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Title: William De Morgan and his wife
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Stirling, A. M. W. (Anna Maria Wilhelmina)
Subjects: De Morgan, William Frend, 1839-1917 De Morgan, Mrs. (Evelyn) De Morgan family
Publisher: New York : H. Holt and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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corrupting the text, or in any wayleaning towards exaggeration of the facts. (Further Note by W. M., Well! well! well! ) They reached Sunbury at 10.15 P^^- ( Curious and ratherpleasant,notes William Morris, muddling ones way across tothe Inn in the dark !)—where, on arrival,— W.M. exclaimed, WTiat a stink ! The waiter replied, It isnothing, sir, I assure you. R. C. G. inquisitively, Is it a sewer ? Waiter in answer, Yes, sir, quite sure. (Note by R. C. G. : After thisunfortunate jeu desprit some of the males of the party seemed to thinkthat they were entitled to indulge in the most abominable puns for thewhole of the rest of the journey.) Note by our Communist: A mountainbefore a plain ; a plain before a suburb ; a suburb before a dust-heap ; adust-heap before a sewer ; but a sewer before a gentlemans house. Entries follow of days in the open air, when De Morgandragged the make members of the party out of bed miserablebut helpless for a bathe in the early dawn ; of the catching of
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=3 S co =5 THE MERTON PERIOD 121 fish by R.C.G., Hater incorporated into the system of the fisher,of food prepared by Morris—his cuHnary genius is a matter ofhistory—meals which filled the company with satisfaction andexcellent provisions : of Price appointed boteler by acclama-tion (his own), and how he later regaled the company with anentertainment gratis with an umbrella, a shawl and a champagnebottle ; of teas partaken on the bank in a golden sunset; ofthe aurora borealis seen once in great beauty over the shimmeringriver ; of nights spent by some of the party on board the Ark, byothers at a river-side inn, concerning which occurs on one occasionthe pathetic but reticent note by R. C. G., Domestic Insects.Of one evening when, to the dismay of the merry Bohemian crew,they suddenly found themselves and their queer craft in themiddle of a fashionable regatta at Henley, where they created nosmall stir. The Ark was sculled majestically by De Morganthrough a crowd of inferior craft

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