filmed in their entirety and scholars will find this additional material provides valuable background knowledge to the Scudamore family and estate. The newsletters contain material on the Thirty Years War, Renaissance cities, Court intrigues, and details of significant meetings, conversations and treaties. There is also much to be gleaned from these files on preferment and how news could be used for an individual's political and social advancement. Other subjects covered in the newsletters include patronage, conduct, deportment and social behaviour. Covering a range of political topics, the letters highlight the situations that were being given diplomatic attention at the time. They provide a view of events in Europe from a visitor's perspective as well as highlighting domestic political concerns both on the continent and in England. The frequency and regularity of the letters shows the importance of the task of sending updated news to England and the high profile of envoys working abroad. The newsletters are an excellent resource for historians wishing to study the nature of political and news reporting in the seventeenth century. November 2002 - £1500 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page Renaissance Man: The Reconstructed
Libraries of European Scholars, 1450-1700 Series One: The Books
and Manuscripts of John Dee, 1527-1608 Renaissance Man: The Reconstructed Libraries of European Scholars, 1450-1700 seeks to bring together on microfilm the surviving volumes and manuscripts of some of the finest libraries in Renaissance England. Series One focuses on the great library of John Dee (1527-1608), philosopher, mathematician, astrologer and theologian. Under the guidance and general editorship of Dr Julian Roberts and Dr Elisabeth Leedham-Green this project aims to reconstruct Dee's Library based on the findings published in John Dee's Library Catalogue, edited by Julian Roberts and Andrew G Watson, (The London Bibliographical Society, 1990). Parts 1 and 2 focus on manuscript materials from the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and Corpus Christ College, Oxford. Parts 3-6 concentrate mainly on Dee's printed books. Part 3 is based on the holdings of Cambridge University Library and Parts 4-6 bring together the largest surviving group of Dee's printed books from the holdings of the Dorchester Library at the Royal College of Physicians, London. "This great library was always at the disposal of Dee's fellow scientists among his friends and pupils. If one believes that the first essential and the true centre of any university is its library, Dee's circle might truly be termed the scientific university of England during the period from about 1560 to 1583." [see F.R. Johnson, Astronomical Thought in Renaissance England (Baltimore, 1937), p139]. Many of John Dee's books were stolen from him in 1583. The chief thief seems to have been Nicholas Saunder. What happened when Dee left for Poland in September 1583 is set out in pp48-52 of John Dee's Library Catalogue, edited by Julian Roberts and Andrew G Watson, (The London Bibliographical Society, 1990). Not all the facts are known, but a good number of Dee's books have been traced in the holdings of the Dorchester Library at the Royal College of Physicians. Many of these have the name of 'Joannes Dee' bleached out and replaced by the inscription 'Nich. Saunder'. Dee-Saunder books are found not only in the library which Henry Pierrepont, Marquess of Dorchester (1606-1680) left to the College of Physicians in 1687 or 1688 but also among the books of Archbishop William Wake (1657-1737) at Christ Church, Oxford. Some of the latter had formerly been part of the Dorchester Library as they are listed in the 1664 catalogue of the Dorchester Library. For further details please see John Dee's Library Catalogue, edited by Julian Roberts and Andrew G Watson, (The London Bibliographical Society, 1990). Information on the acquisition of the Dorchester Library by the College of Physicians is to be found in an article by J Roy entitled The History of the College Library: The Dorchester Library (Royal College of Physicians, Vol.4 No.3 April 1970) and in William Munk, The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London, Volume I: 1518 to 1700 (Royal College of Physicians, London 1878). Both refer to the Marquess of Dorchester as 'Henry Pierrepoint'. Many puzzles still remain. Was the thief Nicholas Saunder originally in Dee's circle? What were the motives for his action? It seems that around 500 books were stolen by Saunder or spoiled by John Davis, but this was only a small part of the total library. Many books and manuscripts were dispersed later, some were passed on to Dee's friend, John Pontois, to John Woodall, to Arthur Dee, or to Patrick Saunders, Dee's servant, who was finally elected to the College of Physicians at Michaelmas 1620. (Patrick Saunders is no relation to Nicholas Saunder). Saunders left his books in his will to his son, also Patrick, who like his father went on to practise medicine in London. The books in the Library of the Royal College of Physicians, clearly identified as belonging to John Dee, carry many of his annotations and marginalia. It is known that Dee annotated more books in the earlier part of his career up to 1583. The annotations are of three kinds. There are signs (the pointing hand and the 'flower sign' which