1991.1016.337

May Morris (designer)

Handwritten card from May Morris, probably to Emery Walker about checking various details concerning this book. Found inserted in the book, Some Hints On Pattern Designing by Morris, W. when acquired by the museum, shelf V38 . Part of the Emery Walker Library.

Lechlade

Arts & Crafts

Card from May Morris requesting clarification on MS (undated). Found in ‘Some Hints on Pattern Designing’ by William Morris From M.M Saturday Mrs William Morris (crossed out), Kelmscott Manor, Lechlade Will you kindly look in the Gn Type series of lectures; Some Hints on Pattern designing, [p.] “while the sun breaks the clouds on them [2y], can the sun ‘break the clouds’ on things, or should it be ‘through’ the clouds? Who edited this series, do you know? I have M.S of this, but it is so much altered in little ways, that the printing must have been done from another M.S. & I should very much like to know where it is – for M.SS used after his death were surely preserved and wd. belong to the family? Have you the volume of S.P.A.B[i] lectures published years ago? Our copy is missing, and I rather want to compare my proofs with it. Mr Lethaby[ii] has the volume, but he is away, & if you could kindly let me have yours, it wd save time. I’m afraid I’m a great nuisance just now. I made a stupid blunder over arranging the latter half of vol. XXII (&XXIII also, I fear) which has entailed reimposing – It is dreadful! Yours M.M[iii]. [Footnote: [i]The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. [ii] William Lethaby (1857 -1931), architect and architectural historian. [iii] May Morris (1862 – 1938), artisan, embroiderer and the daughter of William Morris. She was a close friend of Emery Walker and family. CAW]