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Baker, William J.  “Charles Kingsley in Little London,” Colorado Magazine Vol. 45 (1968): 187-203.
In this illustrated article Baker discusses Kingsley’s trip to America and his sojourn in Colorado Springs in 1874.  Kingsley’s connection with and interest in this town stemmed from his son Maurice, who worked there as a railway engineer, and from his daughter Rose, who visited there in 1871-72.  After sketching the English community and the pervasive anglophilia of Colorado Springs, Baker provides a brief account of Kingsley’s visit there where he was particularly impressed by the natural beauties of the Pike’s Peak region. 
America ; Colorado Springs ; Nature .
 

Baker, William J.  “A Victorian Chapter in Anglo-American Understanding: Three Letters From Charles Kingsley to ‘Little London’, Colorado,” Notes and Queries Vol. 81 (March 1971): 91-97.
Baker publishes and discusses three letters Kingsley published in the Colorado Springs newspaper Out West. The first was a series of reflections on international relations and politics occasioned by the recovery of the Prince of Wales from typhoid fever. The second concerned the affair of the ship Alabama during the American Civil War; the third was a report on American visitors to Chester while Kingsley was a canon of Chester Cathedral. 
Colorado Springs ; America .
 

Bellows, Donald.  “A Study of British Conservative Reaction to the American Civil War,” The Journal of Southern History Vol. 51, No. 4. (Nov., 1985): 505-526.
Bellows declares that the racially prejudiced Kingsley believed that if the Southern states seceded in the American Civil War the slaves would be better off.  Then the South would be forced by English public opinion to treat the blacks better.  In Two Years Ago Kingsley argued that the free soil idea was preferable to slavery's abolition.  Once slavery was no longer allowed to expand, it would die. 
America ; American Civil War ; Slavery ; Racial Prejudices .
 

Martin, Robert Bernard (ed.).  Charles Kingsley's American Notes: Letters from a Lecture Tour, 1874 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1958).
Martin publishes twenty-four letters that Kingsley wrote to his wife Fanny from the United States and Canada while on a several month long lecture tour in 1874 with his daughter Rose.  These letters are in the Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists in the Princeton University Library.  Martin provides an introduction sketching Kingsley’s life and views together with an overview of the American tour.  He also briefly discusses some of the American reactions to this visit and some reviews of Kingsley’s lectures. 
America ; Letters from America .
 

Matthews, Ruth Estelle.  “Three Articles from the Pen of Charles Kingsley,” Stanford Studies in Language and Literature (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1941): 312-20.
Matthews discusses the background behind Kingsley’s publication of four articles in a Colorado Springs periodical, Out West.  She prints the text of three of the articles, all unpublished apart from in Out West.  They had originally been published on March 23, 1872, April 6, 1872, and June 20, 1872 respectively. 
America ; Colorado Springs .
 

Partington, Wilfred.  "Westward Ho! with Charles Kingsley," The Colophon: A Book Collector's Quarterly Vol. 3, Part xi (1933).
In January 1874 Kingsley embarked on the steamship Oceanic on an eleven day voyage to America. Partington discusses the chart, issued to the passengers, on which Kingsley indicated the course followed by the ship and the daily distance covered.  On the back of the chart Kingsley recorded his log of the voyage.  Partington also briefly mentions some of the major incidents in Kingsley's six month sojourn in America and Canada. 
Chart/Log of Voyage to America ; America .
 

Waller, John O. “Charles Kingsley and the American Civil War,” Studies in Philology Vol. 60, No. 3 (July 1963): 554-568.
This is a study of Kingsley's views on the American Civil War and his generally pro-Southern stance. Waller contends that numerous factors pre-disposed him towards this stance, for example the ties of birth and family that united him to a English social class that supported the South; his racism; the influence of the staunchly anti-Union views of his brother Henry;  the gallantry of the South that must have been attractive to his romantic susceptibilities; his dislike for such liberal Manchester School politicians as Bright, Cobden, and Forster who accounted for much of Parliament's pro-Northern leadership. 
America ; American Civil War ; Slavery ; Racial Prejudices .