BIBLIOGRAPHIC MATERIAL OF THE ICARIAN MOVEMENT IN CHELTENHAM AND RELATED MATERIALS

Materials whose first words are in this color red are materials I need in my library.

Materials whose first words are in this color are materials of which I know NO source of them. Any help in locating them would be appreciated.

• Beluze, J.CHELTENHAM  An 1858 document. My copy is a xerox copy of a xerox copy in the Missouri Historical Society collection. I believe it is a translation from the French since most of his materials on the Chelentham Icarians are in French. However, no translator is mentioned.

• Chicoineau, Jacques.  THE ICARIANS IN SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI.  Unpublished lecture. Read at MaComb, Illinois, April 27, 1979.

  Chicoineau traces the break up of the Nauvoo community, the movement of the "minority" group to St. Louis, the death of Etienne Cabet (and his burial in St. Louis), and the early days of the community in Cheltenham. Very useful material not available elsewhere in English.

• Hinds, William Alfred.  AMERICAN COMMUNITIES AND CO-OPERATIVE COLONIES.  Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co. 1908.

  Well researched and written section on the American Icarians. Pages 374-377 forcus explicitly on the Cheltenham Icarians. Quite useful.

• Holloway, Mark.  HEAVENS ON EARTH: UTOPIAN COMMUNITIES IN AMERICA 1680-1880.   New York: Library Publishers, 1951. I have only a xerox copy of the article on the Icarians.

  The chapter on the Icarians covers the whole movement. However, there is a section on Cheltenham Icarians. However, it seems derived from William Alfred Hinds' book.

• Larsen, Dale Richard.  "CONTRIBUTIONS OF EDOUARD E. MERITZ AND HIS DESCENDANTS TO THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI"  In: Reflections of Icaria, Magazine of the National Icarian Heritage Society. Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 1999. p. 4-7 and 12. Also reprinted in a slightly different version in: CONTRIBUTIONS OF ICARIANS TO AMERICA. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1990-93 COURS ICARIEN SYMPOSIA. Published by The National Icarian Heritage Society. P. 35-45.

  As the title suggests, Meritz, name of the president of the huge firm in St. Louis, was a descendant of one of the Cheltenham Icarians. The version of the article in the CONTRIBUTIONS volume has an extensive bibliography of materials on the Cheltenham Icarians.

• Rogers, Elizabeth Anne  THE HOUSING AND FAMILY LIFE OF THE ICARIAN COLONIES. Masters Thesis, University of Iowa, Department of Home Econimics, December,1973

  This study mentions all the U.S. communities, but focuses its study on the organization at Nauvoo, Illinois. Lots of useful detail about day to day life and living.

• Rowe, Louise D.  "The Organization of the Icaria/Cheltenham." In: SOLDIERS OF HUMANITY: A HISTORY AND CENSUS OF THE ICARIAN COMMUNITIES. Nauvoo, Illinois: The National Icarian Heritage Society, 1998. Also in this volume by Dale R. Larsen is a "Census of the St. Louis Icarian Community."

  The contents of the first article are just as the title says. The census is a full list of all the people who were registered in the 1960 United States Census and were living in the Cheltenham community. It includes nationality and place of birth, most of them from France or Switzerland.

• Shaw, Albert.  ICARIA: A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF COMMUNISM.  Philadelphia: Porcupine Press Inc., 1972 (reprint of 1884 edition).

  Less detailed aboutthe Cheltenham Icarians than Hinds' later book, but seems to have influenced Hines a great deal. Useful material on the Cheltenham group. Pages 67-72. Can be see in full on in the Icarian history section.  I have only a xerox copy of this work in my library