Morris, William, 1834-1896

Date: [ca 1880s-1890s], 1931-1957

From: Peacocke, Kathryn Margaret, fl 2012 :Photographs relating to William Ranstead and John Morris Ranstead

By: London Stereoscopic Photographic Company; Desgranges Portrait Studio

Reference: PAColl-10040

Description: Photographs relating to socialist, emigration organiser, and farmer, William Ranstead; and farmer, animal breeder, and agricultural scientist John Morris Ranstead. Comprises: A set of portraits relating to William Ranstead, taken circa 1880s-1890s, which depict people Ranstead may have corresponded with, including William Morris, Walter Crane, and George MacDonald. One half-tone print shows the founding members of Manchester's 'Clarion' newspaper, whom Ranstead probably knew. A set of photographs relating to John Ranstead, including one of cattle grazing in front of a homestead in 1931, a group portrait of Ranstead with members of the Dairy Research Institute in 1947, farmer Frank Hunt with his Suffolk sheep in 1950, and portraits of Ranstead circa 1957. Accompanying information - Two envlelopes are filed with this set of photographs. One is inscribed 'Lower mandible of calf - parrot beak. Impacted molars'. This note relates to John Morris Ranstead's study of genetic inheritance in cattle. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 12 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints, photo-mechanical print

By: Morris, William, 1834-1896

Reference: Micro-MS-0912

Description: Material in this collection relates to Morris's work as a printer, designer, artist and critic. Material is from the British Library Department of Printed Books, Kelmscott Manor and the Society of Antiquaries. It includes the first manuscript minute book of the SPAB (Society for the Preservatin of Ancient Buildings) which Morris helped to establish; manuscripts of `The story of Egil', `The Story of the Ynglings' and `Lancelot du Lake'; accounts, prospectuses, flysheets, trial pages, proofs and type and ornament designs from Kelmscott Press collected together by Sydney Cockerell and copies of printed pamphlets. Quantity: 5 microfilm reel(s). 0.15 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter (copies) Finding Aids: No listings were supplied to accompany this collection. At the beginning of each reel the contents list contain manuscripts reference numbers only but no description of the items that these numbers apply to..

Date: 1922-1931

From: Gordon, George, active 1857-1942: Esperanto collection

Reference: MSX-10002

Description: Volume of Esperanto translations by George Gordon of literary works, prefaced by correspondence and other preliminary matter. Translated works listed in the Tabelo de Enhavo [table of contents]: - 'Golfeto de Malachi', by Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) - 'Le Eksperimento de Doktors Heidegger', by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) - 'Le Sep Malriĉaj Vojaĝantoj', by Charles Dickens (1812-1870) - 'La Rakarto de la Landsinjoro', by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-1865) - 'Miggles', by Francis Bret Harte (1839-1902) - 'La Rakonto de Vagema Willie', by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) - 'Rab Kaj liaj Amikoj', by John Brown (1810-1882) - 'La Eksiĝo de Sinjoro Whittaker', by William Hale White (Mark Rutherford) (1831-1913) - 'La Triopa Destino', by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) - 'La Forgesita Preĝejo', by William Morris (1834-1896) - 'Iksions en Ĉiclo', by Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) - 'Juna Domestro Brown', by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) - 'William Wilson', by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) - 'La Meskbale ne la Ruĝa Morto', by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) - 'La Poŝta Kuriero en "The Never-Never"', by Aeneas Gunn [Jeannie Gunn] (1870-1961) - 'Kampare Brulego en Australis', by Henry Lawson 1867-1922) - 'La Reĝo mortis, Vivu le Reĝo', by Mary Coleridge (1861-1907) - 'Homo Kaj Beste', by Elliott Lovegood Grant Wilson [Watson] (1885-1970). Some pages have been removed from the volume prior to accession by the Library. For reference to the original donation and George Gordon's manuscript translations, see "Esperanto Collection", 'Evening Post', volume 134, issue 148, 20 December 1943, page 3. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Volume of typescripts and manuscripts, including correspondence on printed letterhead, in full leather binding, 28 x 21 cm. Provenance: Donated to the Alexander Turnbull Library by George Gordon of Christchurch, through the New Zealand Esperanto Association in 1942. This volume was originally held with published volumes in the Library collections and transferred to Manuscripts & Archives in 2021.

