Series of eight autograph letters signed, to H. C. Marillier, Managing Director of Morris & Co and owner of Kelmscott House, thanking Marillier for his book about "the firm" [A Brief Sketch of the Morris Movement, 1911] ("...I don't think it could have been better done...") although objecting that "you give me too much credit for my share in the tile work"; discussing Marillier's commissions as a collector (offering to "go down to the factory shortly and choose a lot" although afterwards regretting that that "lot is not so good" and offering to "take tea-set off your hands at trade price, for my ain self – Afraid I exceeded my instructions about the one or two lustres, but I thought you were open to take a small allowance – and that the consignment wanted enriching"); giving instructions as to the correct formulation of fixing cement ("...ground firebrick or stoneware...worked up with neutral solution of Soda Silicate, and no other..."); commenting on the work of his former foreman Ewbank ("...I suppose the firing, which is the critical point is done in the kiln Ewbank has put up, worked by Iles..."); and telling Marillier that Isidore Spielmann, of the Board of Trade, is looking for examples of Morris & Co's work for the forthcoming international exhibition in Paris [postponed because of the First World War]; the letters also contain references to his wife Evelyn's paintings, a portrait of himself, his novel Joseph Vance ("...It seems quite like someone else's book now to me, and I can hardly believe I wrote it!...") and its successor ("...a novel as long as Vanity Fair"...), life in Florence, etc., 24 pages, 8vo, Florence and Chelsea, 18 June 1907 to 4 March 1914
Series of eight autograph letters signed, to H. C. Marillier, Managing Director of Morris & Co and owner of Kelmscott House, thanking Marillier for his book about "the firm" [A Brief Sketch of the Morris Movement, 1911] ("...I don't think it could have been better done...") although objecting that "you give me too much credit for my share in the tile work"; discussing Marillier's commissions as a collector (offering to "go down to the factory shortly and choose a lot" although afterwards regretting that that "lot is not so good" and offering to "take tea-set off your hands at trade price, for my ain self – Afraid I exceeded my instructions about the one or two lustres, but I thought you were open to take a small allowance – and that the consignment wanted enriching"); giving instructions as to the correct formulation of fixing cement ("...ground firebrick or stoneware...worked up with neutral solution of Soda Silicate, and no other..."); commenting on the work of his former foreman Ewbank ("...I suppose the firing, which is the critical point is done in the kiln Ewbank has put up, worked by Iles..."); and telling Marillier that Isidore Spielmann, of the Board of Trade, is looking for examples of Morris & Co's work for the forthcoming international exhibition in Paris [postponed because of the First World War]; the letters also contain references to his wife Evelyn's paintings, a portrait of himself, his novel Joseph Vance ("...It seems quite like someone else's book now to me, and I can hardly believe I wrote it!...") and its successor ("...a novel as long as Vanity Fair"...), life in Florence, etc., 24 pages, 8vo, Florence and Chelsea, 18 June 1907 to 4 March 1914
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