NAF 3/6 Papers of Clive Lane and Hilda Lane.
Date: 1925 - 1976
Extent: 5 files
Scope and content: Notes and notebooks, articles, speeches, letters, press cuttings and other material created by, or collected by, Clive and Hilda Lane.
NAF 3/6/1 "Misc. Clive Lane", Correspondence file.
Date: March 1925 - 15 March 1940
Extent: 4 items
Scope and content: Manuscript letter in pencil to "F.H." from Lilian Slade [?], written on New Britain compliments slips, discussing philosophical problems including time and reality (1934). Telegram from Dimitrije Mitrinović to Clive Lane, asking him to attend an event (1940). Envelope marked "Chuang Tsze" and an "Ex Libris" label from Mitrinović's library.
NAF 3/6/2 "Clive Lane", Notes and Articles by Lane.
Date: ?1936 - 1968
Extent: 16 items
Scope and content: Includes notebook with manuscript notes on Astrology and Psychology; black and white photograph of a small child; manuscript notes and typescript articles on various subjects including Economics and the reorganisation of Industry and international Politics; draft manuscript letter from Lane, R.S. Oliver, C.G. Mayo to T.G.N. Haldane, President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers.
NAF 3/6/3 "Funny", Comic Material Collected by Clive Lane.
Date: 1936 - ?1968
Extent: 50 items
Scope and content: Including press cuttings of work by Nat Gubbins [Nathaniel Gubbins] and Maurice Lane-Norcott dating from the Second World War; drafts of comic speeches by Clive Lane; manuscript copies of humorous works made by Winifred Gordon Fraser; typescript copy of comic speech made to the House of Industry League. Includes a manuscript letter from Clive Lane to Harry Rutherford, accompanying a satirical piece.
Access conditions: Material includes third party copyrights.
NAF 3/6/4 File. “Clive & Hilda - Handwritten" Notes by Clive Lane and Hilda Lane.
Date: 1941 - 1946
Extent: 41 items
Scope and content: Manuscript documents, including a "Statement on the Central Group of the Senate Initiative of the New Atlantis [...]"; "Blackies", "Whities" and "Monsters"; "Soltice Conference Report"; papers on the Rosicrucian Lodge; Axiology; "The Initiative of Woman"; and War, amongst other subjects. Includes a letter from Clive Lane to David Shillan, 21 February 1944, discussing the death of John [John Harker?], his reaction to a book by Guenther Waschmuth, the effect of wartime censorship on his working life, and asking for Shillan's opinion on some notes he had written on Natural Science.
Note: "Blackies", "Whities" and "Monsters" were terms used by Dimitrije Mitrinović relating to ways of experiencing time and types of consciousness.
NAF 3/6/5 File. "Handwritten Notes. Clive & Hilda", Notes by Clive Lane and Hilda Lane.
Date: 1938 -1976
Extent: 95 items
Scope and content: Loose sheets of notes and notebooks, mostly dating from 1945 -1950. Includes notes on the New Atlantis Initiative group, the activities of the New Europe Group and the Renaissance Club sub-group, philosophy, reading matter, Dimitrije Mitrinović's notion of Senate, "Englishness", monetary reform, economic reform and gender, amongst other subjects.
NAF 3/7 Papers of Violet MacDermot.
Date: [1960s - 1970s]
Extent: 1 File
Scope and content: Notes, particularly relating to the teachings of Dimitrije Mitrinović and the various groups he established.
Access conditions:
Language of material:
Notes: See also NAF 2/2/42, NAF 3/20 and NAF 8/1, MacDermot's records of the Anthropo-Femina group.
NAF 3/7/1 File. “V.M.D. handwritten and typed notes (some copies of H.C.R., W.G.F. etc.)”. Notes by Violet MacDermot.
Date: [1960s - 1970s]
Extent: 5 sub-sections
Scope and content: Manuscript and typescript documents created by Violet MacDermot. Includes copies of earlier work by Harry Rutherford, Winifred Gordon Fraser, and others. Includes notes on philosophy, Psychology, Group Work and various groups started by Dimitrije Mitrinović and "Aphorisms Spoken by D.M. [Dimitrije Mitrinović]".
