Autograph Nore Signed J. Middleton Murry, critic and editor, to [Hugh] Massingham, editor and author., about William Morris.

One page, obl.12mo, fold marks, mainly good. ... It was king of you to write, and Iappreciate it. In candour, I ought to say that [William] Morris was a revelation to me also when I came to read him for the purposes of your brother's book [The Great Victorians pubd 1932, ed. Massingham and his brother]. He was one of the people I had taken as read. I was fairly overwhelmed by the profound insight of his later writings. | I agree with you about Chesterton's 'Chaucer'. I liked it very much indeed. And, in fact, I think there are only two alternatives for a modern mind thatis really aware of the modern situation: either the Chesterton-Eliot way, or the Morris - Murry way. If the former were practically [underlined] possible, that is the way I did choose. But it isn't - that was Morris's discovery.