William Morris Archive

Lecture beginning identically with 'The Prospects of Architecture in Civilization'


Bibliographic Citation

William Morris, “Lecture beginning identically with 'The Prospects of Architecture in Civilization',” William Morris Archive, accessed March 29, 2024, http://morrisarchive.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/2496.

Title

Lecture beginning identically with 'The Prospects of Architecture in Civilization'
William Morris Literary Manuscripts, Vol. XXXVIII (5)

Creator

William Morris

Date

1881-03-10

Publisher

British Library Add MS. 45,332 (5)

Extent

ff. 96-105

Relation

British Library Add MS 45,331

Description

Lecture beginning identically with 'The Prospects of Architecture in Civilization', which was delivered at the London Institution, Finsbury Circus, 10 Mar. 1881 (CW ., xxii, pp. 119-152), but then differing considerably from it. The MS. is incomplete, breaking off at '...they are not very numerous either I think, the sort of folk who do nothing and care for nothing...'. [No. 17].