Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902 (writer and artist)
Biography
Samuel Butler (1835-1902), writer and artist, was educated at Shrewsbury School and St John's College, Cambridge, before he emigrated to New Zealand in 1859. On his return to England he studied painting at Heatherley's School, and had his work exhibited at the Royal Academy. Butler attacked Darwin's law of natural selection in his written works, which included Unconscious memory (1880). He was also an original topographer of Italian Switzerland and a critic of Italian art. He composed music with H. Festing Jones in London, and was a student of Homer, publishing prose translations of the Iliad (1898) and the Odyssey (1900).
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Samuel Butler: Correspondence to H.F. Jones and Francis Jenkinson, 1885-1899
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Samuel Butler: Unconscious Memory
Draft of Samuel Butler's Unconscious Memory, 397 folios.
Upware Republic Society: Visitors' Book
Visitors' book, in various hands, listing members of Cambridge University who visited Upware, 6 November 1851 - 14 May 1856, with notes and remarks, 46 folios. Inside the front cover is the bookplate of Arthur B. Gray.
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