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One of the reasons so many of us love William Morris is the ability of his ideas and styles to transcend time and place.   Last year I wrote about the wonderful Arts & Crafts Press located in Tacoma, Washington. This local Tacoma Press embodies the principles of the Arts & Crafts movement, a movement that is well documented in the book by Lawrence Kreisman and Glenn Mason, The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Pacific Northwest (Timber Press, 2007). The book provides a comprehensive review of the movement in Washington and Oregon. In the introductory chapter, the authors provide a clue to the origins of the movement in this region: the visit of one leader of the second generation of Arts & Crafts advocates from England, Charles Robert (C.R.) Ashbee, who was inspired and influenced by Morris.    Ashbee visited the Northwest and gave several lectures in 1909 and greatly influenced the evolution of design in this area. Charles Robert Ashbee was born in 1863 in London, the son