Letter from Emma Morris to Miss Morris, 19 June 1846

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Date: c.1871
Object Type: archival
Material: pen on paper
Technique: hand-written
Catalogue number: J2419
Author: Morris | May | 1862 | 1938
Recipient: Morris (née Burden) | Jane | 1839 | 1914
Credit notes: Presented by C.E. Robins, 2007

This letter was written by May Morris to her mother Jane, around 1871. It describes her and her sister Jenny’s visit to stay with their grandmother Emma Morris and their aunt, possibly at Leyton House where Emma lived until July 1871, afterwhich she moved to The Lordship, Much Hadham. In the letter May mentions flowers in Epping Forest, suggesting the letter was written at Leyton as the Forest is nearer to Epping Forest than Much Hadham.

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Date: 5 July 1870
Object Type: archival
Material: pen on paper
Technique: hand-written
Catalogue number: J2418
Author: Morris | May | 1862 | 1938
Recipient: Morris (née Burden) | Jane | 1839 | 1914
Credit notes: Presented by C.E. Robins, 2007

This letter was written by May Morris to her mother Jane in 1870 when she was eight years old. It describes her and her sister Jenny’s first visit to Naworth Castle in July 1870. Naworth was the Cumbrian home of George and Rosalind Howard, good friends of the Morris family. During the trip, George Howard sketched May and her older sister Jenny for an oil portrait (now in the collection of Society of Antiquaries, Kelmscott Manor). May also wrote an account of her trip to Naworth, also in the William Morris Gallery’s collection (J2416).

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Date: June 1870
Object Type: archival
Material: pen on paper
Technique: hand-written
Catalogue number: J2417
Author: Morris | May | 1862 | 1938
Recipient: Morris (née Burden) | Jane | 1839 | 1914
Credit notes: Presented by C.E. Robins, 2007

This letter was written by May Morris to her mother Jane around 30 June 1870 when she was eight years old. It describes her and her sister Jenny’s first visit to Naworth Castle in June-July 1870. Naworth was the Cumbrian home of George and Rosalind Howard, good friends of the Morris family. During the trip, George Howard sketched May and her older sister Jenny for an oil portrait (now in the collection of Society of Antiquaries, Kelmscott Manor). May also wrote an account of her trip to Naworth, also in the William Morris Gallery’s collection (J2416).

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Date: c. 1899-1902
Object Type: archival
Material: pen on paper
Technique: hand-written
Catalogue number: J561iv
Artist: Morris | May | 1862 | 1938
Credit notes: Transferred from the Victoria and Albert Museum, whom presented by Dr. Robert Steele

This lecture note dates from May Morris’s time teaching embroidery at Birmingham Municipal School of Art and the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. The notes and sketches set out her plans for practical lessons, covering design, technique and materials.

Technique: hand-written

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