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[Collection of student essays on William Morris]

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Description: 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.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1970-1975.
Call number: 608868
Provenance: Purchased from Sanford and Helen Berger, 1999. From the Sanford and Helen Berger Collection.
Dimensions: 28 cm

William Morris collection

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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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William Morris collection

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Stanford, Leland

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1 item: 81-pp. copy (perfect binding with plastic cover and paper backing) of The Political Career of Leland Stanford, a thesis presented to the Dept. of History, University of Southern California (for M.A. degree) by Margaret Holt Mudgett, 1/9/1933. Stanford (1824-1893) was president of the Central Pacific Railroad and one-time governor of California.

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Miscellaneous Research Papers

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Contents include: Envelope containing various ephemera related to St. Paul American Church in Rome and its Burne-Jones mosaics. Photocopy of "Index to Collected Works of William Morris" from the University of Washington Library. Facsimile reprint of "Chants for Socialists" published by the William Morris Society Photocopy of article entitled "William Morris & His Types" by William Peterson. Ms inscribed to Berger from Peterson. Clipping from the Guardian Weekly, October 18, 1969 – article entitled "Memories of Morris" about Mary Elizabeth Higginson, a former employee of Merton Abbey. Photocopy of an article entitled "A Visit to William Morris" by W. Irving Way from Modern Art, 4(3), [Summer, 1896]. Photocopy of ms. "Memories of May Morris" by Sir Basil Blackwell. Reprint of article "1996 Gutenberg Prize Acceptance Remarks" by John Dreyfus from Sonderdruck aus Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1997. Inscribed on cover to the Bergers from John Dreyfus. Reprint of article by John Dreyfus "Spectrum: Designed by J. van Krimpen" from The Penrose Annual. Ms inscribed on cover by Dreyfus to Berger. Photocopy of article entitled "Some Examples of Tapestry Designed by Sir E. Burne-Jones and Mr. J. H. Dearle" from The Studio (1908). Photocopy of article entitled "Aggression and Utopia: A Note on William Morris's 'New From Nowhere'". Photocopy of the William Morris Gallery Quarterly Bulletin (Spring, 1961). Copy of essay by Frederick Kirchhoff "Travel as Anti-Autobiography: William Morris' Icelandic Journals". Typed essay "Liberty & Co. Ltd. Merton Abbey" (na). Photocopy of essay about Charles Nordhoff by D. E. Myrick Photocopy of Princeton University Library Chronicle, 2(3), Spring 1991 Various reprints of articles about fine bookbindings Ms. letter to Berger from Robert Hosmon dated August 11, 1971 In manila postal envelope - typed ms. signed letter dated December 65, 1968 and menu to Martin Speckter signed John (Dreyfus) – menu signed by the Bergers and Dreyfus.

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The collected works of William Morris [prospectus] : to be issued in twenty-four volumes under the editorship of Miss May Morris

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Prospectus for The collected works of William Morris, edited by Miss May Morris.

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William Morris and May Morris letters

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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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