Series II: Writings and Notes

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{"value"=>"<p>Included are manuscript (and some typescript) notes, drafts, and finished texts of articles, lectures, and occasional writings. There is a selection of Henry George's early writing as a California journalist and reformer, an extensive group of essays and lectures (and one interview) from his British tours of the 1880s, and a smaller number of items on the theory of the single tax and his involvements in American party politics and the labor movement.</p> <p> His major published work is represented here by the full autograph manuscript of <span class=\"title\">Progress and Poverty</span> (publ. 1879) and partial drafts and notes for the introductory matter and Books I and II of <span class=\"title\">The Science of Political Economy</span> (publ. 1897). The famous lecture, \"Moses,\" is represented in drafts, galleys, and a printed copy. Among the essays are studies of Abraham Lincoln, J. S. Mill, James Garfield, and Michael Davitt, several accounts of his travels and brief imprisonment in Ireland in 1882, and an explanation of his support for the Democrats in 1896. There are also several folders and one notebook of rough notes and extracts.</p>"}

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1865

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1865

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1896

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1865

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1896

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1. "Mormonism" and "The Poetry of Life"
2. "Aim for the Best"
3. "A Plea for the Supernatural"
4. "On the Profitable Employment of Time"
5. "Abraham Lincoln" editorial in the Daily Alta California
6. "Dust to Dust", The Californian
7. Editorials on John Stuart Mill and Chinese immigration, Oakland Daily Transcript
8. Editorial in the San Francisco Evening Post of
9. Speech made during presidential campaign of
10. Letter re Smith's communications to S. F. Chronicle
11. [Lecture notes?]
12. Notes for Progress and Poverty
13. "Lecture on the New Constitution" (California)
14. Lecture notes, Britain
15. Notes and extracts re: Britain
16. Letter in defense of Michael Davitt and the Irish Land League
17. Lecture notes and text: "Malthusian Theory"
18. Article: "Garfield or Hancock?" (not printed)
19. Unidentified lectures
20. Editorials: "John Swinton and His Travels" and "The Newest Thing in Cookstoves" [for NY Herald?]
21. "Visit to Bishop Nulty"
22. Report prepared for A. S. Hewitt
23. Lecture to Ladies Prisoners Aid Society
24. "Travels in the West of Ireland"
25. "Jailed in Ireland"
26. "England and Ireland" Fortnightly Review
27. Lecture on the Irish land question: Dublin Rotunda
28. Interview on Irish nationalist politics
29. Lecture notes
30. "British Rule in Ireland"
31. Extract from Social Problems
32. Lecture notes: Brooklyn Revenue Reform Club
33. "Wanted - a Democratic Party" Brooklyn Revenue Reform Club
34. Lecture notes: "Land and Labor" [Binghamton, NY?]
35. "The Eighth Commandment"
36. "Moses" - drafts, galleys, printed copy
37. Lecture at Midland Institute, Birmingham. Transcript
38. On post-election politics in America
39. "The Issue of the Future" [for Brooklyn Eagle?]
40. Speech before the International Typographical Union, New York
41. Letter to the Conference of Labor Associations
42. "The Irish Question from an American Standpoint"
43. On rent and land tenure [by H. G.?], with notations by T. F. Walker
44. Letter to the Standard, from Newcastle
45. Henry George's critique of T. F. Walker, with Walker's reply
46. "Letter from Italy"
47. Letter from Australia (unsent)
48. "Address made at City Hall, Glasgow" transcript
49. "Speech in House of Representatives"
50. Two resolutions on taxation (N. Y. State) [by H. G.?]
51. Part of unidentified book ms. [by H. G.?] Letterpress copy
52. On his support for the Democratic Party
53. "Resolutions Passed [at]... Central Labor Union"
54. "Concerning General Grant"
55. "The Distribution of Wealth"
56. Lecture to British audience on ethics, poverty, and land reform
57. On his efforts to enlist in the war in Mexico
58. On Rome
59. Lecture: On the American Republic
60. Fragment: "Practical Political Economy"
61. Railroad article notes
62. Resolutions re: Senator Mills and tariff [by Henry George?]
63. Fragments of manuscripts and notes
64. Notebook, miscellaneous extracts
65. Progress and Poverty, manuscript
66. Science of Political Economy, incomplete manuscript and galleys