both occur in his library catalogue); underlinings of key words or key passages of text; or marginal notes - often the occasional word or phrase penned beside the text. There are also important biographical and bibliographical notes, written for the most part before 1560, either on fly leaves, title pages or at the end of volumes. Many such examples are reproduced in this microfilm edition of Dee volumes from the Dorchester Library. The annotations reveal much about Dee's interests, his reading habits and sometimes they even give details of particular events in Dee's life, nativities and other occurrences. They also inform our understanding of general reading practices and the management of knowledge in the Renaissance period. Authors represented in Part 6 of this project include Aristeas, Cornelius Bonaventura Bertramnus, Barnabe Brisson, Gabriele Buratelli, David Chytraeus, Robert Constantin, Augustinus Caelius Curio, Carolus Degrassalius, Lodovico Dolce, Euripides, Michael von Eytzinger, Simon Fontaine, Gilbert Génébrard, Antoine Geuffroy, Laurentius Grimalius Goslicius, Herodian, Thomas Kirchmeyer, Ramon Lull, Niccolò Machiavelli, Giovanni Marinello, Petrus Martinius, Pedro Mexia, Antoine Mizauld, Sebastianus Foxius Morzillus, Sebastian Muenster, Jacobus Naclantus, Marcus Antonius Natta, Jeronimo Osorio da Fonseca, Onofrio Panvinio, Caspar Peucer, Petrus Pomponatius, Guillaume Postel, Quintilianus, Innocenzio Ringhieri, Alessandro Sardi, Guillaume de Saluste du Bartas, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Josias Simler, Petrus Suffridus, André Thevet, Johann Tritheim, Johannes Velcurio and Thomas Walsingham. Winter 2002 - £1760 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page Renaissance Commonplace Books from
the British Library Renaissance readers, writers, and speakers were well-trained in textual recycling, and one of their most powerful and pervasive tools was the 'commonplace book' - a collection of notes from reading and other sources that the compiler might want to recall, and reuse, at a later date. While the structure and purpose of these volumes varied enormously, they were distinguished from random collections of quotations (in theory, at least) by being gathered under conventional headings called loci communes or 'common places'. As Ann Moss has explained, "The more elementary commonplace-books…would be divided into sections under heads listing the main virtues and vices, and all their subsidiary manifestations. More advanced commonplace-books might have ambitious programmes for covering all knowledge, or they might be specialist repertories of excerpts relevant to specific disciplines" (Printed Commonplace-Books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996, v). The headings could be tailored to an individual's personal or professional needs, suggested by teachers, or bought in blank-books with printed headings and decorative borders - and readers who did not have the patience or the resources to gather their own entries could even buy a book with the quotations already printed or written in. Commonplace books went hand-in-hand with the period's emphasis on imitation and 'copia' rather than originality. The commonplace was not seen as derivative or trite but rather as a mark of eloquence and learning, and a means of participation in a common language and outlook. Pupils were taught to construct commonplace books almost as soon as they could read and write: until the practice declined in the eighteenth century, they were a sign that someone had done their homework rather than plagiarized other peoples' words, ideas, and images. John Brinsley's Ludus Literarius (1612), one of the period's most influential guides to teachers, advocated the use of commonplace books by grammar school students "to the end that they may be sure to have variety both of words and phrase…[and] may be sure ever to have store of matter, or to find of a sudden where to turn to [have] fit matter for every theme" (Bb2r). Their use extended well beyond Brinsley's emphasis on rhetorical training in the classroom. They were especially common with lawyers and, as my epigraph suggests, with travellers: as early as 1650 James Howell suggested that "In reading he [who is preparing to travel] must couch in a fair alphabetic paper-book the notablest occurences…and set them by themselves in sections" (Instructions and Directions for Foreign Travel, London, 1650, B11r). The catalogues of most libraries (including the British Library) now tend to use the term 'commonplace book' to describe any collection of notes gathered by any person or group for almost any purpose. During the Renaissance itself the standard headings and formats prescribed by Erasmus and other humanist educators were giving way to looser compilations that served the functions of practical manuals, business ledgers, private diaries, and family archives. Kevin Sharpe has recently suggested that "there was an ambiguity at the heart of commonplacing: For though what the compiler copied was extracted from a common storehouse of wisdom, the manner in which extracts were copied, arranged, juxtaposed, cross-referenced or indexed was personal and individual" (Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000, 278). Most surviving commonplace books are strikingly idiosyncratic, and very few volumes kept to their original schemes