Smith, W. H. (William Henry) 1825-1891

Overview

Works:	28 works in 46 publications in 3 languages and 854 library holdings
Genres:	Autographs History Personal narratives‡vConfederate Portraits Photographs Commercial treaties Personal narratives Glossaries, vocabularies, etc Sources Manuscripts
Roles:	Author, Former owner
Classifications:	DA565.S63, 941.0810924

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about W. H Smith

W.H. Smith by Eric Alexander Akers DOUGLAS( Book )
Life and times of the right Honourable William Henry Smith, M.P by Herbert Maxwell( Book )
Memorial to the Most Honourable, the Marquis of Salisbury, K.G. and the Right Honourable W.H. Smith, M.P., First Lord of the Treasury by London and National Society for Women's Service( Book )
Memorial to the Most Honourable the Marquis of Salisbury : and the Right Honourable W.H. Smith, First Lord of the Treasury( )
Life of the Right Honourable William Henry Smith, M.P. by Herbert Maxwell( Book )

Life and Times of the Right Honourable William Henry Smith : With Portraits and other Illustrations. In Two Volumes by Herbert Maxwell( )
Very british conspiracy by John Dekker( Book )
Life of William Henry Smith by Herbert Maxwell( Book )
Life and times of the right Honourable William Henry Smith, M.P. by Herbert Maxwell( Book )
William Henry Smith by Alfred Bryan( Visual )
Life of the Right Honourable William Henry Smith by Herbert Maxwell( Book )
Wm. Henry Smith, the first English Baconian( Visual )

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Most widely held works by W. H Smith

Conservative finance and Liberal fallacies : speeches delivered in the House of Commons : during the debate on the Budget, April 24th & 28th, 1879 by W. H Smith( )

2 editions published in 1879 in English and held by 70 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Special report from the Select committee on the public works loans acts amendment bill and public works loans acts consolidation bill, consolidated into the public works loans bill; together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence, appendix and index. Ordered, by the House of commons, to be printed, 26 July 1875 by Great Britain( Book )

2 editions published in 1875 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Aus dem Manchester-guardian. Vortag des Parlamentsmitglieds by W. H Smith( Book )

1 edition published in 1887 in German and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Incipit liber cronicar[um] Euxebii Hieronymi cum superadditis diui hieronymi & Prosperi. Præfatio Hieronymi by Eusebius( Book )

in Latin and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

W.H. Smith by Eric Alexander Akers DOUGLAS( Book )

1 edition published in 1965 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

American and English literary and historical papers collected by Atcheson L. Hench( )

in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

Single items of interest include Homer Saint-Gaudens to Charles Elmer Rice agreeing to do his best; Camille Saint-Saëns declining an invitation; John Singer Sargent thanks Sir George Henschel for an invitation (copy). Catharine Maria Sedgwick to Mary Russell Mitford on the lack of culture in the United States; Walter W. Skeat writes concerning his work on "Piers Plowman" and an unidentified manuscript; a letter from Wiliam Henry Smith to Charles Dickens on a visit to the house "Greenland"; Stephen Spender to Herbert W.K. Fitzroy concerning a stint as writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia; Edward Stanly to Henry A. Wise on a challenge to duel; Frank R. Stockton sends Amelie Amélie Troubetzkoy apples from the Piedmont region

Return to an address of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 16 July 1885... showing separately the numbers and admissions to hospita... on account of primary venereal sores, secondary syphilis and gonorrhoea...( Book )

1 edition published in 1885 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

The Society of Authors (Incorporated) : correspondence between the Right Hon. W.H. Smith, the Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone, and the Society of Authors, on certain regulations concerning the administration of the civil list pensions( Book )

1 edition published in 1889 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

Correspondence by Francis Bennoch( )

in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

Concerning Bennoch's own writing and that of others, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sir Walter Scott, Mary Mitford, and Bret Harte; mentioning some of the social causes with which Bennoch was involved, such as refugee relief, certain public works, and education; discussing the Crimean War and its veterans; regarding his membership in the antiquarian group called the Noviomagus Society

to J. E. Millais by W. H Smith( )

1 edition published in 1882 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

