Search

Container Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 45298-45337 Language English Digitised Content No

1. Add MS 45298 A

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 45298 A
Title:
Scope & Content:
WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. I (ff. 135). Miscellaneous short poems and fragments, circ. 1853-1896, as follows:- (a) Juvenilia and early poems, arranged in the order of the list at ff. 1-3 (in an unidentified hand, possibly that of Jenny (Jane Alice) Morris). The MSS. in this sect...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1853-1896
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 45298 B

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 45298 B
Title:
Scope & Content:
WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. II (ff. 51). A quarto exercise-book containing copies in the hand of Jane Morris of a number of Morris's shorter poems. The originals of most of these can be found in 45298 A, to which references are given. These copies appear to have been used by May Mo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 45299-45309

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 45299-45309
Title:
WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. III-XIII. Drafts and copies of tales and poems for The Earthly Paradise (see C.W., vols. iii-vi). The work was published 1868-1870, but was begun much earlier. In C.W., xxiv, p. vii, May Morris gives the dates 'About 1865-1870' for 'Poems of The Earthly Paradise time', but in C.W., iii, p. xvi, she dates an early MS. of The Man born to be King in the period of 'Scenes from The Fall Of Troy', which is fixed at about 1857 both by her (C.W., ii, p. xiv...
Scope & Content:
Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: W. Morris; marginal sketches, etc.: late 19th cent. Poetry ENGLISH: W. Morris: poems: circ. 1853-1896.: Autogr. and copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1857-1870
Extent:
11 items

4. Add MS 45310-45316

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 45310-45316
Title:
WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vols XIV-XX. A series of note-books (45310-45315) and a collection of loose leaves (45316) containing drafts of the epic poem 'Sigurd the Volsung' (first published 1876; also C.W., vol. xii). There is also some material for and relating to Morris's translation of 'The Aeneids of Virgil' (see C.W., vol. xi) in 45310, 45311. These seven volumes, together with 37497-37498 (q.v.), contain the entire first draft of 'Sigurd the Volsung', written very roughly an...
Scope & Content:
Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: W. Morris; marginal sketches, etc.: late 19th cent. Poetry ENGLISH: W. Morris: poems: circ. 1853-1896.: Autogr. and copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1874-1875]
Extent:
7 items

5. Add MS 45317-45318

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 45317-45318
Title:
WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. XXI, XXII. Translations into English, mainly from Northern literature. According to May Morris, C. W., vii, p. xv, Morris first began his Northern studies in 1868. Viz.:-
Scope & Content:
Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: W. Morris; marginal sketches, etc.: late 19th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1865-1931]
Extent:
2 items

6. Add MS 45319 A-C

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 45319 A-C
Title:
B, C. WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. XXIII- XXV. Diaries (in the form of octavo ruled note-books and all written in pencil) kept by Morris on his two visits to Iceland in the summers of 1871 and 1873.
Scope & Content:
Iceland: Diaries of visits to, by W. Morris: 1871, 1873. Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: W. Morris; marginal sketches, etc.: late 19th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1871-1873
Extent:
3 items

7. Add MS 45320

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 45320
Title:
Scope & Content:
WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. XXVI (ff. i + 11) Homer's 'Iliad'. Copy in an unidentified hand of a translation up to line 214 of Book 1 from the Oxford edition of D. B. Monro and T. W. Allen (1902). According to May Morris, C. W., xiii, p. xiv, this was all that Morris completed, the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1902
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 45321

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 45321
Title:
Scope & Content:
WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. XXVII (ff. i + 65). 'Scenes From The Fall Of Troy', a dramatic poem begun circ. 1857 (see C.W., ii, p. xiv) but never completed. Apart from the copied fragments in 45298, ff. 107, 108, and 45308, ff. 195, 202, this appears to be the only extant MS. of th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 45322-45328

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 45322-45328
Title:
WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS, Vol. XXVIII- XXXIV. Prose and verse romances, some unpublished.
Scope & Content:
Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: W. Morris; marginal sketches, etc.: late 19th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1870-1897]
Extent:
7 items

10. Add MS 45329

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 45329
Title:
Scope & Content:
WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. VOL. XXXV (ff.ii + 99). 'Tristram', by Luces de Gast, draft of an unfinished translation of this medieval French romance, made 'about 1870' (according to a note by May Morris, f. i). The portion at ff. 89-99 is in Morris's 'fair' hand (see f. i) and has no co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1870
Extent:
1 item