with absolute strictness: in some cases, the compiler's needs or frames of reference changed, and in others the manuscript changed directions (both literally and figuratively) as it changed hands. It is not at all unusual to find a collection of legal records or historical notes written around an earlier compilation of philosophy or poetry, written sideways or upside-down in any available space. As might be expected of the premier collection of books and manuscripts in the English-speaking world, the British Library has one of the richest collections of commonplace books from the English Renaissance. There are examples from virtually every discipline and profession, including rhetoric, theology, politics, poetry, law, medicine, history, heraldry, geography, and cookery. Indeed, the covers of a single volume will usually contain more than one of these subjects, and when the groupings are not simply the result of a shortage of paper they can point to long-forgotten associations and affiliations (as in Royal MS 12 A XXXIV, a compendium that shuttles between geography and rhetoric, or in John Milton's commonplace book, where the entries for poetry are listed under the general heading of Ethics). Some of the period's leading poets, scholars, and public figures are represented in the collection, including John Milton, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Locke, Lord Burghley, Sir Julius Caesar, Lord Preston, and Sir William Trumbull. These manuscripts provide glimpses of the raw materials that lie behind the great works and historic actions, and often reveal unexpected areas of interest or expertise - as with the collection of maps and itineraries owned and annotated by Lord Burghley, Queen Elizabeth's chief minister, and the drawings of plants and animals and the wax impressions of foreign and ancient coins assembled by John Covel, chaplain to the Levant Company and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. And some manuscripts capture the lives and minds of figures who deserve to be better known, including the poet Henry Oxenden, whose commonplace book (Additional MS 54332) not only documents his readings and writings but provides an intimate record of events in his household and neighbourhood, and the Royalist prisoner Sir John Gisbon, who compiled a poignant scrapbook (Additional MS 37719) of prayers, historical records, clippings from contemporary books and engravings, and a verse autobiography during his incarceration in Durham Castle between 1653 and 1660. Gibson produced his manuscript as much for his children as for himself, and the British Library's commonplace books offer ample evidence for the use of volumes by several members of a single household or family. The library's strong collection of family archives also make it possible to compare the commonplace books of Sir Julius Caesar and his grandson, the memoranda of John Locke and his father, and the notes of several generations of the Scattergood family. It is also possible, in a surprising number of cases, to compare more than one commonplace book by a single compiler: we have two each from John Morris, Henry Sturmy, and Sir William Trumbull. Setting them alongside each other can provide a valuable opportunity to trace a person's working habits across a wider field than usual - either across different subjects (Morris's collections are devoted to humanist literature and medicine) or over an extended period of time (Trumbull's two collections date from his days as a student and his years as a practicing lawyer). Finally, there was a growing market for printed books to guide the compilation of manuscript notes, and compilers of manuscript commonplace books were expected to cut and paste (sometimes literally) excerpts from printed texts. The British Library's collections offer many examples of the coexistence of manuscript and print in a single volume. Perhaps the grandest book produced in the period with printed headings and blank pages for readers' notes was that of John Foxe (better known as the author of The Book of Martyrs): in his copy (Additional MS 6038) Sir Julius Caesar entered nearly sixty years' and 1200 pages' worth of reading notes and observations, and in the process he completely rewrote Foxe's printed headings and alphabetical index. By 1680, a lawyer could purchase the short printed text, A Brief Method of the Law, Being an Exact Alphabetical Disposition of all the Heads Necessary for a Perfect Common-Place, which was (as the full title continued) "Printed in this Volume for the conveniency of Binding with Common-Place-Books". Lansdowne MS 638 is an example of how this book would look when bound with blank leaves and filled with legal cases and textual authorities. Like some of the period's customised books of devotion, Sir John Gibson's prison notebook (Additional MS 37719) contained fourteen images borrowed from contemporary books and engravings. Clearly, commonplace books are a valuable, and still largely untapped, resource for the study of the intersection of manuscript and print culture. Winter 2002 - £1230 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page Newsletters of Richard Bulstrode,
