| Description | The following letters are mostly addressed to William Downing himself, or to the business. They are mainly from customers and include a number of famous public figures e.g. William Morris, W. E. Gladstone, Edward Gordon Craig theatrical designer and artist, W. B. Yeats, Sydney Cockerell friend of William Morris and secretary to the Kelmscott Press, Ellen Terry, Henry M. Stanley explorer, Edward Detmold artist & illustrator J. M. Barrie, William Galsworthy and others. |