PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::viu02780::Papers Pertaining to the Printing of Christopher Morley's "Apology for Boccaccio")//EN" "viu02780.xml" A Guide to the Papers Pertaining to the Printing of Christopher Morley's "Apology for Boccaccio", 1923Morley, Christopher, Papers Pertaining to the Printing of "Apology for Boccaccio" 6254-m Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library © 2002 By the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All rights reserved.

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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from MS Word 2000, created by niyi, 6/17/2002 Description is in English Feb 20, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::viu02780::Papers Pertaining to the Printing of Christopher Morley's "Apology for Boccaccio")//EN" "viu02780.xml" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Feb 27, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to the Papers Pertaining to the Printing of Christopher Morley's "Apology for Boccaccio," 1923 A Collection in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library The Special Collections Department 6254-m

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 2002 Special Collections Department Web version of the finding aid funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Special Collections, University of Virginia Library Descriptive Summary Special Collections, University of Virginia Library Papers Pertaining to the Printing of Christopher Morley's "Apology for Boccaccio," 1923 6254-m This collection consists of 4 items. English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Papers Pertaining to the Printing of Christopher Morley's "Apology for Boccaccio", Accession #6254-m, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

 Acquisition Information

This collection was transferred on 1989 August 21.

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The collection contains two sets of page proof, 1923, of "An apology for Boccaccio." One set of proofs on modern paper is corrected by Morley. A second set, presumably that of printer James S. Bates, is on 18th century paper obtained by James Shields for a limited edition of Morley's essay.

With these are two sets of proof for Shields' editorial "Note" for the "Apology," one on modern paper with corrections addressed to Bates, and one on 18th century paper.

Accompanying the proofs are a letter to Shields from Morley concerning the essay and a letter to Shields from Smart Set Company, Inc., granting permission to reprint.

 Contents List Manuscripts An Apology For Boccaccio 1923 Page Proofs

By Christopher Morley, apparently the printer's (James S. Bates) own copy of a rare Morley item, which was printed in an edition of eighteen copies on 18th Century handmade paper with an original deckle edge obtained from booksellers Bernard S. Foster and John Highlands in May 1922. The essay was originally written while Morley was an undergraduate at Oxford where it was read at a meeting of a literary club called "The Midwives" in 1912. "The Apology for Boccaccio" first appeared as an article in Smart Setin 1916. Morley was going to include the essay in Shandygaffbut withdrew the corrected galleys before publication because he felt it was too "juvenile." These galleys came to the attention of James Shields, an editor at The Evening Ledger, Philadelphia, in August 1919 where Morley wrote a column under the by-line "Socrates." He left the galleys with Shields who kept them until he could find enough 18th Century paper to privately publish a limited edition of the essay. This collection includes two complete sets of page proofs, one on very thin modern paper with Morley's corrections in pencil and Shields' corrections in ink, and the other on the 18th Century paper secured by Shields for his limited edition.

 An Apology For Boccaccioby Christopher Morley, an editorial note by James Shields 1923 Sep 17 Page Proofs Letters Christopher Morley to Jamie [James Shields] [1923] Jul 30 ALS. 2 p.

Informs Shields that he has corrected the proofs in pencil, suggests that they note it was published in Smart Setin 1916 and that the dedication was written by Shields, agrees to the copyright in Shields name and remarks "yours - with sorrow that the little juvenile piece isn't worthier of the trouble you're taking."

 Smart Set Company, Inc. to James Shields 1923 Sep 19 TLS. 1 p.

Gives Shields permission to reprint Morley's essay on "An Apology For Boccaccio," with proper credit.