describes signatures he has collected to protest a planned hanging of young men

declines commission on grounds of principle

Morris writes to his Leeds business partner Thomas Wardle about avoiding excess lead in wallpaper. He does not believe that the amount of arsenic used in dying is harmful.

discusses means for change; pledges himself to the cause

He orders an item for the Kelmscott Press, and inquires about the progress of printing Tennyson's Maud.