William Morris Society
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
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Colin Franklin, Printing and the mind of Morris (Rampant Lions, 1986), 1985-1987
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9816/A/140
Scope and Contents
Copy (typescript); galley proof; page proof; trial setting; other papers and correspondence with Sebastian Carter. Correspondents include the Book Club of California (Shirley Sheffield), Colin Franklin, William Morris Society (Peter Faulkner).
Dates:
1985-1987
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence between Morison and the William Morris Society, 1956-1967
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9812/D/306
Scope and Contents
The correspondence is mostly with the Secretaries, Graeme Shankland (1956-1957) and R. C. H. Briggs (1957-). Folder 1 = 1956, with various typescript documents of the Society Folder 2 = 1956-1957, with various typescript reports relating to the 1957 William Morris exhibition Folder 3 = 1957-1961, with similar typescript reports; and copies of correspondence with the Klingspor-Museum, Offenbach Folder 4 = 1961-1967, with a letter from Morison to Francis Mathew; and typescript drafts of...
Dates:
1956-1967
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Designs for the William Morris Society, 1955-1961
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9929/A/17
Scope and Contents
Folder 1 = layouts, artwork and specimens of jobbing work for the Society Folder 2 = printed notices for the exhibition 'The typographical adventure of William Morris' (1957) Folder 3 = layouts and marked proof of a keepsake for the visit of the Society to the University Press (1961) Folder 4 = other printed and mimeographed notices of the Society including a letter to Peters.
Dates:
1955-1961
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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General correspondence, 1956-1966
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9861/B2/1
Scope and Contents
Letters are to and from Peters unless specified. Outgoing letters are mostly typescript carbon copies. Correspondents include William S. Adams, Arthur Millbourn & Co. Ltd, Nicolas Barker, Charles Batey, Bertram Rota Ltd (Anthony Rota), Diana Bloomfield, Dorothea Braby, Bristol Public Libraries, British Council, British Red Cross Society, Brown University (David A. Jonah, Librarian), C. F. Moore & Sons Ltd, Cambridge Bibliographical Society (Susan Skilliter), Cambridgeshire Technical...
Dates:
1956-1966
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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William Morris, The story of Cupid and Psyche. Announcements and prospectus, 1969-1974
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9816/A/65
Scope and Contents
Copy and various proofs, and printed prospectus; printed announcements. With these are: printed announcement and printed keepsake for Sebastian Carter's lecture 'The last Kelmscott' (October 1973) (the latter varying to specify the venue; in a folder marked 'Publicity'); sample of Morris-pattern cloth proofs of the wood-engravings made for Colin Franklin in 1978 and an announcement of his talk 'Golden Asses at the Private Presses'; further proofs from the Morris borders in the same...
Dates:
1969-1974
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).