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WILLIAM MORRIS AUTOGRAPH LETTER Signed
English artist, illustrator, designer and libertarian socialist, associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
ALS. 2pp. Manor House, Kelmscott, Lechlade, Gloucestershire. Oct 11th [no year]. To [William] Woodall.
"Dear Mr. Woodall, I shall be coming to Burslem on Thursday by Oxford & Birmingham; as far as I can make out I shall be at Burslem by 4.15 p.m. If there is anything wrong, a line to me at the King's Arms, Oxford, would reach me on Thursday. That is if the cross-posts will have it; for this is an out of the way place."
8vo. Approx 7 x 4.5 inches. Fine.
From the album of the radical Liberal M.P., William Woodall, who was also one of the trustees of the Wedgewood Institute. William Morris was one of those invited to the laying of the foundation stone by the Wedgewood Memorial Committee and was on other occasions asked to lecture to students of the Institute.
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