1687-1689 The newsletter was made possible in the seventeenth century by the establishment of a regular postal service both within England and to the continent. But newsletters would probably not then have flourished had it not been for the control of the press, which the partisanship of the newspapers appeared to make necessary. For a fee, usually five pounds per annum, a subscriber to a newsletter received a semi-weekly letter which told so much of the news of court and town or of foreign intelligence as was not in the newspapers of the time. Sometimes, it is possible that the news sent was edited or coloured to suit the views of the subscriber (see Lady Newdigate Newdegate Cavalier and Puritan 1901, pp. vii-xvii) but it is unlikely that there was much of that, if only because of the difficulty of composition. Probably what most subscribers received was merely a clerk's copy of a master letter which was preserved by the letter-office in case any question should arise as to the news dispersed. One of the largest of the newsletter offices of the Restoration was that organised by Sir Joseph Williamson, Secretary of State, with the assistance of Robert Yard and others§. Williamson's office had a large list of subscribers and a constant effort was made to enlarge that list, not, however, solely that the profit would be the greater, for the clerks received the main financial benefit from their activity. Their master, Secretary Williamson, employed his office of Secretary of State and master of the letter-office, i.e. post-office, to organize a large correspondence, particularly with persons residing abroad, in order to provide material for the London Gazette of which he was also the publisher, as well as to keep himself informed for official reasons. The subscribers merely received the newsletters for which they paid but to the correspondents were sent, at least once a week and sometimes more often, not only the latest London Gazette but also a newsletter giving court and London news not printed in the semi-weekly Gazette. In return, the correspondents were expected to send printed newspapers of the countries where they lived as well as such unprinted news as had come to their ears. Williamson was able to do this at no great expense, other than for clerical help, because, through his secretaryship, he had a franking privilege which covered letters both ways. Williamson's newsletters are written on quarto paper and, for the most part, with the heading 'Whitehall'. When the court was absent from Westminster his letters are sometimes headed 'Windsor' or 'Newmarket'. Apparently he also supplied, when Parliament was in session, a daily letter covering the debates in both Houses. These parliamentary letters are usually, but not always, on foolscap. His clerks employed several different seals†a, mostly armorial. Another newsletter office was conducted by Edward Coleman. He is not known, apparently, to those who have written on the newsletters of this period. However, Coleman was not only a very accomplished news agent who wrote detailed letters in the manner of Henry Muddiman but he was also the same Edward Coleman, secretary to the Duchess of York, who was caught (see State Papers Dom., Charles II 1678) the 28 September 1678, i.e. two days after his latest letter here preserved, transmitting money to plotters against the life of Charles II and executed for treason 3rd December. The evidence by which this letter-write may be identified with the traitor occurs in a note written at the end of his newsletter (in English) to Bulstrode, 3 September 1676; 'Ayez la bonte Monsr pour l'avenir d'addresser vos letters A Monsieur Colman secretr de S.A.R. Madame la Duchesse D'yorc A'Londres pour le service de S.A.R.' ‡a. Coleman's letters are written apparently by a clerk, at least all references to Coleman are in the third person, on foolscap paper, with marginal notes as to day of week and month. They are unsigned, but when the address leaf is preserved have an unidentified seal in black wax: on a chevron, between three cherub heads winged, a crescent for difference; crest, a demi-dragon rampant. The newsletters in this collection before 1675 (244 letters), which are all from Sir Joseph Williamson's letter-office, are addressed to a 'Mr. Walgrave' (25 October 1667 - 18 December 1668, 54 letters), to a 'Mr. Mansfield' (23 letters), to a 'Mr. Curtis' (1 letter), to a 'Mr. Richardson' (2 letters, 1 being shared with Bulstrode) and to 'Mr. [Richard] Bulstrode' (25 letters) - the rest being without any addressee though after 1673 probably all were written to Bulstrode. Certainly, from 1674 on, all the letters in this collection were intended for him though few are so addressed. From 9 April 1675 to 26 September 1678 there are 235 letters written from Edward Coleman's office to Bulstrode. From 24 April 1676 to 11 March 1677, concurrently with the Coleman letters, there are 77 letters from Williamson's letter-office. From 1 January 1679 until the end of the series in 1689, the letters are all from Williamson's office. Thus for more than twenty years, at least one letter a week, and sometimes (e.g. January 1677, when both the Coleman and Williamson letters are preserved) as many as twenty-two in one month are here preserved except for the following gaps: April 1669, August 1670, August 1671, October-November 1672, April 1673-March 1674, June-August 1674, January-March 1676, October-December 1678, January-December 1684, May-August 1685‡‡a, and January-March 1688. Sir Richard Bulstrode, to whom most of these letters are addressed, was stationed