Date: 1900 - 1909

From: Morris & Company :[Designs for furniture and textiles of Morris & Company Ltd. ca 1909]

By: Morris & Company (London, England)

Reference: B-024-015

Description: The details of a complete carpet square, showing William Morris's 'Holland Park' carpet, designed in 1883. Designs sent to A Turnbull by Morris & Co. According to Linda Parry's 'William Morris Textiles' (London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1983) at least three versions of this design were woven. There are small variations in the Library's version from the illustration shown in the book on p. 96. (Photocopy in Artists' file, under Morris, W.) Reproduced as wrapping paper by the Library. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on card, 428 x 335 mm

Date: 1909

By: Morris & Company (London, England); Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-056-011

Description: Show washstand, dressing table and wardrobe Design sent to A Turnbull by Morris & Co. Quantity: 5 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil, watercolour on 1 sheet 540 x 780 mm

Date: 1909

By: Morris & Company (London, England)

Reference: B-024-001/019

Description: Shows chairs, wardrobes, cabinets, dressing tables, washstands, a carpet etc. Designs sent to A Turnbull by Morris & Co. Quantity: 5 photograph(s) 9 pencil, 3 ink and watercolour, 4 ink, 1 watercolour. Physical Description: Pencil, ink and watercolour, various sizes on sheets 300 x 230 mm to 460 x 290 mm Transfers: Published catalogue transferred to book coll.

Date: 1909 - 1995

By: Morris, William, 1834-1896; National Library of New Zealand

Reference: C-087-019

Description: Shows carpet design (original at ATL B-024-015). Four identical copies of same design. Printer has elongated design slightly. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on wrapping paper.. Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 500 x 700 mm. Provenance: Deposited under Legal Deposit, 1995.

Date: 1909 - 1995

By: Morris, William, 1834-1896; National Library of New Zealand

Reference: C-087-019-a

Description: Shows carpet design (original at ATL B-024-015). Four identical copies of same design. Printer has elongated design slightly. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on wrapping paper.. Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 500 x 700 mm. Provenance: Deposited under Legal Deposit, 1995.

Date: 15 Feb 1887

By: Morris, William, 1834-1896

Reference: MS-Papers-3323

Description: Autographed postcard to John Carruthers Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 item). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, printed matter Transfers: Purchased with MS-Papers-3324.

Date: [ca 1865-1918]

From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-3301

Description: Portraits of T S Monkhouse and his wife Ellen, camps, barracks, aircraft, guns, and other military equipment relating to World War I Also includes a number or comic and other coloured postcards bearing British World War I propaganda Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s). 13 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Prints

Date: 1909

By: Morris & Company (London, England)

Reference: C-056-012

Description: Carpet design with the top left corner fully painted in, along with pencilled in outlines. A note, lower right, indicates that this is Morris's Ramsey design with some variations. Design sent to A Turnbull by Morris & Co., possibly the basis for the Morris carpet Turnbull ordered See biographies index under Morris & Col, for further details Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink and watercolour, 350 x 660 mm

Date: 1944

From: Evans, Judith Christine 1920- : [Communist Party murals / Judy Evans and Guy Harding] [1944?]

Reference: F-021

Description: In the centre, the text of a poem by William Morris, Memory hold fast their names'. To the left, the Statue of Liberty. To the right, a working man holding a large volume titled Roll of honour. Around the edges are banners marked with the names of various revolutions or movements towards independence: The Peasants' Revolt, England, 1381; Commonwealth, 1649; Declaration of Independence, USA, 1776; French Revolution, 1789; Communist Manifesto, 1848; First International, 1864; Paris Commune, 1871; 1st Russian Revolution, 1905; The Russian Revolution, 1917; Third International, 1919; Spanish Civil War, 1936; Anti-Fascist World War, 1941 This is section 10 out of 10 sections, painted onto 9 pinex panels. Section 9 is missing Painted for the Friends of the Soviet Union by Judy Evans and her father Guy Harding. Hung in the Unity Centre, Wellington. Known as the Harding murals for many years, however discussions with Judy Evans made it clear that she devised the murals and carried out most of the painting, with assistance from her father. Inspired by the work of Diego Rivera. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Tempera on pinex panel, 1220 x 2400 mm Provenance: Painted and displayed as murals for the walls of the Unity Centre, Cuba Street. Later removed and stored in a garage for many years.