MORRIS, WILLIAM. Autograph manuscript signed ("William Morris," at end) of a lecture delivered as "One Socialist Party," here entitled "The Present Lookout of Socialism," with occasional deletions and emendations, [dated November 1895 at end]. 13 pages, folio, boldly written on the rectos of 13 leaves of lined paper (watermarked 1890), bound in quarter calf and gray paper boards, spine gilt-lettered SOCIALISM and W.M. MS., spine rubbed. As noted at the end, the manuscript was written in November 1895 "for the 'Forum' Lecture K.H. [Kelmscott House?] Jan. 5 1896."

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MORRIS, WILLIAM. Autograph manuscript signed ("William Morris," at end) of a lecture delivered as "One Socialist Party," here entitled "The Present Lookout of Socialism," with occasional deletions and emendations, [dated November 1895 at end]. 13 pages, folio, boldly written on the rectos of 13 leaves of lined paper (watermarked 1890), bound in quarter calf and gray paper boards, spine gilt-lettered SOCIALISM and W.M. MS., spine rubbed. As noted at the end, the manuscript was written in November 1895 "for the 'Forum' Lecture K.H. [Kelmscott House?] Jan. 5 1896."

In October Morris addressed the opening of the Oxford Socialist's Union; in December, he lectured in London on English architecture and Gothic illustrations in early printed books. On 3 January 1896 he attended the New Year's meeting of the Socialist Democratic Federation at the Holborn Town Hall. "Two days afterwards, he gave the last of his Sunday-evening lectures at Kelmscott House, 'One Socialist Party,' (Henderson, William Morris: His Life Work, and Friends, 1967, p.356).