at Brussels, first as English 'agent', then, after being knighted in 1676, as 'Resident', and finally, after the accession of James II, as 'Envoy'. He appears to have been merely a subscriber to Coleman's newsletter, but he was a valued correspondent of Williamson's office. Throughout the letters from that office occur many postscripts of thanks for newspapers from Brussels, and even from Vienna and Venice, as well as thanks for Bulstrode's letters of which the value may be judged from the example here preserved §a (MS.2a). At Brussels, no doubt, Bulstrode could pick up many a piece of news of the plans of the Allies in the Thirty Years' War, which, apparently, he enjoyed retailing. Almost as numerous as the expressions of thanks, however, are the complaints that no letter had been received from Bulstrode the last post. On one occasion, 26 April 1680, Yard was much aggrieved and wrote: 'I cannot sr but take notice that I have of late seen the news letter you send to me printed verbatim in one of the Intelligences [query The Currant Intelligence: or an impartial account of transactions both foreign and domestick], as the enclosed will give you the proof of, which you will best be able to judge from whence they have it, and whether it be by yr order'. The following year, 29 July 1681, Yard wrote: 'The letters you send us are printed word for word in one of the weekly pamphlets that come out …', and again, 3 September 1683, he complains that Bulstrode sent to some of the Clerks of the Post Office 'news which they publish prejudicial to the Gazette…'. The complaints were not all on one side, however, for several times it would seem that Bulstrode was fearful that some misinformation printed in the Gazette over a Brussels date-line would be attributed to him. James Vernon reassured him, 30 December 1687: 'I am sorry ther was any thing printed here which gave offence but I am satisfied that ther was nothing att that time or any other time published but what might be justified by the Letters sent hither …'. Again, 8 August 1687, Vernon sought to forestall a complaint as follows: 'Our french Translator is this day quite beside the Cushion as you will see by comparing one with th'other. Yor letters came in late indeed on Sonday after we had finished Our Gazett & he took no notice of the alteration wee had forced to make [i.e. on account of information in Bulstrode's letters] wherin I don't excuse him (for it is very Idly done) but onley to give you notice of the failure …'. Evidently, also, Bulstrode made the same complaint that had been made to him that he supplied identical news to other parties for, 23 December 1687, Vernon wrote: 'I have received yor reproof both by yor owne letter & Mr Lynche and I have been & shall be as carefull as I can to send you what news I hear. I am sorry it looses its name by being communicated to the Gazetier to whom Mr Yard would have it sent in Exchange for his Gazetts …'. There are also frequent requests that these letters should be considered as private information, e.g. 7 September 1688, Yard wrote: 'I againe Entreat you not to lett these papers goe out of yr owne hands, but when you have read them to commit them to ye fire'. When visiting England in August 1685, Bulstrode requested Yard that the newsletters sent to Brussels should be written in French, presumably to save Bulstrode the trouble of translating them himself before turning them over to some other party, possibly a Brussels 'intelligencer'. Evidently Bulstrode's own letters were of sufficient usefulness to the London Gazette that even such drudgery as this request entailed was not too much to be endured for Yard thereafter supplied very nearly all the letters in French. He did, however, have some qualms for, 25 September 1685, Yard wrote: 'I have collected all the news I possibly can, and have putt it in the Language you desire, but one thing I pray, that you will not send my paper to anybody, for my hand may be knowne, and that you will never name me …'. It has been said †b: 'To all intents and purposes, there are no State Papers for the reign of James II. The newsletters for that reign, therefore, ought to be printed almost in their entirety'. In this collection there are some 368 letters of that period - apparently as large a number as are known in any other series. Winter 2002 - £340 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page 'Michael Field' and Fin-de Siecle
Culture and Society This microfilm facsimile copy includes the 30 volumes of diary material of 'Michael Field', together with 8 bound volumes of correspondence between Michael Field and others, held in the British Library. Michael Field was an aunt and niece couple who not only published poetry and drama under the single male pseudonym, but who also lived their lives through that name, among other sobriquets. Katharine Bradley, the aunt (1846-1914), was known primarily as 'Michael' to her friends, but was also commonly called Sim by her life-long companion and niece, Edith Cooper (1862-1913). Cooper, was known primarily as 'Henry' or 'Field', but other names proliferate in the diaries. The name 'Michael Field' is therefore a bipartite name, signifying the assumed names of two separate women, as well as appearing to signify one single male identity: Bradley and Cooper used the composite single name 'Michael Field' to represent their unity as