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Commemorative booklet
(.pdf, 275KB): to mark the centenary of Massey's death, on October 29th,
1907.
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Obituary: Thomas Hood. The Scotsman, 14 May, 1845.
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Sedition: the prosecution of Massey's one-time associate, John
James Bezer, a Chartist, for Sedition, August 1848.
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The National Land
Scheme: an action for libel brought by Feargus O'Connor against
the Nottingham Journal. The London Illustrated News, 23
Feb., 1850.
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The State of Newgate:
a description of Newgate Prison and the conditions of its inmates. The
London Illustrated News, 23 Feb., 1850.
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Report of a Chartist
meeting; from The Northern Star and National Trades Journal,
April 27, 1850.
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Report of a Chartist
meeting; overflowing meeting at the John Street Institution
convened by the National Charter Association on behalf of incarcerated
political victims - Ernest Jones, John Shaw and others. The
speakers included Bronterre O'Brien, Julian Harney, J. J. Bezer, Walter
Cooper and Gerald Massey. From The Northern Star and National
Trades Journal, April 27, 1850.
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Letter of Dedication to Walter
Cooper, published in 'Voices of Freedom and Lyrics of Love' (1851).
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The Bucks Advertiser and Aylesbury News, May 1851. An
announcement of the publication of Massey's (now earliest surviving)
collection, 'VOICES OF FREEDOM AND LYRICS OF LOVE' - reprints extracts
from an article on Massey's early life taken from Eliza Cook's
Journal.
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Castle
Street Working Tailors: an (unfriendly)
open letter from
Ernest Jones to Massey, taken from Jones'
Notes To The People, probably January 1852. See also 'THE
WORKING TAILORS' ASSOCIATION, LONDON.
A Chapter Towards The Associative History',
by Gerald Massey, the co-operative to which Jones' remarks relate.
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Karl Marx: The Chartist Movement
(1852). Marx on Chartism —this article is probably more interesting
for his coverage of Ernest Jones
contesting the parliamentary seat at Halifax and the despicable British
electoral system of that age.
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Massey
advertising a lecture and
demonstration of 'Mesmerism and Clairvoyance', 1852.
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Massey
advertising for
lecture engagements, 1852.
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Preface
to the third edition of 'Poems and
Ballads' (1854).
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Letter,
Tennyson to Massey, 1 April 1854.
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Letter,
Tennyson to Massey, 11 July 1855.
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Letter,
Tennyson to Massey, 11 August 1855.
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Letter,
Tennyson to Massey, 3 January 1870.
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Letter of Dedication to William Sterling M.P. published in
'Craigcrook Castle' (1856).
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The 'Burns Centenary Poem' competition
- sponsored by the directors of the Crystal Palace Company in 1859.
This 'background' to the Competition is taken from the book subsequently
published by the Company, which contained fifty of the six hundred and
twenty-one entries that were submitted. The
winning entry
was by Miss Isa Craig -
Massey's entry
was placed fourth.
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Massey: a letter to The Scotsman about late-running
trains, December, 1859.
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HUGH MILLER'S GRAVE - a
poem by Gerald Massey. But who was Hugh Miller? See Samuel
Smiles' "Brief Biography" (ca 1861) below and the Hugh Miller
website.
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'Brief Biographies' by Dr Samuel Smiles:—
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J. B. Leno: a somewhat quirky article on Massey's one-time
fellow newspaper hack ― The Commonwealth, October 6, 1866.
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Shakspeare's Sonnets: Having read Massey's recently published book
on the subject, Professor Philarète Chasles (1798-1873), eminent French
critic and man of letters, writes to the Athenæum
(Feb. 1867) about aspects of 'The Sonnets', referring to "some very
hard words against the small fry of sceptical critics who fail to chime
in with the author's [Massey's] settled opinions" - the
inevitable Massian broadside in response is not long in coming!
Both articles are re-published here.
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At Jean Ingelow's for
morning tea - Massey fails to impress another visitor (Louisa M.
Alcott?) - The Living Age, Volume IV, 1867.
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Lyon v. Home: Massey's
affidavit in 'The Great Spiritual Case' - The Illustrated Police News,
1868.
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John Arnott (1799 – 1868):
a biographic sketch of the shadowy General Secretary of the
National Charter Association during its final years. By David Shaw.
