Henry Gardiner Adams

Henry Gardiner Adams (c.1811–1881) was an English druggist and chemist, known as an author and anthologist.^[1] He wrote juvenile literature under the pseudonym Nemo.^[2]

Life

Adams acted as secretary to the Mechanics Institute at Chatham. He was also involved in the early days of the Percy Society. Bankruptcy proceedings against his druggis and chemist business in Burgate Street, Canterbury were announced in 1872. He died at Gillingham, Kent on 1 May 1881.^[3][4][5][6]

Edited works

The Kentish Coronal, frontispiece etching by Richard Dadd^[7]

• The Kentish Coronal (1841). Adams contacted Charles Dickens in 1840 about contributing to a Kentish journal, but Dickens declined.^[8][9] Arthur Brook (John Chalk Claris) did contribute.^[10]
• Flowers; their moral, language, and poetry (1844)^[11]
• The Peace Reading-book (1844)^[12]
• The Language and Poetry of Flowers (1853 and later editions, US editions from 1844).^[13][14] This anthology was Christian in tone, and aimed at a female audience.^[15]
• A Cyclopædia of Poetical Quotations (1853)^[16][17]
• A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (1854)^[18]
• God's Image in Ebony: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches, Facts, Anecdotes, Etc., Demonstrative of the Mental Powers and Intellectual Capacities of the Negro Race (1854), by Frederick William Chesson and Wilson Armistead^[19]
• A Cyclopædia of Female Biography (1857), revised edition, with Sarah Josepha Buell Hale^[20]

Natural history

Frontispiece to Favorite Song Birds

• Favorite Song Birds (1851)^[21]
• Cage and Chamber Birds (1853), translated and expanded from the German, and including British Warblers by Robert Sweet^[22]
• Nests and Eggs of Familiar British Birds (1854)^[23]
• Beautiful Butterflies; the British species described and illustrated (1854)^[24]
• Beautiful Shells (1855)^[25]
• Humming Birds Described and Illustrated (1856)^[26]
• The Sea-side Lesson Book (1856)^[27]
• The Wild Flowers, Birds and Insects of the Months (1862)^[28]
• The Smaller British Birds (1874), with Henry B. Adams.^[29]

Other works

• A Story of the Seasons (2nd edition 1855)^[30]
• Peace Lyrics (1856) dedicated to Elihu Burritt^[31]
• An Historical and Descriptive Account of Rochester Bridge (1856)^[32]
• The Weaver Boy who Became a Missionary: Being the Story of the Life and Labors of David Livingstone (1867)^[33]

Notes

1. Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson (1981). The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson: 1821–1850. Harvard University Press. p. 209 note 2. ISBN 978-0-674-52583-2.
2. Joanne Shattock (1999). The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: 1800–1900. Cambridge University Press. p. 2357. ISBN 978-0-521-39100-9.
3. Ray Desmond (25 February 1994). Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. CRC Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-85066-843-8.
4. Charles Dickens (8 November 2011). Letters of Charles Dickens: 1833–1870. Cambridge University Press. p. 31. ISBN 978-1-108-04004-4.
5. Thomas Deloney (1841). Strange histories: consisting of ballads and other poems. Percy Soc. p. 80.
6. "East Kent Liquidation Cases". Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald. 7 December 1872. Retrieved 16 August 2014 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
7. Patricia Allderidge (September 2008). Richard Dadd (1817–1886): Dreams of Fancy : a Loan Exhibition, Including Works from the Bethlem Royal Hospital, 2nd July–11th July, 2008. Andrew Clayton–Payne. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-9559480-0-8.
8. Henry Gardiner Adams, ed. (1841). The Kentish Coronal, original prose and poetry by persons connected with the county of Kent.
9. F. S. Schwarzbach (13 January 2014). Dickens and the City. A&C Black. pp. 240 note 15. ISBN 978-1-4725-0932-1.
10.  Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). "Claris, John Chalk". Dictionary of National Biography 10. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
11. Henry Gardiner Adams, ed. (1844). Flowers; their moral, language, and poetry.
12. Henry Gardiner Adams (1844). The Peace Reading-book: Being ... Selections ... Condemnatory of the Principles and Practices of War, and Inculcating Those of True Christianity ... C. Gilpin.
13. Karla Armbruster; Kathleen R. Wallace (2001). Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism. University of Virginia Press. p. 124 note 5. ISBN 978-0-8139-2014-6.
14. Henry Gardiner Adams (1864). Language and Poetry of Flowers. J. B. Lippincott & Company.
15. Susanna Morrill (2006). White Roses on the Floor of Heaven: Mormon Women's Popular Theology, 1880–1920. Taylor & Francis. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-415-97735-7.
16. H. G. Adams, ed. (1853). A Cyclopædia of Poetical Quotations.
17. Beverly Seaton (10 October 2012). The Language of Flowers: A History. University of Virginia Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-8139-3453-2.
18. H. G. Adams, ed. (1854). A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations.
19. Frederick William Chesson; Wilson Armistead (1854). God's Image in Ebony: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches, Facts, Anecdotes, Etc., Demonstrative of the Mental Powers and Intellectual Capacities of the Negro Race. Partridge and Oakey.
20. Sarah Josepha Buell Hale; Henry Gardiner Adams, eds. (1857). A Cyclopædia of Female Biography ... [A revised abridgement, with additions, of "Woman's Record".] Edited by H. G. Adams. Groombridge&Sons.
21. Henry Gardiner Adams (1851). Favorite Song Birds; a description of the feathered songsters of Britain.
22. Johann Matthäus Bechstein; Henry Gardiner Adams (1853). Cage and Chamber Birds ... Translated ... With considerable additions ... compiled by H. G. Adams. Incorporating the whole of Sweet's British Warblers.
23. Henry Gardiner Adams (1854). Nests and Eggs of Familiar British Birds.
24. Henry Gardiner Adams (1854). Beautiful Butterflies; the British species described and illustrated.
25. Henry Gardiner Adams (1855). Beautiful Shells; their nature, structure, and uses familiarly explained.
26. Henry Gardiner Adams (1856). Humming Birds Described and Illustrated.
27. Henry Gardiner Adams (1856). The Sea-side Lesson Book: Designed to Convey to the Youthful Mind a Knowledge of the Nature and Uses of the Common Things of the Sea Coast. Groombridge & Sons.
28. Henry Gardiner Adams (1862). The Wild Flowers, Birds and Insects of the Months. Hogg.
29. Henry Gardiner Adams; Henry B. Adams (1874). The Smaller British Birds.
30. Samuel Halkett; Jón Andrésson Hjaltalín; Thomas Hill Jamieson (1867). Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates. W. Blackwood and sons. p. 29.
31. Henry Gardiner Adams (1856). Peace Lyrics.
32. Henry Gardiner Adams (1856). An Historical and Descriptive Account of Rochester Bridge, in Three Epochs, Being a Memorial of the Opening of the New Bridge, and the Taking Down of the Old. Macaulay.
33. Henry Gardiner Adams (1867). The Weaver Boy who Became a Missionary: Being the Story of the Life and Labors of David Livingstone. Thomas Whittaker.

External links

• Works by Henry Gardiner Adams at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Henry Gardiner Adams at Internet Archive