Archival/written
The Salvation Army International Heritage Centre' holds the world's largest collection of manuscripts and correspondence by William Booth. This material is enhanced by a wide variety of associated material, including photographs, research papers, biographical material and correspondence between Booth's contemporaries. Details of the collection can be searched via the online catalogue www.calmview.eu/SalvationArmy/CalmView
Details of other collections of Booth archival material in the United Kingdom and elsewhere:
The British Library, Add MSS 64799-64806. Correspondence and papers of William and Catherine Booth, [1847]-[late 1870s?].
Canterbury Cathedral Archives, CCA-DCc-Farrar/C/13/2 and 4-5, Correspondence with Dean Farrar, 1890-1897.
Lambeth Palace Library, MSS/3406/62, Letter to A F Winnington-Ingram, Bishop-elect of London, 1901.
Lambeth Palace Library, FP/Jackson/55/18-19, Letter to Bishop John Jackson re The Eagle Tavern and The Grecian Theatre, 1882.
Lambeth Palace Library, AA/AP/Benson/61/380-90, 396-402 and /100/107-10, 113-17, Correspondence with Archbishop Benson, 1888 and 1891.
Lambeth Palace Library, AA/AP/Tait/161-296/258/11-20, 35, 47-48, Correspondence with Archbishop Tait, 1882.
London School of Economics, GARDINER/1/4, Letter to Alfred George Gardiner, 15 April 1908
Nottinghamshire Archives, DD/MI/263/1/32, 56-62, 172 and 273, Correspondence with the Lettings Sub-Committee of the Nottinghamshire Mechanics Institution, 1885-1886.
The Women's Library, 3JBL/29/01, Letter to Josephine Butler, 1890.
The Women's Library, 3JBL/42/57, Letter to Dr Charles Bell Taylor, June 1899.
Georgetown University, Lauinger Library, Papers of Commissioner Richard Wilson, Correspondence with William Booth, c1875-c1912.
The Salvation Army International Heritage Centre holds a wide variety of material relating to William Booth. Some of this is described in the Heritage Centre’s on-line catalogue (www.calmview.eu/SalvationArmy/CalmView) but it is also recommended contacting the Heritage Centre for more information on its holdings (heritage@salvationarmy.org.uk)