An Afternoon at Kelmscott Manor
In this past summer of 2018 a few members of the William Morris Society U.S. went to England, all independently, to conduct research. We each thought to make some connections with our English counterparts, if possible. Jane Carlin, our secretary, met in London with the president of the William Morris Society UK, Lord Sawyer, and reported on it in this blog on the 23 rd of October. I met with Dr Kathy Haslam, curator of Kelmscott Manor, Morris’s former country home and a popular tourist attraction in the Cotswolds, located about half an hour’s drive from Oxford where I was researching. Dr Haslam became curator, or Heritage Manager as her position is called, in 2012, after having held a comparable post at Blackwell, the Arts and Crafts House, in Cumbria above Lake Windermere. She had been a William Morris Society trustee for over twenty years. May Morris Attic Sketch, Ashmolean Museum, WA1941.108.21 At my request (and given my special interest in Morris and Iceland), Dr Hasla