Letters, mainly from Edward Gordon Craig to Guido Morris of The Latin Press, written between 1936 and 1940 and a few sent in 1945.

Several letters include original sketches and prints by Craig and specimens from The Latin Press. Also included is correspondence (1911-1926) from Craig to Harold Monro, English poet and proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London, and a few carbons of Monro’s letters to Craig. Interspersed are some letters from Eric Gill to Guido Morris and a few letters from other correspondents to Monro. The letters to Morris contain much entertaining news about Craig’s artistic projects, theatrical reminiscences, advice from Craig to Morris about the ongoing challenges of making a go of The Latin Press, and a fair amount of personal information; those to Monro are more businesslike and concern chiefly publication projects.

Additional correspondence by and about Craig is to be found in the Harry Kessler Letters (Wing Modern MS Kess), the Floyd Dell Papers (Midwest MS Dell), and the Will Ransom Papers (Wing Modern MS Rans). A survey of this material was published by Carolyn Sheehy, “‘Radure noscoste e bellezze inospettate,’ i manoscritti di Craig alla Newberry Library di Chicago,” in Gordon Craig in Italia (Rome, Bulzoni, 1993), 261-273. Books, ephemera and proofs regarding the Latin Press are found in the Wing collection. See especially: Wing oversize ZP 945 .M83.