The William Morris Papers are comprised of 21 letters and postcards written by William Morris to Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson with two exceptions: a letter to William Holman Hunt (1881) and an undated transcription of Morris's poem, May Grown a-Cold, which was first published in an 1890 volume of The Atlantic Monthly. The letters, written during Morris's most politically active years, chronicle his engagements with varying 19th century British socialist groups and make reference to Cobden-Sanderson's bookbinding business. Many of the letters in this small collection are included in Norman Kelvin's The Collected Letters of William Morris(Princeton: 1987).