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21. Add MS 45306

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WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. X (ff. 69). 'The Proud King', etc. A small quarto ruled account book, dated 'Jan: 1861' (f. 68b, reversing the volume). On ff. 65b and 64b (reversing the volume) is a list headed 'Figures for Diot Dennis'. This is the MS. mentioned in Morris, i, p. 406. ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan : 1861
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1 item

22. Add MS 45316

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WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. XX (ff. 46). A collection of fragments, originally loose leaves, of drafts for 'Sigurd the Volsung', viz.:-(1) The narrative continued from 45315, beginning at Book III, canto 10, 'And with many a thought of Sigurd the heart within her glows' (C.W., xii,...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1874-1875]
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1 item

23. Add MS 45309

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WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. XIII (ff. 108). Fair copies in the hand of an amanuensis of three of the earliest written tales (see May Morris's list of early tales, C.W., iii, p. xv). Contents:- (1) 'The Palace East of the Sun and West of the Moon', a completed early version of 'Th...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1857-1870
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1 item

24. Add MS 45319 A

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WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. XXIII (ff. vii + 82). Diary of a visit to Iceland, 6 July-10 Aug. 1871 (ff. 1-82b). This and 45319 B, ff. 1-57, are the actual diaries kept on the visit, from which Morris made a 'transcript' given to Lady Burne-Jones (see C.W., viii, p. xxxiv). The text...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
6 Jul 1871-10 Aug 1871
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1 item

25. Add MS 45317

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WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. XXI (ff. i + 76). Contents:- (1) 'The Story of Egil' (from the Icelandic, 'Egils Saga Skallagrimssonar'); 13 chapters and part of a 14th, differing slightly from the text of 40 surviving chapters printed in Morris, i, pp. 565-636. ff. 1-18. (2) 'The ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1865-1931]
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1 item

26. 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

27. Add MS 45319 B

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WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. XXIV (ff. vii + 57). Diary of a visit to Iceland continued, 11 Aug.-7 Sept. 1871 (ff. 1-57). Reversing the volume, on ff. viib-iv are notes, sketches, and fragments of poems, including (ff. ivb-iv) the beginning of a draft of 'The Wooing of Hallbiorn the...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Aug 1871-7 Sep 1871
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1 item

28. 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]
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1 item

29. Add MS 45319 C

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WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. XXV (ff. vii + 60). Contents:- (1) Notes on the itinerary for the 1873 visit. ff. i-iii. (2) Diary of a visit to Iceland, 24 July-19 Aug. 1873. This MS. is printed as it stands in C.W., viii, pp. 186-236 as 'A Diary of Travel in Iceland 1873'. ff. 1-...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1873
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1 item

30. 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]
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1 item