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- ↑ National Archives, "Charles L Fitzgerald"
- ↑ G. D. H. Cole, British working class politics, 1832-1914, p.92
- ↑ Robin Page Arnot, William Morris: The Man and the Myth, p.47
- 1 2 Austen Morgan, J. Ramsay MacDonald, p.15
- ↑ Norman Kelvin, The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume II, Part A: 1881-1884, p.253