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famed as letter-writers, yet how different in substance and style are their respective productions!

 

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Kelmscott House, Upper Mall, Hammersmith
February 20th (1886).

Dear Mr. Glasier,—I must ask your pardon re your 'Law and Order.'^[1] We shall not have room for it this month; but I will try to put it in next (April). You will excuse me, I hope, for keeping other poems out in favour of my own; but as mine is a 'continuation' the effect is bad if I slip a number, as I have sometimes been obliged to do. I think your 'Ballade' is good; brisk and spirited.

Yours fraternally,
William Morris.

 

The Commonweal Publishing Office,
13 Farringdon Road, London, E.C.

My dear Glasier,—About coming to Glasgow. I have promised the Industrial Remuneration people^[2] to lecture (the same lecture) at Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dundee, beginning on June 23rd. I could not come before as the weekly Comm. and my Dublin journey absolutely prevented me. Perhaps something might be done as to giving a special lecture under the auspices of the branch when I come. Commonweal:—I want you to write for us whatever you think you can do well, and please let us have something soon.

 

Kelmscott House, Upper Mall, Hammersmith,
April 24th (1886).

My dear Glasier,—Thanks for your note. Perhaps an extra lecture or lectures could be managed on my return from Dundee, which is the last place where I give my lecture

1. The 'Ballade of Law and Order,' verses by myself which appeared in Commonweal, April 1886.
2. A series of additional lectures carried on from the Industria Remuneration Conference held at Edinburgh, January 1886. See footnote to Chapter III.