1991.1016.47.4

Letter from Robert Proctor to Emery Walker dated 16th December 1901. Found inserted in the book, Oresteia by Aeschylus when acquired by the museum, shelf D11. Part of the Emery Walker Library.

1901-12-16 - 1901-12-16

Arts & Crafts, 20th century

Envelope addressed: Emery Walker 16 Clifford’s Inn Fleet St E.C. 16 Dec. 1901 Dear Walker Do you think that you could induce P.W[i]. to draw a device for me through your firm, if my name is kept out of it? My idea is an upright oblong after the fashion of the Parisian printer’s-marks, more or less heraldic in design, an otter to be prominent holding a fish in his mouth & the coat of arms brought in some-how; a motto round edge in caps. WΚΥΜΟΡΟC ΠΟΤΑΜΟΥ ΓΕΝΕΗ ΒΑΘΥΔΙΝΗΕΝΤΟC. It is desirable that the thing be kept as light as possible, as I want to use it on title pages, & if dark it will kill the title above it. Size about 4 x 2 2/3 in. If (which may it not be so) you think it desirable not to ask Webb, perhaps one of your people can try it as an amusement for his leisure. I am thinking (in view of the length of time he took in your case) of writing to Batchelor on the question of paper. Yours ever R. Proctor[ii] [Footnotes: [i]Probably Philip Webb (see also the reference to ‘Webb’ near the end of the letter). Philip Webb (1831 – 1915), architect and friend of, inter alia, William Morris. [ii] Robert George Collier Proctor, bibliographer (1868 - 1903). He died in mysterious and unexplained circumstances while travelling in Austria. CAW]