Rare Books
Contents include:
Stamp sheet/first day cover for William Morris "Strawberry Thief" 1883
Two sets of Royal Mail Mint Stamps "British Textiles"
Ten (10) Morris-themed postcards and greeting cards, all blank.
Blank postcard labeled "Exterior of Bacton Church"
Blank postcard labeled "Nave and Chancel of Bacton Church"
Lonigan, Dennis & Shar[…]. To Sandy & Helen Berger. Postcard of the Roycroft Inn. Undated.
Morris print decorative folder containing a program for "Sunday at Kelmscott House" containing various signatures. Insider back cover of folder inscribed "For Sanford and Helen Berger" with various signatures.
Single page with illustration of J.H.Dearle's "Persian" wallpaper
Single page with photocopy of colored Morris wallpaper or textile design
In white envelope, various blank, Morris-themed greeting cards and postcard and three blank, b/w postcards of Red House.
Four (4) unidentified b/w photographs of stained glass installations and cartoons.
Clipping illustrating Morris' "Blackthorn" wallpaper
Clipping illustrating R. Norman Shaw designed chair
Fourteen (14) b/w photographs of cartoons for stained from the William Gallery collection – ms inscribed on reverse with title, initials W.M.G. and William Morris Gallery collection catalog number. One (1) b/w photograph ms inscribed on reverse "Jesus College Cambridge / north side of nave roof".
Two (2) b/w photographs - stained glass cartoon and design stamped on reverse "Reserved by the University of Oxford/ Ashmolean Museum/ Department of Western Art".
Seven (7) unidentified slides of stained glass window installation
B/w photograph of Castle Howard Morris screen of Flamma Troiae, Hippolyte and Woman with a Sword. Ms inscribed on reverse "Castle Howard/ GK4301/NFS/1 (Whole) William Morris C. 1860 (Req. No. T. 69/1980"
Seventeen (17) color photographs, some dated 6/7/94, of various views of the Morris stained glass windows at Bradford Cathedral in West Yorkshire, England.
Five unidentified photographs
Two negatives of Berger's Morris collection at home
Transparency of a Burne-Jones cartoon of a knight.
Christmas greeting card dated Sept. 19. 1967 from William Morris Gallery , inscribed greeting signed [illegible]
Five (5) b/w photographs (removed from envelope) of stained glass and cartoons with typed paper slip enclosed "Details of East Window, Middletown Cheney, Northanthshire, 1865…"
Three unidentified clippings
The Arts of the Book:… The Splending Library Formed by the Late Charles C. Kalbfleisch. Park-Bernet Galleries, January 10-11, 1944.
Photocopies of designs
Photocopy of a drawing of Morris
Paper-clipped together: 16 pages of typed notes with unsigned ms. corrections (probably in the hand of Mr. Berger) and (probably) slide numbers for an address on Morris' decorated manuscripts. Undated and for an unspecified audience and venue
Single sheet typed newsletter (1989, July) of the William Morris Society in the United States on "The Doheny Morris Sale" with unsigned ms. annotations (probably in the hand of Mr. Berger)
TLS from Ellen Shaffer, Curator of The Silverado Museum to Mr. and Mrs. Sanford L. Berger (1989, May 13) regarding the Doheny Sale.
13 pages of unsigned ms. notes (probably in the hand of Mr. Berger) and (probably) slide numbers for an address on Morris' ideas of pattern designing. Undated and for an unspecified audience and venue.
Paper-clipped together: Photocopy copy of 12 pages of types note with unsigned ms. corrections (probably in the hand of Mr. Berger) for an address on William Morris for probably the Society of Mayflower Descendants/State of California
Photocopy copy of 1 page typed agenda for the November 4, 1989 meeting of the Society of Mayflower Descendants/State of California
Photocopy copy of a map labeled "The Origins of the Pilgrims".
Color photocopy of photograph depicting Berger in his living room pointing out a feature of stained glass window to an observer.
Manila envelope labeled "Self-Portraits for J.G.D."
Various ms notes and photocopies of layouts related to a work entitled "William Morris: Self-Portraits in Stained Glass" for John G. Dreyfus on his 80th Birthday 15 April 1998 with admiration and love from Helen and Sanford Berger Kelmscott Carmel"
