William Morris Papers

Period  n.d.
Total size   0.02 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Walthamstow, Great Britain 1834, died in Hammersmith, Great Britain 1896; socialist, poet, artist and architect; founded the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in 1877; member of the Democratic Federation in 1883; cofounder and leader of the Socialist League in 1884, financed its organ Commonweal; author of many socialist tracts and pamphlets; withdrew from the Socialist League when the anarchists took over in 1890; founded his own publishing company, the Kelmscott Press in 1893; active in organizing guilds of designers and decorative craftsmen.

Content

Manuscripts of `How shall we live then', `As to bribing excellence', `Why I am a Communist' n.d.; fragment of a letter to May Morris upon Morris' death [c. 1896].

Alternate Form of Material

Security microfilm (1998).