OWEN, ROBERT 1771-1858
Correspondence, consisting of nearly 3000 items, mainly letters to Owen, 1821-1858, but including a few drafts and copies of out-letters and other documents.
Owen papers, Co-operative Union Ltd, Manchester.
A small group of letters (about ten) to Owen, 1830-1858, and about 70 typescript copies of letters and parts of letters, 1822-1851.
NLW, MSS. 14352, 18894.
Two letters, a scrapbook containing manuscript material and a draft of the Report to the County of Lanark, c. 1818-1820.
London UL, A.L.s 146 and 266, MSS. 578 and 692.
His diary, 1813-1822, and business records of his period at New Lanark.
Gourock Ropeworks Co. papers, NRA 10832.
Correspondence, financial and other records of Owen and the New Harmony Community, 1824-1829, including many Owen family papers.
Workingmen’s Institute, New Harmony, Indiana.
Minute book of the Central Board of the Association of All Classes of All Nations, 1838-1840. Minute book of the Directors of the National Community Friendly Society, 1838-1843. Minute book of the Directors of the Rational Society, 1843-1845.
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam.
Correspondents
THOMAS ALLSOP, c. 150 letters, 1832-1858. BL Add. MS. 46344.
JEREMY BENTHAM, nine letters, 1818-1823.
BL Add. MS. 33545.
HENRY PETER BROUGHAM, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, 40 letters, 1833-1858. Brougham papers, UCL
JAMES M. DORSEY, four letters, 1827-1828.
Dorsey-Owen papers, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis.
PHILIPP EMANUEL VON FELLENBERG, 20 letters (from Owen and his sons), 1818-1835.
Fellenberg MSS., Burgerbibliothek, Berne.
ARCHIBALD JAMES HAMILTON, one letter, 1828.
Hamilton papers, Motherwell Public Library.
ROBERT BANKS JENKINSON, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, nine items, 1818-1820.
BL Add. MSS. 38271-38574.
SAMUEL OLDKNOW, two letters, 1793. NLW, MS. 4956.
SIR ROBERT PEEL, six items, 1822-1846.
BL Add. MSS. 40349-40588.
SIR ROBERT JOHN WILMOT-HORTON, two letters, 1831. Catton collection, Derby Borough Library.
Printed Material
J. M. ELLIOTT, ‘The Owen Family Papers’, Indiana Magazine of History, LX 4 (1964).
J. F.C. HARRISON, Robert Owen and the Owenites ( London, 1969).
New Palgrave ; ODNB; Boase II 1291; ESS XI 517; IESS XI 351.
Portraits: BL(P); NPG; SNPG; Courtauld Institute.
