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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 .
 

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  She prints the text of three of the articles, all unpublished apart from in Out West .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 .

 
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