co-writers and lovers. The two women were everything to each other. When Cooper's mother was invalided after the birth of her younger sister, Bradley stepped in and took on the role not only of aunt but also guardian and teacher; soon the two women were also filling the roles of mother and daughter, sisters, literary collaborators, and, eventually, lovers. In 1884 (when Cooper was 22, and Bradley 38) they published their first work in the name of Michael Field - the verse-drama Callirrhoë. From then on their lives became intertwined in the identity of Michael Field. Bradley and Cooper's life-narrative, recounted in both letters and diaries, is split along some very dramatic fault-lines. The early conversion to Paganism (on the acquisition of a pet Skye Terrier) was mirrored by an equally cataclysmic conversion to Catholicism (on the death of a pet Chow dog, much later on in their lives). It is a life-story with a dramatic tripartite structure in which the protagonists are involved in key moments of transition. The story of Michael Field is based around a complex and compelling personal mythology, but there is a danger of only ever labelling Bradley and Cooper as eccentric, and seeing the madness of their personal symbolism, and never seeing their story as engaged fully with the major issues of the period. Rather, their lives display a thorough engagement with late-Victorian and early modernist world, both in terms of the people with whom they associate, the issues with which they are concerned, and also in the manner in which they choose to construct their narrative. In their work we often see ingenious and unusual approaches to paradigmatic turn-of-the-century concerns. Winter 2002 - £1100 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page Masculinity, 1560-1918: Men Defining
Men and Gentlemen Concepts of Masculinity are complex, often contradictory, and are intertwined with notions of class and race. A new scholarship is emerging to explore these concepts that, in turn, tell us a great deal about gender relations, the control of power and society as a whole. This project makes available a body of source material to facilitate the examination of these questions. This material shows how concepts of masculinity changed over time. It shows how French and Italian models of behaviour influenced English attitudes. It shows how concepts of masculinity were created, policed and maintained by men. How did the Victorian Patriarchal model of society, strictly hierarchical with a father at the head of every household, emerge? How was this reconciled with the fact that a woman, Queen Victoria, was the head of the Royal Household? Why did Queen Victoria, newly proclaimed Empress of India, reinforce the patriarchal ideology with her pronouncement: 'Let woman be what God intended, a helpmeet for man, but with totally different duties and vocations.' How did the growth of Empire affect notions of masculinity? What role did religion play in defining gender roles? Parts 2 and 3 of this project provide a wide range of rare printed sources with which to examine changes in attitudes towards manliness during the late Hanoverian, Victorian and Edwardian periods. The literature of education is particularly revealing and exhibits breathtaking certainty concerning man's position in society and the white man's position in the running of the world. Scriptural authority was proclaimed and men were educated to lead. Public School education taught patriotism and rigour, fashioning emotionally austere, self-controlled and verbally reticent sons of empire. Yet against this picture of taciturn English maleness was a contrasting world of homosexual relations, loneliness and increasing sympathy for the rights of women. Works such as G N Banks' A Day of my Life; or, Every-day experiences at Eton (1877) and An Eton boy's letters (1901) help to show the reality of school life in contrast with the prescribed life. Business and Industry also had a profound impact on masculinity during this period. The sons of aristocracy found themselves at school with sons of business. Works such as The Manners of the aristocracy, by one of themselves (1881) define a different type of man to that found in Household truths for working men (1857), or Golden rules for success in life, business, health … (1906). Although by reading works such as How to Shine in Society, 1860, sons of business hoped to pass without unfavourable notice in polite society, men also had to function in a new business environment. There was an increase in factories and offices away from the home and a growth of a new literature with titles such as The Man of business considered (1864), How to excel in business (1876) and the Guide to the government, civil service, East India service, and the leading professions (1857). As a counterpoint to the cut and thrust of business there emerged the comfortable world of Victorian domesticity, a safe place of retreat for the man to a companionate marriage with obedient children. This world is pictured in Rules for the Behaviour of children (1840), How to choose a wife (1855), and George Bainton's the Wife as Lover and Friend (1895). Towards the end of this period there is also much promotion of adventure and advocacy of emigration and imperial service. Childhood aspirations are defined by books of heroes such as Men and Deeds (1910), Men of the Moment (1915) and Baden Powell: The hero of Mafeking (1907). Was this to escape from the crisis of masculinity at home, brought about by changes in divorce laws, child protection and the gradual encroachment of women upon previously masculine areas of control? These texts will enable students and scholars to explore the social and historical construction of gender and sexuality and to create a new gendered history of men. They will be used by literary scholars, sociologists and social historians and form an invaluable complement to our existing series on Women Advising Women and Women and Victorian Values. February 2003 - £1960 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page Sex and Gender: Manuscript Sources
