Drafts in British Library Add. MS 45,298A, may be Morris's adolescent hand.
These titles below are all written in a large, loose, symmetrical script, quite different from that used by the copyist of "The Mosque Rising in the Place of the Temple of Solomon" (formerly known as "The Dedication of the Temple"), a poem which May Morris received in the same batch of poems from her niece Effie Morris in 1921, and which she describes as written out "for or by" her aunt. May Morris apparently hesitated to identify her aunt's handwriting, but at least did not assume that the very different "Fame" script was hers. The uncertainty is resolved, however, by the one surviving Emma Morris letter (to her niece Jenny, 1887, William Morris Gallery MS J77), written in the script of "The Mosque Rising" copyist. Emma was not the copyist for "Fame" or the other poems in the same handwriting which were found in her drawer; other possibilities include Henrietta Morris or Morris himself. Morris's handwriting varied widely; although the handwriting of "Fame" is less compressed than that of the Fitzwilliam early script, the capital letters are similarly formed. May Morris often mentioned whether drafts were in her father's hand, but here said nothing. See also the note on 10
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Sources cited:
AWS. May Morris, ed., William Morris: Artist, Socialist, 2 vols. Oxford: Blackwell, 1936.
CW. William Morris, The Collected Works of William Morris,
ed. May Morris. 24 vols. London: Longmans, 1910-15.
OCM. The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine
Fitz. MS 1 Fitzwilliam Museum, "Autograph MS of 7 Poems and 1 Prose
Tale."
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