Artists’ Papers Register
A location register of the papers of artists, designers and craftspeople held in publicly accessible collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland
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Artists’ Papers RegisterA location register of the papers of artists, designers and craftspeople held in publicly accessible collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland |
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| GB/NNAF/P844 Ashbee, Charles Robert (1863-1942) Gender: Male Functions, occupations and activities Born at Isleworth, Middlesex (17 May 1863); educated at Wellington College and at King's College, Cambridge (graduated 1886); articled as an architect to G F Bodley; set up his own practice, but his main work was in handicraft revival; founded the London Survey Committee; member of the Art-Worker's Guild (1897) and Master (1929); established the Guild of Handicraft (1888-1907); married Janet Elizabeth Forbes (1898) and had four daughters; continued in architectural practice; gave lecture tours in America; served with a field ambulance in the Middle East (World War I) and taught in Egypt (1918); civic advisory and secretary to the Pro-Jerusalem Society, until resigning (1922); died at Godden Green, Kent (23 May 1942) Thesaurus ARCHITECTS DESIGNERS FOUNDERS (orignators) Relationships Associate relationship with Guild of Handicraft, Chipping Campden Founder of the Guild, 1888 Associate relationship with London Survey Committee Founder Archival Resources Number noted: 46 Correspondence with members of staff at the BBC, 1931-1939 Held at: BBC Written Archives Centre Document reference: Radio Contributord.910, file 1b Other information: Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Radio talk transcripts (1 file), 1926-1939 Held at: BBC Written Archives Centre Document reference: Contributor Files: A Other information: BBC Radio Contributor Files A-Z Correspondence with members of staff at the BBC, 1926-1930 Held at: BBC Written Archives Centre Document reference: Radio Contributors.910, file 1a Other information: Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Letters from Ashbee and Katherine Kingsford in the correspondence files of Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, 1901-1902 Held at: British Library, Manuscript Collections Document reference: Add.Mss.52703 Other information: Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Letters (2) to John Tresidder Sheppard, 1936-1937 Held at: Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre Document reference: Sheppard Papers Other information: Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Letters (5) to Ronald E Balfour, 1933-1934 Held at: Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre Other information: Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Caricature (essay with drawings), 1928 Held at: Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre Other information: Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Letters (2) to E F Bulmer, 1926-1932 Held at: Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre Other information: Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Letters (4) and a postcard to Roger Fry, 1886-1887 Held at: Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre Document reference: Fry Papers Other information: Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Journals, containing diary entries, correspondence, photographs and newspaper cuttings, 1884-1941 Held at: Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre Document reference: Ashbee Journals Other information: Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Memoirs (6 volumes), 1884-1938 Held at: Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre Other information: Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Letters (23) from him and his parents to Oscar Browning, 1884-1911 Held at: Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre Document reference: OB Other information: Location Register of 20th Century Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Essays, notes, town and architectural plans: a miscellaneous collection of works Held at: Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre Other information: Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Letters (2) to Leonard Elmhirst, 1936-1937 Held at: Dartington Hall Trust Archive Document reference: LKE general 1 Other information: Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Architectural plans (500), c1888-1919 Held at: Guild of Handicraft Trust School of Arts and Crafts annual reports, visitors book and photographs, 1888-1919 Held at: Guild of Handicraft Trust Comments: See record entry for Guild of Handicraft Architectural report for Pro-Jerusalem Society, 1920 Held at: Lambeth Palace Library Document reference: MS 1404 Comments: Letter of introduction and two passport sized photographs required Report on antiquities in Jerusalem by Ashbee, 1920 Held at: Lambeth Palace Library Document reference: MS1404 Other information: Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Comments: Letter of introduction and two passport sized photographs required Letters (2) to Clement Shorter, 1905 Held at: Leeds University Library, Special Collections Document reference: Brotherton Collection. Shorter Correspondence Other information: Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Typescript memoirs [unpublished] [6 vols.] ; letters (transcripts), 1938-47 Held at: London Library Document reference: Safe, Mss Comments: Proof of identity and letter of introduction required Architectural notes on East London and Essex; as part of London Survey Committee, 1894-99 Held at: London Metropolitan