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 Learn more about William Morris in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Morris and Rossetti rented a country house, Kelmscott Manor near Lechlade, Gloucestershire, as a summer retreat, but it soon became a retreat for Rossetti and Jane Morris to have a long-lasting affair.
To escape the discomfort, Morris often travelled to Iceland, where he researched Icelandic legends that later became the basis of poems and novels.
William Morris died in 1896 and was interred in the churchyard at Kelmscott village in Oxfordshire.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /w/wi/william_morris.html   (658 words)

  
 William Morris Society in the United States: US Newsletter July 1997
Details of the handlist and the related new edition of Morris's A Note on his Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press are available.
Cockerell stated that the Kelmscott Press produced 13 but a quick census (based in large part on detailed research by William Wyer of Ursus Books, New York) suggests that there may be more.
There are plenty of expensive and rare items&emdash;the Kelmscott books (including the Chaucer), a presentation copy of The Earthly Paradise, and a small selection of autograph letters&emdash;but the bulk of the material consists of modestly priced secondary works.
www.morrissociety.org /newsltrs/newsltr-july97.html   (3996 words)

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