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[identification of item], William Morris Correspondence, SPEC.RARE.MMS.0126, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Ohio State University
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Processed by Beth Crowner, 2019 March; Finding Aid written by: Beth Crowner, 2019 March
William Morris (1834-1896) was the leader of the British Arts and Crafts movement and founder of the United Kingdom Socialist League. Morris started the Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Company in 1861, later renamed Morris & Company in 1875. The company made decorative arts such as carpets, tapestries, embroidery, tiles, and book designs, but mainly focused on wallpaper and textiles. Morris used the publishing and editing services of Ellis & White during the 1880s.
The William Morris Correspondence contains six pieces of correspondence sent by William Morris between circa 1870s-1880s. The collection contains an August 6th, 1878 letter believed to have been a standard form letter that Morris simply signed his name to, which discusses raising funds for the purpose of circulating a recent political speech by William Gladstone in the British House of Commons. The collection also contains a shorter letter to Frederick Startridge Ellis (Morris's editor), dated circa 1882, which briefly mentions the death of a contemporary and close personal friend, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who had been having an affair with Morris’s wife. A third letter is addressed to an unknown recipient that Morris owed money to, dated July 17, circa 1870s-1880s. The three postcards in the collection are business-related notes sent by Morris to his editing and publishing company, Ellis & White, postmarked November 17, 1881, and August 7th and 12th, 1883.