'Ashbee Memoirs'

This material is held atKing's College Archives, University of Cambridge

Scope and Content

This series contains typescript selections of journal entries by C.R. Ashbee and Janet Ashbee, and letters, extracted from the journals by C.R. Ashbee (1935-8), with the intention of illustrating the work of the Guild of Handicrafts, the idea of the American League to Enforce Peace, the Jew-Arab question and the reaction of America to the problems of Europe; with introductions added by C.R. Ashbee in 1938 and an epilogue in 1940. Also contains a complete list, with biographical notes, on the fifty Masters of the Guild (1884-1934). 1884-1938.

Bibliography

The original volume 6 in this series was published as 'A Palestine Notebook' (1923).