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Cartoons published in Vanity Fair
(1871-72) of some of the notables David Shaw refers to in his
biography of Gerald Massey:
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Sow It Broadcast!
A tract by Gerald Massey promoting Spiritualism - The Medium And
Daybreak, February 16, 1877.
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The Proposed
Gerald Massey Fund: 'No
doubt the writer meant well, so did Romeo when he stepped in and caused
the death-wound of his dear friend Mercutio, by an action both futile
and fatal.' The
Medium And Daybreak, September 21, 1883.
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Gems from "THE NATURAL GENESIS":
the Drama of the Midnight Mysteries. The Medium And Daybreak,
October 12, 1883.
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Shakespeare's Sonnets in a New
Light: "so many literary folk have taken turns at the sonnets,
especially in the last fifty or sixty years, illuminating them with
darkness rather than light, explaining them opaquely by far fetched
theories, that Massey's generally direct, lucid method appears
exceptional."
Junius Henri
Browne in the
Brooklyn Eagle, 10 February, 1884.
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Letter to Professor John Stuart Blackie: inviting him to chair a
lecture. 4th Oct., 1886. An interesting example of Massey's
hand-writing "scrawl".
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Madame Blavatsky on Gerald
Massey's "lectures" and "Natural Genesis." Alas,
Madame B's "respected Guru in Egyptology" does not hold her in similar
high esteem... 'It is a delusion to suppose there is anything in the
experience or wisdom of the past, the ascertained results of which can
only be communicated from beneath the cloak and mask of mystery, by a
teacher who personates the unknown, accompanied by rites and ceremonies
belonging to the pantomime and paraphernalia of the ancient medicine men.'
The Agnostic Journal, Oct. 3rd, 1891.
[W. J. Linton's
opinion of Madame, recounted in his "Memories",
was not dissimilar to Massey's.... "One
sight of Madame was enough, a fat, vulgar-looking woman, not, one could
not help thinking, at all likely to be mistaken for a prophetess, no
sibyl but a veritable old witch, with nothing venerable about her."
Ed.]
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"Gerald Massey: Poet, Prophet and Mystic":
by B. O. Flower (1895).
In his essay, Flower analyses Massey's philosophy by
reference to his poetry and published lectures, later drawing some
interesting comparisons with Whittier ("The
titles poet, prophet and seer are as applicable to the one as to the
other"). Originally published as a
series of three articles in The Arena, (Boston) vols 8, 9, Dec.
1893 - Jan. 1894.
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The Golden City:
Massey's poem 'Jerusalem the
Golden', with illustrations by Frank Feller (The Art Lith. Publ.
Co., ca. 1906):
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Professor Max Müller and Gerald Massey;
T. May and W. H. Simpson conduct a none too friendly debate regarding
their contrary views on Müller, Massey, and evolution through the
columns of The Two Worlds (April - June, 1909).
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Illustration
(270KB) by Archibald Webb:
SIR RICHARD GRENVILLE'S LAST FIGHT
(ca 1912).
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Spiritualism: Massey on Spiritualism - an extract from Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle's 'NEW REVELATION' (ca 1918).
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Dr. Albert Churchward: brief descriptive information and diagram
adapted from Churchward's Origin and Evolution of the Human Race
(Allen, 1921) supporting Massey's evolutionistic theories on early
population migrations out of Africa.
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A Poet of
Yester-Year: from 'Pages in Waiting', by James Milne, The Bodley
Head, 1926. The author's reminiscences of Gerald Massey.
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Gerald Massey's Published lectures
(1887) : An Introduction: by David Shaw.
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The Egyptian Origins of Christianity: by Richard A. Sattleberg.
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Massey's evolutionistic concepts (from Chapter 9,
Gerald Massey: Chartist, Poet, Radical and
Freethinker): by David Shaw.
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Myth and Totemism as Primitive Modes of Representation: by Rey
Bowen.
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Nile Genesis: an introduction to the opus of Gerald Massey by
Charles S. Finch M. D. (January 2006).
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Judeo-Christian Genesis: the
Messeyan View, by Charles S. Finch M. D. (June 2007).
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Commemorative booklet
(.pdf, 275KB): to mark the centenary of Massey's death, on October 29th,
1907.
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A Short Critique of Gerald
Massey’s work on Shakesapeare’s Sonnets by
Ernie Wingeatt (December, 2008).
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