Archives Document reference: A/LSC Correspondence (14 items) with Thomas Sturge Moore, 1900-01 Held at: London University Library Document reference: Sturge Moore papers, box 28 Other information: Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Reports for Oxford University External Studies Department, 1892-98 Held at: Oxford University Archives Document reference: DES/R/3 Other information: Location Register of 20th Century Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Lecturer's reports (brief notes on 10 courses taught for the External Studies Department by Ashbee), 1892-1898 Held at: Oxford University Archives Document reference: DES/R/3/10, 13, 14, 16, 25 & 27 Other information: Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Letters to John Johnson, c1930-55 Held at: Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts Document reference: MSS.Johnson c.16-28 Other information: Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (1991) Letter to Sir Isidore Spielmann, 1897 Held at: Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts Document reference: MS.Eng.misc.d.87, fol.25 Other information: Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Letters in Max Beerbohm's collected correspondence Held at: Oxford University: Merton College Library Document reference: Max Beerbohm Collection 5a Other information: Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Letter from Ashbee in Percy Wither's collected in-mail Held at: Oxford University: Somerville College Library Document reference: PW Misc Other information: Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Letter in the Chatto & Windus correspondence files, 1927 Held at: Reading University Library Document reference: MS2444 Other information: Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Letters to Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1908-1927 Held at: Reading University Library Document reference: MS1089 Other information: Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Letters (4) from Ashbee in the archives of George Bell & Sons, 1899-1901 Held at: Reading University Library Document reference: MS1640 Other information: Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Letter to the Royal Academy of Arts, 1894 Held at: Royal Academy of Arts Document reference: RAC/5/39 Other information: Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Miscellaneous papers Held at: Royal Institute of British Architects Library Document reference: AsC Papers relating to involvement with the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings Held at: Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings Comments: Access by appointment V&A Art Referee Report by Charles Ashbee, 1892-1927 Held at: Victoria & Albert Museum, Archive of Art and Design Document reference: MA/1/A953 Comments: Access by appointment only Sketchbook of France & Sicily, 1904-1907 Held at: Victoria & Albert Museum, Department of Designs, Prints and Drawings Document reference: E.500-1966 Memoirs (ts), compiled from journals written by him and J E Ashbee, with ms annotations by him, c 1886 - 1927 Held at: Victoria & Albert Museum, National Art Library Document reference: MSL/1959/2168-73 Comments: Access by appointment Typescripts of autobiographical and biographical writings by him, 1927, 1938, 1940-1941 Held at: Victoria & Albert Museum, National Art Library Document reference: MSL/1959/2175-7 Other information: Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Comments: Access by appointment Letters and papers concerning "Peckover: the Abbotscourt papers 1904-1931" edited by him, including some original illustrations for the book by R Savage, and proofs, 1925-1932 Held at: Victoria & Albert Museum, National Art Library Document reference: MSL/1959/2188 Other information: Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Comments: Access by appointment Letters (39) to G S Tomkinson, including material relating to the Essex House Press, 1924-28 Held at: Victoria & Albert Museum, National Art Library Document reference: MSL/1983/10 Other information: Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Comments: Access by appointment Guild of Handicraft minute book (1 vol), signed by him, 1900-1904 Held at: Victoria & Albert Museum, National Art Library Document reference: MSL/1986/12 Comments: Access by appointment Letter from, to Sir Edwin Poynter, 1897 Held at: Victoria & Albert Museum, National Art Library Document reference: MSL/1999/2/107 Other information: Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Comments: Access by appointment Guild workshop book, including drawings of furniture, jewellery, plate etc, many signed by him; also photographs, printed illustrations, examples of designs by pupils, 1889-1899 Held at: Victoria & Albert Museum, National Art Library Document reference: MSL/1975/5836-41 Comments: Access by appointment Correspondence address to him and others concerning the establishment of the School of Handicraft, 1887-1891 Held at: Victoria & Albert Museum, National Art Library Document reference: MSL/1959/2188A Other information: Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Comments: Access by appointment Collection (51 items) of letters, journal entries, sketches, photographs, etc, 1886-1887 Held at: Victoria & Albert Museum, National Art Library Document reference: MSL/1959/2174 Other information: Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988) Comments: Access by appointment Correspondence regarding tryptych, St James' Church, Walthamstow, 1910 Held at: Waltham Forest Archives and Local Studies Library Document reference: W83.25/57 Date of creation: 07 November 2002
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