Socialist Diaries and Essays
PRINTED BOOKS AND ESSAYS
"An Unpublished Lecture of William Morris: 'How Shall We Live Then?'", Meier, Paul, International Review of Social History, (1971)
"As to Bribing Excellence," International Institute of Social History MS, Amsterdam. Published in Liberty, May 1895
Bibliograpy of Morris's Contributions to Justice and Commonweal 1883-1890, from Political Writings: Contributions to Justice and Commonweal 1883-1890, ed. and intro. Nicholas Salmon, Bristol: Thoemmes Press.
“From the Archive: William Morris’s ‘Communism—i. e. Property: A Partly Unpublished Essay,” edited by Florence Boos, William Morris Society U. S. Newsletter, Summer 2009
"Help for the Miners" ("The Deeper Meaning of the Struggle: To the Editor"), Daily Chronicle, November 10, 1893, William Morris Gallery (WMG) K1558.
"How I Became a Socialist," London: Twentieth Century Press, 1896
"Notes on News," Commonweal, on pit-brow women and Chamberlain's vote against a Home Rule bill, autograph, 1886
Our Country, Right or Wrong, by William Morris, edited by Florence Boos. London: William Morris Society, 2008
Signs of Change: Lectures on Socialism, Commonweal, 1888. Text presented is from Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896
Socialist Diary, edited and annotated by Florence Boos, 1982 (Marxists.org)
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Socialist Diary, Second Edition. Edited and annotated by Florence Boos, 2018.
Socialist Diary, first published in the History Workshop Journal, Issue 13, Spring 1982
"'Socialism' and 'What We Have to Look For': Two Unpublished Morris Essays," Journal of William Morris Studies 19.1, Winter 2010
Socialism: Its Growth and Outcome, Morris, William and E. Belfort Bax, London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1896. Revised with preface and introduction from "Socialism from the Root Up," Commonweal, 1886-1888. Available through Archive.org
"The Revolt of Ghent," with an introduction by Peter Wright.
"Useful Work versus Useless Toil," London: Hammersmith Socialist Society, 1893
"Why I Am a Communist," International Institute of Social History MS, Amsterdam
“William Morris’s ‘Commercial War’: A Critical Edition,” edited by Florence Boos, Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, no. 19 (winter 2010): 45-65
"William Morris's 'Equality': A Critical Edition," Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies No.22 (Fall 2015): 9-28
For Morris's contributions to Commonweal, Justice, and the Hammersmith Socialist Society Record," please refer to Periodicals.
MANUSCRIPTS
"An Old Fable Retold," John Burns Collection, British Library Ms. 46,289. Photograph courtesy of Frank C. Sharp
An Account of Three Socialist Lectures, Huntington Library, HM 6446
Early political essay, Cheltenham Library
Early political essay 2, Cheltenham Library
Essays on Socialism, British Library Additional Manuscript 45,333.
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"Socialism"
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"Communism"
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"What We Have to Look For"
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"The Policy of Abstention"
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"Commercial War"
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"What Socialists Want"
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"Art and the People"
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"Makeshift"
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"What is: what should be: what will be: what may be"
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"The End and the Means"
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"Equality"
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"The Political Outlook"
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"Communism: i.e. Property"
Socialism Up to Date (Essays on Socialism), British Library Additional Manuscript 45,334.
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"Socialism Up to Date"
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"Art and Labour," first essay
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"Art and Labour"
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"Our Country Right or Wrong"
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"The Depression of Trade"
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"What Socialists Want"
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"The Present Outlook in Politics"
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"Misery and the Way Out"
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"Origins of Ornamental Art," fragment
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"Speech at a Picture Show"
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Addenda: clippings and letters related to socialism