Nimbus Notes

Posted by WSP
Nov 25, 2014 at 09:27 PM

Daly de Gagne wrote:
> >BTW any info on Morris’s writing study habits etc? I am always
>interested in how 19th century & early 20th century writers wrote before
>onslaught of subsequent technology. :)
> >
Daly, I have always been interested mainly in Morris’s activities as a printer rather than in his purely literary work, but I have spent quite a bit of time going through his papers at the British Library and elsewhere. Morris was a bundle of energy and accomplished a great deal in his life, but I sense that he was also extremely messy and disorganized. Fortunately, in his later years he had Sydney Cockerell working for him as a secretary, and Cockerell was meticulous beyond belief. Cockerell’s usual technique was to bind miscellaneous documents together in notebooks and then write a careful table of contents on a flyleaf in his small, precise handwriting.

By the way, a small update: it appears that OneNote can’t really handle a database of 2,000 items. It has been collapsing repeatedly the past few days. So for the catalogue of Morris’s library I am now thinking of turning once again to MyInfo, which doesn’t have the flashy features of Evernote and OneNote but is wonderfully stable.

Bill