The New Atlantis Foundation Dimitrije Mitrinovic Archive Catalogue

NAF 9/4 New Atlantis Foundation Lectures.

Date: 1954 -c2000

Extent: 9 files

Scope and content: Drafts and published versions of lectures published in the NAF series, including a file assembled when preparing to publish the lectures in book form. Also records of attendance at lectures and sales of the published versions.

NAF 9/4/1 File. "The New Atlantis Foundation", Copies of First New Atlantis Foundation Lecture.

Date: 1955

Extent: 12 items

Scope and content: Typescript copies of the first lecture in the series produced by the Foundation, concerning the organisation itself and its establishment by Dimitrije Mitrinović. Includes copy annotated by David Shillan.

Notes: 12 copies.

NAF 9/4/2 Booklets. New Atlantis Foundation Published Lectures.

Date: 1956 - 1984

Extent: 23 items

Scope and content: Includes a copy of "Principles and Aims of the New Atlantis Foundation". Authors include Ralph Twentyman, H.C. Rutherford, Ellen Mayne, Reverend Clifford Harley, A.C. Harwood, David Shillan, Benjamin Farrington, Carlo Tullio-Altan, Evelyn Derry-Capel, Jean M.G. Twentyman, and Violet MacDermot. Subjects include Max Stirner, Vladimir Solovyov, Rudolf Steiner, Bhagavan Das, Auguste Comte, Francis Bacon, Kant, Dimitrije Mitrinović, John Cowper Powys, Goethe, Hélan Jaworski, Patrick Geddes, Swedenborg, Erich Gutkind, races and nations, Otto Weininger, and Christianity.

Notes: Incomplete series. Missing lectures 1, 2, 5, 20, and 22.

NAF 9/4/3 Article, Otto Weininger on the Character of Man by Ellen Mayne.

Date: c1985

Extent: 7 pages

Scope and content: Photocopy of printed, corrected proof of Mayne's published 1981 New Atlantis Foundation lecture.

NAF 9/4/4 File. “Foundation Lectures, Spare Copies”, New Atlantis Foundation Lectures, Publication File.

Date: 1998

Extent: 7 sub-folders.

Scope and content: Photocopies and word-processed corrected drafts of lectures written by members of the Foundation and published between 1955 -1984. Includes photocopied and word-processed lists of lectures, introductory texts on the Foundation and the lecture series, with letters from Trustees concerning publishing the lectures in book form. Authors include Andrew Rigby, Ralph Twentyman, H.C. Rutherford, Ellen Mayne, Reverend Clifford Harley, A.C. Harwood, David Shillan, Benjamin Farrington, Carlo Tullio-Altan, Evelyn Derry-Capel, Jean M.G. Twentyman, and Violet MacDermot. Includes index.

NAF 9/4/5 Document. New Atlantis Foundation Lectures.

Date: [c2000]

Extent: 257 pages

Scope and content: Word-processed document consisting of lectures published as part of the series run by the N.A.F. 1955 -1982. Includes 'Anthropo-Biology: Towards a System of the Sciences' by L. R. Twentyman; 'The Sovereign Self through Max Stirner' by H. C. Rutherford; 'The Christian Philosophy of Vladimir Solovyov' by Ellen Mayne; 'The Philosophy of Emanuel Swedenborg: God, Man and the Cosmos' by Reverend Clifford Harley; 'The Renaissance of Mystery Wisdom in the Work of Rudolf Steiner' by A.C. Harwood; 'The Impulse of Rudolf Steiner to a Living Science' by L. R. Twentyman; ‘The Message of Bhagavan Das on the Present Significance of the Vedic Social Order’ by H. C. Rutherford; 'The Order of Mankind as seen by Auguste Comte' by David Shillan; 'The New Atlantis of Francis Bacon' by Benjamin Farrington; 'The Influence of Kantian Philosophy on Modern Anthropological Methodology' by Carlo Tullio-Altan [?]; 'The Religion of Logos and Sophia from the Writings of Dimitrije Mitrinović on Christianity' by H. C. Rutherford; 'The New Mythology of John Cowper Powys' by Ellen Mayne; 'Man's Development foreseen in Goethe's Faust' by Evelyn Derry Capel; 'The Organic Vision of Hélan Jaworski' by Jean M. G. Twentyman; 'Biotechnics: The Practice of Synthesis in the Work of Patrick Geddes' by David Shillan; 'Emanuel Swedenborg's Philosophy of the Human Organism' by Violet MacDermot; 'Erich Gutkind as Prophet of the New Age' by H. C. Rutherford; 'Races and Nations as Functions of the World Whole' by David Shillan; 'The Social Vision of Alfred Adler' by Violet MacDermot; ' Otto Weininger on the Character of Man' by Ellen Mayne; 'The Nature of Man approached through the Philosophy of Rudolf Steiner' by L. R. Twentyman; 'Christianity as Creative Myth' by H. C. Rutherford; 'Epilogue' and an index.

NAF 9/4/6 New Atlantis Foundation Lectures and Notes.

Date: 1954 - ?1960

Extent: 8 items

Scope and content: Five exercise books containing manuscript notes and lectures on philosophy and Solovyov. Typescript lecture on Solovyov, by Reginal Wrugh [?]. Typescript letter [?] by Ellen Mayne, reflecting on the legacy of Dimitrije Mitrinović, and typescript letter concerning the work of the New Atlantis Foundation by Harry Rutherford [?].

NAF 9/4/7 File. "God, Man, and the Church. V. Solovyev" [sic., Solovyov].

Date: October 1957

Extent: 2 items

Scope and content: Manuscript notes by Reginal Wrugh on Solovyov for New Atlantis Foundation lecture, typescript translation of ‘God, man and the Church’, by Vladimir Solovyov (London: Clarke, 1938).

NAF 9/4/8 New Atlantis Foundation Lectures Attendance Book.

Date: 1956 -1983

Extent: 1 volume

Scope and content: Hard-backed notebook containing details of lectures with names and addresses of those attending.

NAF 9/4/9 Analysis Book. Sales of Published New Atlantis Foundation Lectures.

Date: 1965 - 1992

Extent: 1 volume

Scope and content: Ledger recording sales, recording ISBNs, dates, and names of bookshops, libraries and individuals ordering copies.

NAF 9/5 Records of New Atlantis Foundation Conferences.

Date: 1989 -1990

Extent: 1 file

Scope and content: Documents relating to running a New Atlantis Foundation conference and musical performances.

Notes: See also NAF 3/3/3/3, Winifred Gordon Fraser's file on New Atlantis events.

NAF 9/5/1 File. "Conference 1990", Records of New Atlantis Foundation Conferences.

Date: 1989 -1990

Extent: 51 items

Scope and content: Includes programme, lists of delegates, notes on finances and catering, letters, report of discussion, conference papers (including a discussion document about the Foundation's Archive), and records of the Foundation's activities.