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1. Add MS 45298-45337

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THE MAY MORRIS BEQUEST 45298-45337. LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS OF WILLIAM MORRIS (b. 1834, d. 1896), the poet and artist, including examples of work from all periods of his literary career. These MSS. are among those used by May Morris, his younger daughter, when preparing her Collected Works of William Morris (hereafter referred to as C.W.), 24 vols., 1910-1915, and the supplementary William Morris, Artist, Writer, Socialist (hereafter referred to as Morris), 2 vols., 1936, in which many of thos...
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William Morris, poet and artist: Literary MSS.: circ. 1853-1896. May Morris, alias Mary; daughter of William Morris: Notes by: n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
[1848-1933]
Extent:
43 items

2. Add MS 45336

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WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. XLII (ff. 47). Sketches, drawings, plans, and notes, mainly connected with the designing and artistic work of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Co., founded April 1861, of which Morris was manager and one of the most active designers. It contains (ff. 26b-2...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1861
Extent:
1 item

3. 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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1902
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 45322-45328

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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 Prose and verse romances, some unpublished.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

5. Add MS 45330-45334

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WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. XXXVI-XL. Lectures, addresses, and miscellaneous papers relating mainly to Morris's political activities. Morris's first recorded lecture was delivered 4 Dec. 1877, his last 31 Jan. 1896. Some lectures he is recorded as having delivered on many occasions. Since it is not usually possible to ascertain which of several versions of a lecture was delivered on a specific occasion, or how many times Morris altered such a lecture verbally or in writing, th...
Scope & Content:
Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: W. Morris; marginal sketches, etc.: late 19th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
[1879-1933]
Extent:
5 items

6. Add MS 45317-45318

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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

7. Add MS 45299-45309

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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

8. Add MS 45310-45316

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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

9. 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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 45319 A-C

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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