whole series of these designs, including many of his very best, were turned out during this summer to be ready for the new works to start upon. The move was made at the beginning of winter. His impatience at the inevitable delays was great. "I am in an agony of muddle," he writes early in November; "I now blame myself severely for not having my way and settling at Blockley; I knew I was right; but cowardice prevailed." The agony, Mr. George Wardle tells me, was merely because everything could not move as easily and quickly as he wished. He "could never imagine difficulties," and chose to think that everything would have gone smoothly at Blockley. But before Christmas everything had been cleared out from Queen Square and its annexes, and the new works were fairly set a-going.
A circular issued from Oxford Street when the Merton workshops were in complete order gives a full catalogue of all the kinds of work designed and executed there. The list is as follows:
- 1. Painted glass windows.
- 2. Arras tapestry woven in the high-warp loom.
- 3. Carpets.
- 4. Embroidery.
- 5. Tiles.
- 6 Furniture.
- 7. General house decorations.
- 8. Printed cotton goods.
- 9. Paper hangings.
- 10. Figured woven stuffs.
- 11. Furniture velvets and cloths.
- 12. Upholstery.
Under some of these headings there are notes of a
