Reprint of the 1900 ed. published by Mosher, Portland, Me.

The text found in the MS. is identical with that printed in the first edition. Also included is a letter (ff. v, vb) from Morris to W. T. Watts [-Dunton], concerning the printing of an extract from the poem as 'The first Foray of Aristomenes' in the…

Autograph synopsis of Chapters IV-XXIII, written on one side only of a quarto leaf of white laid paper. No watermark. The MS. is headed 'Things to be noted' in Morris' hand. Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 173.

William Morris, "Notes on Passing Events" HM 6446 and dated c. 1885 in the catalogue was written in the early summer of 1886, probably in June. See p.l of the MS which refers to the dissolution of Parliament in June of 1886, the…