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Did William Morris influence to H G Wells's The Time Machine?

H G Wells knew Morris slightly, and in his autobiography (1934) writes about visiting Morris’s house in Hammersmith, where the socialists held meetings. The type of Society is different (Morris is more optimistic) but the Eloi definitely reflect the Utopian ideas of the period which both men seem to have shared.