Correspondence to and from Mary Grace Walker, Dorothy Walker and Sir Emery Walker

Business and personal letters to and from Emery Walker, including letters to and from Philip Webb on various subjects such as Webb asking Walker to be executor of his will (10 Feb 1894) the design of a mace to represent the new Birmingham University and a letter from Walker to Webb regarding the death of Miss Faulkner's brother and his contribution to the Socialist movement (22 Feb 1892); letters from Georgiana Burne-Jones referring to Mrs Kipling (née Caroline Starr Balestier (1862–1939): She talks about Cormell Price's children and how Mary Grace Jones and 'Mrs Rudyard have done so much for them, despite the Kipling being ' in the midst of their own anxiety for their own son' - John Kipling (her son) having been reported missing in action (7 Oct 1915) - (Cormell Price (1835-1910) was head of the United Services College at Westward Ho! since its opening in 1874 and was a friend of William Morris; upon his death in 1910, Rudyard Kipling and Emery Walker became Trustees of his children, Teddy and Dorothy), mutual acquaintances and domestic problems; another letter talks about mutual acquaintances and domestic problems; letter from May Morris to Dorothy Walker [undated] probably written after her father’s death and offering support; letter from 10 Downing Street informing Emery Walker of the Prime Minister’s intention of offering him a knighthood (14 Dec 1929) and another dated 30 Jan on the same subject asking which name he would like to use in future; a the draft reply from Emery Walker dated 1 Feb 1930 concerning the matter; a programme of November lectures (no year given) for the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society given in the New Gallery; papers and correspondence relating to Emery Walker’s membership of the Most Loquacious Order of the Red Herring, Jesus College, Cambridge; Emery Walker death Certificate 24 July 1933; press cutting on the subject of printing and obituary for Emery Walker; a letter from Philip Norman to Emery Walker dated 5 Jan 1911 asking him to join the Cocked Hat Club (a drinking and dining branch of the Society of Antiquaries) where he mentions the current members and the club’s activities in detail; letter from Fred [?] Johnson from Norwich dated 14 June 1914 to Emery Walker regarding the Walburgh [?] land and its rateable income as well as other financial considerations; a pamphlet from the City of London College mentioning a lecture by Emery Walker to take place on Thursday 30 Jan 1890 on the subject 'The Art of Printing ... the lecture will be illustrated with lantern slides photographed from Manuscripts and Printed Books', it is also mentioned that T J Cobden Sanderson will give a lecture on 6 Feb 1890 on 'bookbinding and the Decoration of Bound Books'; press cuttings (22 & 23 Jan 1914) relating to a lecture given by Emery Walker at the South Kensington Museum (Jan 1914) on the subject of 'Paper for Art Printing' where the contents of the lecture are discussed in detail; formal notice from The Grolier Club dated 14 Dec 1920 informing Emery Walker of his election as a member to the Club; letter from S Hudson [?] from University Press Oxford mentioning the privilege of being the repository of the Proctor puncheons and matrixes, he goes on to say that they already hold 16 C matrixes and also 18th C Baskervilles; press cutting from the Daily Telegraph dated 18 April [1932] regarding Emery Walker's illness and recovery and also about his links with Kelmscott Press, the cutting was mounted and sent to him with an affectionate note and signed 'Doris'; letter from A [?] Schofield, Librarian of the University Library, Cambridge regarding Emery Walker's election to 'Sandars Reader in Bibliography for the years 1924-5' he mentions that part of the membership involves the non obligatory delivery of lectures from two to six in number at a honorarium of 50 pounds and whether he is likely to accept the appointment; notes in Emery Walker's handwriting on the subject of 'The Great Artists: Hans Holbein by Joseph Cundall author of 'The Life and Genius of Rembrandt' (1882) with envelope attached bearing the notes 'my first attempt at writing - published by J Moyr Smith [?] (Editor and Proprietor) in 'Decoration' about 1882; eight page letter from Mary Grace Walker to 'My Dear Emery' from Mogador ( Morocco) where she is spending some time with Dorothy, recounting her every day occupations as well as the activities of various British officials dated 24 Feb 1912; minutes of a meeting signed William Morris dated 'friday 16.5.1890', the reverse showing a printed page entitled 'Cash Account for Week ending Apr. 30th 1890 [for the use of members only]' showing receipts and expenditure with ending balances for both; letter from Charles M Gere - RA, RWS (1869 – 1957) English painter, illustrator of books, and stained glass and embroidery designer associated with the Arts and Crafts movement - to Emery Walker thanking him for his cheque and mentioning other monies received for the Harefield Fund (18 June 1930); two letters from William Robinson (1838 – 1935) Irish Gardener and Journalist, written from his property Gravetye Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex (Aug 1917 and 4 Sep 1926) cancelling a meeting and arranging another and recommending a train trip, the other talks about planting and when best to come and see the plants; Two letters from 'Doris' probably Doris Arthur Jones (fl. 1930s) dated April and May 1930 to Emery Walker, discussing at length the biography of her father she had written (The Life and Letters of Henry Arthur Jones, 1930), about to be published and how her late father and Bernard Shaw admired one another and were also jealous of each other; letter to Emery Walker from D S McColl - possibly Dugald Sutherland MacColl (1859 – 1948) Scottish watercolour painter, art critic, lecturer and writer - dated 7 Aug 1924 from Honfleur, Calvados, France, regarding Walker's appointment as a Trustee of the Wallace Collection, of which McColl had been Keeper from 1911 to 1924; photograph [undated] of Emery Walker, possibly taken in the 1880s or early 1890s.