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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 45298-45337

31. Add MS 45320

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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...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1902
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1 item

32. Add MS 45321

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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...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1857
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1 item

33. Add MS 45322

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Vol. XXVIII (ff. 443). The Water Of The Wondrous Isles, the main draft of the prose romance, written in 1895, and published at Kelmscott Press in 1897. ff. 1-438. According to Sir Sydney Cockerell's diary for that year, quoted in C.W., xx, p. xvii (cf. Add. MS. 52772, f. 17), the romance was beg...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1895
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1 item

34. Add MS 45322-45328

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WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS, Vol. XXVIII- XXXIV. Prose and verse romances, some unpublished.
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Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: W. Morris; marginal sketches, etc.: late 19th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1870-1897]
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7 items

35. Add MS 45323

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Vol. XXIX (ff. i + 201). The Water Of The Wondrous Isles, the printer's copy corresponding exactly to the text in C.W., vol. xx, nearly to the end of Part IV, Chapter 14, where it breaks off. From this point 45322 was used for the printer's text.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1870-1897]
Extent:
1 item

36. Add MS 45324

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Vol. XXX (ff. 47). 'The Widow's House by the Great Water', an unfinished prose tale consisting of 10 chapters and part of an 11th. According to May Morris, C.W., xx, p. xvii, it was 'superseded' by 'The Water Of The Wondrous Isles', which it resembles. (Cf. 45322, 45323, 45325).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1870-1897]
Extent:
1 item

37. Add MS 45325

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WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. XXXI (ff. 17). 'The Water of the Wondrous Isles': about 500 octasyllabic couplets in draft of the verse version. According to Sir Sydney Cockerell's diary quoted in C.W., xx, p. xvii (cf. Add. MS. 52772, f. 17), this was begun 4 Feb. 1895, but abandoned ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1895
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1 item

38. Add MS 45326

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WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. XXXII (ff. i + 288). Contents:- (1) 'The Sundering Flood', Morris's last completed romance; ff. 1-286. The tale, of which this is the unique MS., is in Morris's hand up to the middle of chapter 64 (ff 1-277), after which it was dictated to Sir Sydney C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1897
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1 item

39. Add MS 45327

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WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. XXXIII (ff. 74). 'Giles of The Long Frank', an unfinished romance of Morris's last years (see C.W., xvii, p. xxv). A partial synopsis is given and portions quoted in C.W., xvii, pp. xxix-xxxvii. The title is supplied by May Morris.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1870-1897]
Extent:
1 item

40. Add MS 45328

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WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. XXXIV (ff. 201). Contents:- (1) Draft of an unfinished novel (without title), Morris's only attempt in this form, beg. 'Our story begins in a village not so very far from London...'; written in the early 1870s (according to C.W., ix, p. xxxi). ff. 1-53...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1870-1890
Extent:
1 item