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William Morris and the Kelmscott Estate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

A. R. Dufty
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I Have been looking about for a house for the wife and kids, and whither do you guess my eye is turned now? Kelmscott, a little village about two miles above Radcott Bridge—a heaven on earth; an old stone Elizabethan house like Water Eaton, and such a garden! close down on the river, a boat house and all things handy. I am going down there again on Saturday with Rossetti and my wife: Rossetti because he thinks of sharing it with us if the thing looks likely.…

[William Morris to C. J. Faulkner, 17 May 1871]

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , March 1963 , pp. 97 - 115
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1963

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page 98 note 1 William Morris to Mrs. Coronio, 25 Nov. (1872): ‘…Another quite selfish business is that Rossetti has set himself down at Kelmscott as if he never meant to go away; and not only does that keep me from my harbour of refuge (because it is really a farce our meeting when we can help it) but also he has all sorts of ways so unsympathetic with the sweet simple old place, that I feel his presence there as a kind of slur on it: this is very unreasonable though when one thinks why one took the place, and how this year it has really answered that purpose: nor do I think I should feel this about it if he had not been so unromantically discontented with it and the whole thing, which made me very angry and disappointed.…’

page 98 note 2 Henderson, Philip (ed.), Letters of William Morris, Sec. (Longman 1958), lxviGoogle Scholar.

page 103 note 1 This is summarized at p. 115 below.

page 106 note 1 Henderson, Philip (ed.), Letters of William Morris, xlvi–xlviiGoogle Scholar.

page 106 note 2 The text here printed is abridged: the full text is in the Society's archives.

page 110 note 1 The items that, from the brevity of their description, seem to be of no particular[significance are omitted from this transcript of the Memorandum which, for the rest, is here printed without correction. A verbatim copy is in the archives of the Society of Antiquaries.