The minute book is of considerable interest for the early history of the enterprise. It begins with the records of weekly meetings at the earliest premises, 8 Red Lion Square, and these continue regularly until 1864, although from May 1863 only the names of those present are recorded. The balance sheet provides valuable lists of objects made, and give the names of patrons and partners attended regularly (Rossetti did not unless important financial matters were discussed). Other entries include such diverse items of interest as the members agreeing to sends specimens of their work in reply to an invitation of an art school in Bombay; overruling patron's choice of subjects for stained glass in favour of ones they preferred; debating the right of ownership of cartoons and agreeing to withhold the names of designers from the public; making furniture to Philip Webb's designs for Meredith; deciding that a figure of Mary Magdalene by Rossetti (in St. Peter's, Bradford) was "inappropriate for its destination"; and allotting to Morris the design of a photograph album for 10 shillings, or, with Webb and Burne-Jones, the decoration of "Stereoscopic Boxes". A characteristic entry in the page covered with an elaborate joke by Burne-Jones when he and Faulkner alone turned up for a meeting on Christmas Eve, 1862. After 1864 there is a gap until May 16, 1867, when, ata meeting at 26, Queen's Square (the firm's premises after 1865) it is agreed that "£1 is paid to each member as capital returned, " and Philip Webb be offered "£80 per annum as consulting manager." A harsher and more business-like note continues until on October 23, 1874, it is "resolved unanimously that it is desirable that the firm be dissolved." Assessors are appointed to evaluate the shares and disputes break up the earlier friendships. The last meeting recorded took place on November, 4 1874, with solicitors present. After further financial dispute it was decided to hold a general meeting of the Firm "to endeavor, if possible to come to an amical adjustment of the process of dissolution". This finally took place in March, 1875. J. W. Mackail in describing this time in his life of Morris (Vol. 1, chap. IX, p. 316) quotes the arguments used by Madox Brown's solicitor reported in the minutes for November 4, 1874; Lady Burne-Jones also refers to these (Memorials II, p. 51).