Eugene LeMire

In 2006, Emeritus Professor (College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University) Eugene LeMire, with Oak Knoll Press, released A bibliography of William Morris.

 The bibliography was a massive undertaking, with Eugene stating in a paper presented to the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Conference in 1993:

“There are many reasons, sensible reasons, for not starting on a bibliography of William Morris, the first and foremost being that the job is simply too large and too complicated. Indeed, there is some reason to believe that this is the basic reason why no one has attempted it since Temple Scott (i.e.]. H. Isaacs) and Harry Buxton Forman did their bibliographies of Morris in 1897, nearly a century ago.”

In spite of this Eugene put forth a proposal to write such a book, spending years on the project, seeking not only to provide an account of Morris’ writings, but also focusing on the ways by which they reached the public.

Eugene LeMire remembered his studies as an intellectual transformation:

"the university promised me something that I could not have defined at the time: the possibility of a true independence of mind".

Eugene left an extensive collection of William Morris material to the University of Adelaide Library in 2016. The collection consists of two parts, the first is the Eugene LeMire William Morris Collection, which is made up of published works by and about Morris, which is held as a separate collection.

The second part is a collection of source material and notes collected by Eugene while working on A bibliography of William Morris, which is held as part of the University of Adelaide Library's Manuscript Collection (MSS 0246).