NAF 3/8 Papers of Christopher Mayne and Ellen Mayne.
Date: 1934 -1973
Extent: 9 files
Scope and content: Loose notes and notebooks, correspondence. Includes material Ellen Mayne gathered and created in the course of research for a biography of Dimitrije Mitrinović.
Notes: See also NAF 2/2/14; NAF 9/1/3, NAF 9/3/11; NAF 9/4/3 for Ellen Mayne's work with the New Atlantis Foundation; NAF 11/3/7 and NAF 11/3/8 for photographs and some papers relating to Ellen Mayne.
NAF 3/8/1 "C.J.H. Mayne", "C.J.H.M.", Notes by Christopher Mayne.
Date: 1934 - 1939
Extent: 2 folders
Scope and content: Manuscript notes (including 6 notebooks), typescript and printed documents. Subjects include Third Force, semantics, socialism, political theory, money, international affairs, New Britain and the New Europe Group, devolution, the Atlantic Alliance, law, the House of Industry League and the Senate Initiative.
NAF 3/8/2 Notebook of Ellen Mayne [?].
Date: c1930s
Extent: 1 volume
Scope and content: Notebook with manuscript list of names and a loose document inserted with a horoscope for Ellen Mayne.
NAF 3/8/3 File. "Colours", Notes on the Teachings of Dimitrije Mitrinović on Psychology.
Date: 1946 - 1947
Extent: 13 items
Scope and content: Typescript and copy typescript documents concerning Mitrinović's division of people into different personality types, "Blackies", "Whities" and "Monsters".
Notes: 3 copies.
NAF 3/8/4 File. "Anti-Minotaur", Notes on the Philosophy of Dimitrije Mitrinović.
Date: 1946 - 1947
Extent: 15 items
Scope and content: Typescript and copy typescript documents entitled "The Four Conditions of the Change of Man", "Four Onlys", "The Four Evils", "The Chromatics and Axiology of the Anti-Minotaur Sigma" and "Anti-Minotaur".
Notes: 3 copies.
NAF 3/8/5 File. "Notes" "E.F.M.", Ellen Mayne.
Date: 1946 - 1947
Extent: 27 items
Scope and content: Typescript and copy typescript notes relating to "Cactus", or group work, Yoga, and the teachings of Dimitrije Mitrinović.
Notes: 3 copies.
NAF 3/8/6 File. "Cactus - Zen", Notes on Dimitrije Mitrinović's Beliefs.
Date: 1946 - 1947
Extent: 15 items
Scope and content: Typescript and copy typescript notes by "G.F." on Mitrinović's core values, teachings on Zen, and definitions of terms as used by Mitrinović.
Notes: 3 copies.
NAF 3/8/7 Volume. Notebook, Teachings of Dimitrije Mitrinović.
Date: [c1960s]
Extent: 1 volume
Scope and content: Triplicate notebook with fair manuscript copy of notes originally recorded in 1945 -1950 by Ellen Mayne [?]. Subjects covered include the New Atlantis, Third Force and Mitrinović's response to the bombing of Hiroshima, amongst other subjects.
NAF 3/8/8 Correspondence of Ellen Mayne concerning a Biography of Dimitrije Mitrinović.
Date: 1953, 1966 -1973
Extent: 12 items
Scope and content: Typescript and manuscript letters, many of which relate to Mitrinović's friendship with Erich Gutkind. Correspondents include Roy Finch (i.e. Henry LeRoy Finch, executor of Erich Gutkind), Ellen Mayne, Leo Kohlberg, Amy S. Doherty (University Archivist, Syracuse), and Paul Selver. Includes press cutting concerning the death of the Duke of Bedford (New York Times, 1953), which Gutkind believed might be connected with Mitrinović's death. Several letters discuss and refute this claim. The rest discuss Mitrinović's early life, relationships with Gutkind and Ivan Meštrović and his friends' recollections of him.
NAF 3/8/9 "Human Household" Notebook Belonging to Ellen Mayne.
Date: [c1930s - 1940s]
Extent: 1 volume
Scope and content: Pocket-sized notebook with notes recording the principles of the close group around Dimitrije Mitrinović.
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