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Kelmscott Manor Visitors' Book

Reference code
KEL/01
Title
Kelmscott Manor Visitors' Book
Date
15 Sept. 1928-11 Oct. 1948
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
Quarto.
Leather binding, olive green.
Scope and content
Signatures of visitors. Inscription on the flyleaf 'To May Morris with Lyndon Lang's love Kelmscott September 15th 1928'. Three loose leaves contain two poems 'Kelmscott' by 'H. Lilley Oct. 1943' and 'William Morris' by 'H L', n.d.
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/909
Archival history
Bequeathed to SAL, with Kelmscott Manor, by May Morris (d. 1938), daughter of William Morris. A.J., 43 (1963), 97-115.
Related units of description
The Visitors' Book for 1889-1904 is BL Add. MS 45412.