Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
A collection of songs, by the inimitable Captain Morris. Part the first
Image not available
Rare Books
Image not available
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Image not available
Rare Books
143658
Image not available
Rare Books
218940
Image not available
Manuscripts
Collection of personal and business correspondence of Robert Morris. The collection was assembled at the library from items purchased from various dealers from 1917 to 1925. Included is business correspondence between the firm Willing, Morris & Co. and Richard Champion, a Bristol merchant; Morris's letters to Nathanael Greene; family and personal correspondence; and papers related to the litigation involving the estate of Richard Champion, the heirs of Robert Morris, and the State of South Carolina, from 1825 to 1837. Also included are typescript transcripts of letters pertaining mainly to the business affairs of Robert Morris from 1759 to 1799.
mssMorrisr
Image not available
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.
mssMorrisw
Image not available
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.
mssMorrisw