from the Public Record Office Winter 2002 - £1570 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page
Sex and Gender: Manuscript Sources
from the Public Record Office Winter 2002 - £1570 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page Women and Victorian Values: Advice
Books, Manuals and Journals for Women Women and Victorian Values offers scholars an extensive range of material spanning the Victorian and Edwardian era. Part 6 focuses on household management and domestic economy and consists of over 77 titles, from the works of Eliza Acton through to Samuel Hole. This selection of household manuals, advice books, recipe books, encyclopaedias and dictionaries, sourced from the printed cookery collection held at the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds, provides a fascinating insight into the day-to-day running of the Victorian and Edwardian household. The reader will be able to assess the types of food available, changes in the management of household economy due to the emergence of a middle class, advice on etiquette, and the impact of new technology within the home. June 2003 - £1740 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page
Industrial Revolution: A Documentary
History: Series Two: Papers of John Rennie (1761-1821), Thomas
Telford (1757-1834) The engineers John Rennie and Thomas Telford were key figures in the Industrial Revolution. Their contribution to the development of Britain's industrial landscape in the form of roads, bridges and canals is richly documented in this collection, drawn from the holdings of the National Library of Scotland. Part 1 focuses mainly on the papers of John Rennie. Born in East Lothian in 1761, he went on to work with James Watt and was eventually responsible for the London Bridge engineering project. His notebooks, plans and drawings cover his work on bridges, canals and harbours. In addition, these papers contain correspondence between Rennie and other industrialists of the period including James Watt, Matthew Boulton and the Brunels. The reader is further assisted in understanding this significant period of British history by the inclusion of material such as the Joseph Black Lectures on Chemistry and the Diary of Thomas Telford. June 2003 - £1700 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page
Foreign Office Files for Cuba (Public
Record Office Class FO 371) The documents in Part 3 offer a British perspective on the events that lead up to the Cuban Missile Crisis of Autumn 1962, an incident which saw the Cold War period at its most volatile. Detailed reports, memoranda and correspondence cover such topics as the US blockade of Cuba, Soviet military aid to Cuba, NATO, the impact of the crisis on trade between Britain and Cuba, communism in Cuba and propaganda. The three PREM II files included here make evident the close contact maintained between Macmillan and Kennedy throughout the crisis, with many of their conversations recorded in the files in full. Offering comprehensive documentation on all aspects of the crisis, the material included here illustrates the fact that Britain was more than just a bystander. Her colonial and Commonwealth interests in British Guyana and the Caribbean, coupled with the 'special relationship', ensured that the Foreign Office placed the highest premium on relevant, lucid information, making these files an excellent resource for the period. June 2003 - £1310 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page Church Missionary Society Archive:
Section IV: Africa Missions Part 20 begins coverage of the papers for the Uganda Mission. Included in Part 20 are Letter Books, 1898-1934, and Original Papers, 1898-1909. Material from the later period will form Parts 22 and 23 of Section IV: Africa Missions. Addressing all manner of issues and subjects, some of the highlights of this part are reports on the Sudanese revolts; instructions to new missionaries; letters discussing slavery, both to and from the Governor of British East Africa, J Hayes Sadler; reports on the impact of the Mombasa - Victoria railway; papers discussing famine in the mission area; photographs of the missionaries and local people; newscuttings on the political situation in Uganda and on the African labour problem; and descriptions of the celebrations in Hoima for the accession of Kabaka Andareya (1903). As such, the material included here not only offers much on the work undertaken by the CMS missionaries but also features evidence for those interested in the cultural anthropology of the region, in comparative religions, and in the social, political and economic history of Uganda. June 2003 - £1450 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page
