Manuscripts

William Morris collection

Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1876-1897
Call number: mssMorrisw
Creator: Morris, William (1834-1896)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: purchased in the Anderson Learmont sale, lot 570, January 1918.; provenance unknown, in library as of Maggs Bros., July 1950.; puchased from Sotheby's, lot 491, July 1957.; purchased from Maggs Bros., July 1972.; purchased from February 1973.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
Associated people: Allen, George, (1832-1907,); Batchelor, Joseph, (1832-1916,); Brooke, Stopford A. (1867-1962,); Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, (1869-1957,); Gere, Charles M. (1834-1912,); Hooper, William Harcourt, (1827-1910,); Hunt, William Holman, (1819-1899,); Quaritch, Bernard, (1862-1929,); Strange, Edward Fairbrother, (1860-1941,); Updike, Daniel Berkeley, (1832-1914,); Watts-Dunton, Theodore,
Associated organizations: Bernard Quaritch (Firm),; Kelmscott Press,; Macmillan & Co.,; Reeves & Turner,
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William Morris collection

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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William Morris Papers

Manuscripts

This collection contains the archival and manuscript portion of the Sanford and Helen Berger collection and primarily contains manuscripts, correspondence, and ephemera created by or related to 19th century English artist, decorator, poet, and printer William Morris (1834-1896) and his circle. Though this collection is named the William Morris Papers, the Bergers also collected manuscript and printed material related to nineteenth and twentieth century British Pre- Raphaelites, Fine Printing and private presses (Kelmscott Press and the Doves Press), architects, illustrators, and the Arts & Crafts movement (Morris & Co.). The William Morris Papers are perhaps unique among the Huntington's other holdings in that they are an integral part of a much larger collection of stained glass, furniture, tiles, pottery, art work and printed books, making it one of the premier nineteenth century Arts & Crafts collections in the world. The papers consist of the following series: 1. Manuscripts (Boxes 1-2, Oversize Material Box 19, Folder 1)) are arranged alphabetically by author and title. Included in this series are: a minute book, notes, personal reminiscences, lectures, poems, prose narratives and essays. This series includes manuscripts by many authors, most notably by: Edward Burne- Jones, Sydney C. Cockerell, Walter Crane, John Henry Dearle, William F. De Morgan, Frederick E. Startridge, Alice Macdonald Fleming, William Minto, William Morris, Eden Phillpotts and Charles Canning Winmill. 2. Correspondence (Boxes 3-13) is arranged alphabetically by author. This series includes letters from notable people in the literary, arts, fine printing, publishing and architectural fields in England during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including: Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Ford Madox Brown, Edward Burne-Jones, Georgiana Burne-Jones, T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, Sydney C. Cockerell, Walter Crane, Evelyn De Morgan, William F. De Morgan, H. Buxton Forman, Arthur Hughes, Edward R. Hughes, William Holman Hunt, W.R. Lethaby, J.W. Mackail, John Everett Millais, Jane Burden Morris, May Morris, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Simeon Solomon, Emery Walker, Philip Webb and Charles Canning Winmill. 3. Ephemera and Miscellaneous (Boxes 14-18, Oversize Material Box 19, Folders 2-5) is arranged by subject. It comprises approximately 300 items and includes: photocopies of Account Books and various letters, printed material, material removed from scrapbooks, photographs, clippings, material related to Philip Henderson's Morris biography and material related to Peter Stansky's work on The House of Wolfings.

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William Morris and May Morris letters

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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Robert Morris collection

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.

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Photocopies and edited typewritten transcriptions of William Morris to Catherine Holiday letters, (89 p.)

Manuscripts

Also enclosed: typewritten letter from Sidney E. Berger to Sanford Berger, Feb. 27, 1980, with typewritten Introduction and autograph note. Note: copies made from Morris letters now in the Huntington William Morris Papers, please consult Finding Aid for call numbers.

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[Henderson, Philip, 1906-]. William Morris: [synopsis], (7 p.)

Manuscripts

Archival and manuscript portion of the Sanford and Helen Berger collection. In addition to the papers of William Morris and his associates, the collection also includes materials on nineteenth and twentieth century British Pre-Raphaelites, fine Printing and private presses -- Kelmscott Press, (including the Kelmscott Chaucer), and the Doves Press, architects, illustrators, and the Arts & Crafts movement .

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