Concerning a view of the portrait of Lord Salisbury

Papers of Samuel Timmins by Samuel Timmins( )

in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

Letters, postcards, clippings, pamphlets and other material compiled by Samuel Timmins. (1-21) Letters and postcards written to Timmins and W.H. Wyman. Correspondents include: C.M. Ingleby, Ignatius Donnelly, W.H. Wyman, and George James. The letters primarily discuss the Bacon-Shakespeare question and Donnelly's cipher. (5) From Ignatius Donnelly to Timmins includes a photograph portrait of Donnelly. (6) is a letter-less envelope from Wyman to Timmins. (11) Includes a ticket for "Samuel Timmins and Lady" to a meeting of the Bacon Society at the Westminster Town Hall on April 17, 1888. (15) Includes a clipping concerning the mathemethician George Parker Bidder's examination of Donnelly's cipher. (16) Includes a newspaper clipping from the Daily inter ocean with a cartoon depicting Donnelly as a pig. (21) Consists of sixteen letters pinned together from George James (to Timmins?) and entitled "A 'Bacon' Lunatic." (22) Is a printed circular letter from Mrs. Henry Pott, dated January 30, 1889, disparaging the creation and use of facsimile copies of the first folio for cryptographers, since the process eliminates valuable manuscript marks. (23) A printed broadside containing "All Hail to the Shrine," a song by J.E. Carpenter criticising Donnelly. (24) A printed advertisment of R.S. Peale & Co. Publishers for The great cryptogram by Ignatius Donnelly featuring excerpts from reviews by mathematicians, authors, senators, and journalists. (26) Notebook of copies of letters, 1864-1866, from Nathaniel Holmes and W.H. Smith to James Spedding. (27) 26 newspaper clippings pertaining to Donnelly. (28) Two copies of Bacon out-Shakespeared! by A. Pimpleton Spoffkins, London: T. Rodd, 1887. (29) The true cryptogram of Francis Bacon, by L.H. Stevens, Philadelphia: Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1887. (30) The little cryptogram : Lord Bacon's prophecy concerning Ignatius Donnelly by J. Gilpin Pyle, St. Paul: Pioneer Press Co., 1888. (31) No cipher in Shakespeare, by Rev. A. Nicholson, LL. D., London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1888. Includes four newspaper clippings and three printed circular letters from William Southern all pertaining to the activities of Rev. Nicholson as well as another pamphlet entitled A reply answered: the hon. Ignatius Donnelly's reply to my "refutation," replied to by the Rev. A. Nicholson, LL. D., Stratford-on-Avon: Edward Fox, 1889. (32) Raleigh wrote Shakespeare or, the grate crab-tree-cram, Glasgow: David Robertson & Co., 1888. (33) The Bacon-Shakespeare controversy: a plea for the plaintiff, vol. I-III, Birmingham: The Midland Educational Company, Limited and Walter Husband, 1894-1895

In hoc volvmine continentvr infrascripta opera Xenophontis ... by Xenophon( Book )

1 edition published in 1505 in Latin and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

W.H. Smith & Son book sale catalogs by W.H. Smith & Son( Book )

in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

Army (Egypt and the Soudan : papers relating to withdrawl of troops from province of Dongola by Great Britain( Book )

1 edition published in 1885 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

Letter from William Henry Smith, with related material by W. H Smith( )

in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

Comprises 1 autograph letter from William Henry Smith to Rev. R.W. Simpson dated 4 May 1876 (with a transcript), a press-cutting concerning the Channel Tunnel Bill extracted from a newspaper for 6 June 1890, and an obituary for Mr W.H. Smith extracted from a newspaper for 7 October 1891

London coal and wine dues. Report of proceedings on deputation from the Mining Association of Great Britain and manufacturers and large consumers of coal in London, to the First Lord of the Treasury, on the 15th March, 1887 by Mining Association of Great Britain( Book )

1 edition published in 1887 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

Conservative finance and Liberal fallacies : speeches delivered in the House of Commons by the Right Hon. W.H. Smith ... Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson ... and the Right Hon. Sir Stafford H. Northcote ... during the debate on the Budget, April 24th & 28th, 1879 : corrected on authority by W. H Smith( )

1 edition published in 1879 in English and held by 0 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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