NAF 3/15 Papers of, and relating to, Frederick Soddy

NAF 3/15/1 Pack sent from the American Institute of Man to Frederick Soddy.

Extent: 3 items

Scope and content: Typescript letter and accompanying documents sent to Fellows of the Royal Society of London, discussing a complex practical mathematical joke. Includes pamphlet, A Special Announcement and Mathematical Challenge to the Members of the 1950 International Congress of Mathematics and "The Altar of Britannia. An Unexpected Contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain" by Alexander Weaver Ebin.

NAF 3/15/2 Correspondence between David Shillan and The Soddy Memorial Trust.

Extent: 18 items

Scope and content: Typescript and manuscript letters between Shillan and Muriel Howorth of the Trust. Includes promotional material for books by Howorth, a published letter from Howorth to the Editor of The Author (1959), and a list of members of the Trust. Many of the letters concern lectures for the Trust.

NAF 3/16 Papers of Helen Soden.

Extent: 1 File

Scope and content: Records kept by Soden, including postcards, notes and documents concerning the teachings of Dimitrije Mitrinovi

and the Second World War.

Notes: See also NAF 1/7/4 - NAF 1/7/6.

NAF 3/16/1 Helen Soden Papers.

Extent: 7 items

Scope and content: Manuscript document "Roll of Honour" listing those who had died 1938 -1945 or who were absent from Dimitrije Mitrinović's circle; notes in Mitrinović's hand, including on flowers; postcard from Helen Soden to Mitrinović; lettercard to Mitrinović from "Jelena" and Lilian Slade; typescript document entitled "The Sanctuary of Pan-Communion and of Silence"; telegram to Helen Soden.

NAF 3/17 Papers relating to Watson Thomson.

Extent: 1 File

Scope and content: Correspondence with, and relating to, Watson Thomson and the circle around Dimitrije Mitrinović. Includes letters relating to Thomson's autobiography.

Notes: See also NAF 5/3/16.

NAF 3/17/1 "Watson Thomson Correspondence", Correspondence with, and relating to, Watson Thomson.

Date: 1932 -1981

Extent: 80 items

Scope and content: File of typescript and manuscript letters, principally between Mary Thomson (wife of Watson Thomson) and David Shillan. Subjects include the activities of the New Atlantis Foundation, Thomson's relationship with Dimitrije Mitrinović, a biography of Thomson, Michael Welton's research on Thomson, Sidereal Birth by Erich Gutkind, news of mutual friends, Mitrinović's philosophy, Mary Thomson's nuclear disarmament campaigning, Andrew Rigby's biography of Mitrinović, Alan Watts, the Renaissance Bulletin, Thomson's autobiography, post-war Canada and the New Europe Group, the death of Valerie Cooper, biographical accounts of Mitrinović and his presentation to the public, fascism and "the British spirit", Watson Thomson's work, the death of Orion Playfair and the roles of various group members in the Second World War.

Addressees and correspondents include Watson Thomson, Mary Thomson, Winifred Gordon Fraser, David Shillan, Professor Harry L. Penny, Roy Daniells, Laurenda Daniells, Violet MacDermot, Harry Rutherford, Ellen Mayne, Professor W.R. Niblett, Valerie Cooper, Rex Campbell, Edith E. Holtom, and the New Europe Group. Includes a list of Thomson-related material held by the Library at the University of British Columbia, outline of a proposed biography of Thomson, typescript document from Thomson's Memorial Service, "Reflections on the Death of Watson Thomson, Educator and Humanist" by Goldie Penny and Harry Penny, a press cutting of Thomson's obituary, notes on Watson's autobiography Turning into Tomorrow, scripts for CBC broadcasts "Living with the H-Bomb" by Thomson (1955).

NAF 3/18 Papers of Iris Tree.

Date: 1924 -1926

Extent: 1 File

Scope and content: Poems and letters from Iris Tree to Dimitrije Mitrinović.

Language of material: English; German

NAF 3/18/1 "Iris Tree", Letters and Poems.

Date: 1924 -1926

Extent: 42 items

Scope and content: Manuscript and typescript poems and drafts of poems (some annotated). Includes a later manuscript compilation of extracts from Tree's letters, and a translation of a poem into German by "J.S." Manuscript letters to Dimitrije Mitrinović from Tree, and one typescript letter.

Language of material: English; German

NAF 3/19 Papers relating to Dr Llewelyn Ralph Twentyman.

Date: 1936 -1970s

Extent: 1 file

Scope and content: Articles, an address, notes and a letter by Twentyman. Includes material relating to Twentyman's medical career and plans for the New Atlantis Foundation.

Notes: See also NAF 9/6/28.

NAF 3/19/1 “L.R. Twentyman and Medical”, Documents relating to Dr Ralph Twentyman.

Date: 1936 -1970s

Extent: 11 items

Scope and content: Includes photocopy of an address entitled "The Evolutionary Significance of Samuel Hahnemann"; printed and typescript material related to plans to turn Norfolk Lodge, Richmond, into a convalescent home; manuscript and typescript notes on Astrology and "The Psychology of Good Luck"; reprinted articles from the Cambridge University Medical Society Magazine, 'The Social Function of Medicine', 'The Future of Medicine' and 'For Medicine: Functional Responsibility or Splendid Isolation?' by Twentyman and others; typescript talk, "Man and Animal"; typescript "Memorandum on Research into Cancer"; typescript letter from Twentyman to "Bob" on medicine and the social state (1946); annotated typescript article, "Planetary Medicine."

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