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Photocopy collection of student essays on the subject of William Morris. The majority appear to be by Stanford University students, but contents include an M.A. dissertation by Ian J. Tod for Durham University, a reprint of an article "Aggression and Utopia" by Lionel Trilling from Psychoanalytic Quarterly XLII (1973), and a manuscript crossword puzzle. Several of the essays were later published in "The Morris essay book" / edited by Scott D. Baskin and Catherine Wendy Bracewell. Stanford, 1975.
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Visual Materials
Image of an advertisement for Miss Träumerel by Albert Morris Bagby featuring a seated woman playing the piano, large flowers in foreground.
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Manuscripts
HM 80229: a letter ([1914, Jan.]) from May Morris to Edward Perry Warren (A.L.S., 1 p.); has an A.N.S. by Warren on the bottom of the letter. Also enclosed is a photocopy of the Times column with a letter by May Morris, referred to in her letter to Warren.
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Manuscripts
A collection of business letters and documents related to William Morris, the Kelmscott Press, and fine printing. The letters deal with designs for books, acquisition of materials, and business appointments. The documents include a small rent book (January 12 to June 13, 1891), bills, receipts, lists of titles to be published, materials ordered, and legal contracts for publications. Some of the letters contain drawings by Morris or the recipient and a few letters have Morris's signature cut away, with some loss of text. Correspondents include, among others, George Allen, Joseph Batchelor, Stopford A. Brooke, Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, Charles March Gere, William Harcourt Hooper, William Holman Hunt, Bernard Quaritch, Edward Fairbrother Strange, Theodore Watts-Dunton, and the companies Bernard Quaritch (Firm), Macmillan & Co., and Reeves & Turner.
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A collection of business letters and documents related to William Morris, the Kelmscott Press, and fine printing. The letters deal with designs for books, acquisition of materials, and business appointments. The documents include a small rent book (January 12 to June 13, 1891), bills, receipts, lists of titles to be published, materials ordered, and legal contracts for publications. Some of the letters contain drawings by Morris or the recipient and a few letters have Morris's signature cut away, with some loss of text. Correspondents include, among others, George Allen, Joseph Batchelor, Stopford A. Brooke, Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, Charles March Gere, William Harcourt Hooper, William Holman Hunt, Bernard Quaritch, Edward Fairbrother Strange, Theodore Watts-Dunton, and the companies Bernard Quaritch (Firm), Macmillan & Co., and Reeves & Turner.
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Manuscripts
Note: MOR 328 also contains two autograph pages and one typewritten page (with penciled notes) of names. The autograph pages are in the hand of May Morris; the typewritten page was possibly prepared by Miss Saunders. Some with envelopes and some are signed: M.M.
MOR 323-332.