Cabinet Papers: Complete classes from
the CAB & PREM series in the Public Record Office The 2003 update features minutes and memoranda for January - December 1972, drawn from the highest level of British governmental documents. The papers included here document the weekly Cabinet meetings held by the Prime Minister and his senior ministers, forming the apex of the whole governmental and civil service structure. In 1972, the Heath Administration was facing a Britain in crisis, with intense industrial unrest, a gloomy outlook for the economy and Northern Ireland reeling from its worst year of the Troubles. Academics and researchers wishing to understand post-war Britain and how the government handled the problems of the early seventies will find these documents to be a highly valuable resource. June 2003 - £350 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page
Sex & Sexuality, 1640-1940: Literary,
Medical and Sociological Perspectives Taken from the Private Case Collection at the British Library, London, Part 3 covers the years 1657 - 1889. It includes a wide range of erotic material from "pseudo-medical manuals" and "pseudo-travelogues" to novels, magazines, poems and songs, many of them vividly illustrated. Part 3 will allow scholars of literature, history, art, medicine and sexuality to compare pornographic and erotic material from three different centuries and many different cultures. It will prove an invaluable addition to any research library. July 2003 - £1700 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page Industrial Revolution: A Documentary
History: Series Two: Papers of John Rennie (1761-1821), Thomas
Telford (1757-1834) The engineers John Rennie and Thomas Telford were key figures in the Industrial Revolution. Their contribution to the development of Britain's industrial landscape in the form of roads, bridges and canals is richly documented in this collection, drawn from the holdings of the National Library of Scotland. Part 2 focuses mainly on the papers of John Rennie. His notebooks, plans and drawings cover his work on bridges, canals and harbours. Also included in Part 2 are the papers of Thomas Telford with particular focus on his Scottish projects, such as the Broomielaw Bridge in Glasgow and Aberdeen Harbour. Letters written to Robert Stevenson from Sir Walter Scott and Isambard Kingdom Brunel also form part of this collection and will be of great interest to the reader. July 2003 - £1700 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page
Church Missionary Society Archive:
Section III: Central Records Each issue of Awake! A Missionary Magazine for General Readers, covering 1891-1921, contains an Editor's Letter alongside letters to the Editor, poetry and news from all the mission areas, including Africa, India, China and Japan, the Near East and North West America. There is also a considerable amount of illustrations and photographs. The continuation, Eastward Ho!, covering the years 1922-1940, is also divided by mission area and contains detailed news regarding the work of the missionaries with much on the life and customs of the local people. These issues are also abundantly illustrated. Awake! and Eastward Ho! offer researchers a rounded picture of the work of the missions over a period of almost fifty years and will be a useful tool for researchers comparing and contrasting the work of the Society during this time. August 2003 - £1100 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page
Sensation Fiction: Part 1: Diaries,
Notebooks and Literary Manuscripts of Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) Mary Elizabeth Braddon was one of the most successful and controversial writers of her generation, rated alongside Wilkie Collins as the inventor of the sensation genre. Parts 1 & 2 of Sensation Fiction contain her diaries, notebooks and literary manuscripts from the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin. As an actress, Braddon was able to experience a life barely glimpsed by most middle class Victorian women but left the theatre to become stepmother to the publisher John Maxwell's five children, and to concentrate on writing. Success soon followed, winning her fame and fortune for novels such as Lady Audley's Secret and Aurora Floyd. Her portrayal of strong and assertive women has ensured that her life and work is now an increasingly popular area of study for all those examining nineteenth-century literature, culture and society. This microfilm project aims to make both her work and life more accessible, opening up new areas of research into Braddon and her fiction. August 2003 - £800 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page Women's Language and Experience, 1500-1940:
Women's Diaries and Related Sources Part 5 has been taken from sources held
at Essex Record Office. It covers the lives of a further eleven
women, with 86 volumes spanning the period 1769 to 1899. Included
within this part is:
Women's diaries have previously fulfilled the roles of friends, confessional, scrapbook and analyst. This collection now offers scholars the opportunity to use diaries, commonplace books and journals as a revealing historical source stretching through some three centuries. August 2003 - £1700 Adam Matthew Publications Home Page
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