WILLIAM MORRIS PAPERS. Vols. V, VI. Correspondence of Philip Speakman Webb, architect, with members of the Morris family, mainly with Mrs Morris; 31 Oct. 1868-6 Aug. 1912. For further letters of Webb, see also Add. MSS. 45354, 45355, described pp. 167-168 below.
WILLIAM MORRIS PAPERS. Vols. IX-XI. Correspondence and papers of May Morris, including a few letters addressed to her mother and her sister Jenny,; 1880-1938. The names of the writers of letters will be found in the Index to the present Catalogue. Three vols. arranged as follows:-
WILLIAM MORRIS PAPERS. Vol. XIV. Three small books of verses, mottoes, etc., in English, French, Italian, Latin, and Greek, written calligraphically as keepsakes, apparently by Mrs Morris; 1885, after 1888, n.d.
Scope & Content:
Commonplace Books: Mrs W. Morris: aft. 1888, n.d. Calligraphy: Mrs J. Morris; commonplace-books: aft. 1888, n.d. Jane Morris, wife of William Morris: Wrote: aft. 1888, n.d.
WILLIAM MORRIS PAPERS. Vols. XVII B-XXI. Journals of William Morris; 1881-1896. Printed annual desk diaries with his daily, or less frequent, MS. entries for the periods noted below. Used by J. W. Mackail, Life of William Morris, 1899. As follows:-
Scope & Content:
William Morris, poet and artist: Desk diaries: 1881-1896.: Printed with autogr. entries. Diaries and Memoranda: W. Morris: 1881-1896.
E. LETTER BOOKS 45438-45440. ANDERSON PAPERS. Vols. XXII-XXIV (ff. 163, 100, i + 47). Letter Books of Anderson containing copies or abstracts of his letters to various correspondents (original letters from many of whom occur in the previous twenty-one volumes);
FRAZER NOTE-BOOKS. Vols. I-XL. The 'Unclassified' note-books: anthropological extracts and notes, mainly from printed sources. Much of the contents was published by Frazer in Anthologia Anthropologica, ed. R. A. Downie, 4 vols. 1938-1939, where (in The Native Races of Africa and Madagascar, facing p. 4) 45468, f. 93b, is reproduced. 45467-45481 are arranged on a rough geographical basis; the remainder are miscellaneous, but 45457-45466 are derived solely from periodicals. In most of the volu...