Janus: Edward Burne-Jones Papers

Fitzwilliam/BURNE-JONES contains:
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XVII	Georgiana Burne-Jones to John Ruskin
XVIII	Letters to John Ruskin
XX	William Michael Rossetti Letters
XXI	Letters to Charles Eliot Norton
XXII	Lucy Madox Rossetti Letters (wife of William Michael)
XXIII	Correspondence: A. Warington Taylor (with E.E. Robson)
XXIX	Burne-Jones Chronology
XXV	Correspondence: Ruskin, Morris, Chamberlain, Baldwin, et al.
XXVI	Bound volume containing typed copies of letters from Edward (and Georgiana) Burne-Jones.
XXVII	Edward Burne-Jones to Frances Horner
XXVIII	Edward Burne-Jones to Frances Horner and other correspondence
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Edward Burne-Jones Papers

Title	Correspondence: A. Warington Taylor (with E.E. Robson)
Reference	BURNE-JONES/XXIII
Covering Dates	1863–1917
Extent and Medium	35 items

Fitzwilliam/BURNE-JONES/XXIII contains:

E. R. Robson to Georgiana Burne-Jones. Provides a brief biography of A. Warington Taylor, business manager of Morris & Co., and offering a set of letters.
1.

1905

Ethel M. Robson. One autograph letter from E.R Robson's daughter, Ethel M. Robson, offering letters between her father and Taylor to S.C. Cockerell with approval for their being kept at the Fitzwilliam Museum.
1 letter.

1917

3-33

A. Warington Taylor. Thirty-one autograph letters from A. Warington Taylor to E.R. Robson, some partial, with fair copies. Largely commenting on developments at Morris & Co. interspersed between his own musings on style, design and other matters; discusses current work of Morris, new divisions, competitors, and the eventual interest of the firm in him as an employee; lengthy commentaries on various matters religious, architectural (drawing on Ruskin, especially Stones of Venice), literary (Swinburne controversy), metaphysical, etc.; offers advice on best practices for design and building; pictures of designs for a side board and a table he wants drawing up to scale (XXIII.3); mentions "B's design for Cathedral at C.," giving own sketches of windows (XXIII.9); several letters include illustrations, for example sketches of belfry windows as part of a discussion of "style" (XXIII.14); last letters discuss illness. One final item consists of a fragment from a letter, possibly from 1863, about designs for a table.
31 letters.

1863–1869