The New Atlantis Foundation Dimitrije Mitrinović Archive: Catalogue
NAF 6/3 New Britain Group Publications and Related Material
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- NAF 6/3/1 Records of New Britain Weekly and New Britain Political Statements.
- NAF 6/3/2 " New Britain Weekly Correspondence 1934."
- NAF 6/3/3 File. "Otakar Březina", Translated Works.
- NAF 6/3/5 "Index of Contributors to Eleventh Hour ."
NAF 6/3 New Britain Group Publications and Related Material.Date: 1933-c1970s Extent: 6 files Scope and content: Records of New Britain publications, particularly the New Britain Weekly, New Britain Quarterly, and The Eleventh Hour Bulletin. Includes material relating to editorial policy, correspondence with readers, drafts of poems and later indexes of contributors. Notes: The Mitrinović Library holds copies of the New Britain publications. See University of Bradford Library catalogue. See also NAF 11/3/4, photographs taken for New Britain. NAF 6/3/1 Records of New Britain Weekly and New Britain Political Statements.Date: 1933 -1939; 1955 Extent: 3 sub-sections Scope and content: Includes "Comments etc. relating to New Britain Weekly", recording correspondence, suggestions and Editorial Policy; typescript statements of principles of the New Britain Movement; printed supplements to New Britain and The Eleventh Hour by Frederick Soddy and Arthur Kitson; typescript document "An Appeal to the Trades Union Congress". Subject matter includes economic reform, monetary reform, the British Empire, "Cultural Aims of New Britain", the Social State, international relations, the Second World War, the Caractacus Club and the House of Industry League.
Extent: 57 items Scope and content: Letters mainly relating to the appeal for financial support.
Date: 1 August 1934 Extent: 2 pages, 4 sides Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from 25 Indiana Avenue, Belfast, responding to an editorial plea for feedback on the paper. Alexander expresses his reservations about the New Britain Movement's ability to put its ideas into practice, perceived changes in the paper since C.B. Purdom's departure as Editor and the style of editorials. NAF 6/3/2/2 Letter to the Editor, New Britain Weekly from Henry J. James. Date: 1 August 1934 Extent: 5 pages Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from 93 Packington St., London, N.1, responding to a plea in the paper for feedback. James discusses "Direct Action", "Freedom", reforming the monetary and political system, and the writing style of New Britain. NAF 6/3/2/3 Letter to the Editor, New Britain Weekly from Mrs. G.F. P[..]gs [?]. Date: 1 August 1934 Extent: 3 pages Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from The Greenwood, Sandy Lane, Oxted, Surrey, responding (as a journalist) to the paper's appeal for donations and feedback from readers. She discusses the paper's audience, values, Social Credit, Class War, and her habit of censoring articles. Notes: Signature illegible.
Date: 1 August 1934 Extent: 2 pages Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from 29 Oakhall Road, London, S.W.15, discussing recent changes at the paper, its position on rearmament and prospects for peace in Europe. NAF 6/3/2/5 Letter to the Editor, New Britain Weekly from Norman C. Pallant. Date: 1 August 1934 Extent: 3 pages Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from 11 College Street, St Albans, Hertfordshire, responding to the Emergency Appeal for donations to the New Britain and request for readers' feedback. Pallant gives his views on the paper's style and complexity, and overly spiritual focus. NAF 6/3/2/6 Postcard to the Editor, New Britain Weekly from A. J. Squire. Date: 2 August 1934 Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Postcard sent from 15 Park Avenue South, London N.8., giving feedback on the paper. NAF 6/3/2/7 Letter to the Editor, New Britain Weekly from H.G. Dempster. Date: 2 August 1934 Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Typescript letter sent from South Downs, Kintale, Kenya, asking about the possibility of establishing the New Britain Movement in Kenya, in response to the rise of Fascism there. NAF 6/3/2/8 Letter to the Editors, New Britain Weekly from W. Stewart Smith. Date: 2 August 1934 Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from Blythebank, West Cults, Aberdeenshire, giving Smith's opinion of the paper, and originally enclosing a donation to support its Emergency Appeal Fund. NAF 6/3/2/9 Letter to the Editors, New Britain Weekly from Cicely M. Marshall. Date: 3 August 1934 Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Typescript letter sent from 32 Chepstow Villas, London W.11, discussing the economic ideas of Rudolf Steiner. NAF 6/3/2/10 Letter to the Editor, New Britain Weekly from Miss J.K. Morgan. Date: 3 August 1934 Extent: 4 pages Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from Glebe Croft, Banstead, Surrey, comprising suggestions for the paper, and discussing J.T. Murphy's recent article, Socialism, contributions by "The Scholar", promotion, re-titling the Eleventh Hour Bulletin as the "New Britain". NAF 6/3/2/11 Letter to the Editor, New Britain Weekly from Jude Shuttleworth. Date: 4 August [1934] Extent: 1 page, 2 sides Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from 17 Lancaster Road, London N.W.3, originally enclosing a donation to support the magazine and expressing her support for the New Britain Movement. Shuttleworth offers suggestions and reports that she worked to get the Oxford Union to subscribe. NAF 6/3/2/12 Letter to the Editors, New Britain Weekly from James Murray. Date: 5 August 1934 Extent: 2 pages Scope and content: Typescript letter sent from Senga, Kilsyth. Murray gives details of donations he is willing to make, and mentioning letters of his that the magazine had published. He critiques the language used in the magazine and makes suggestions for economic reforms and a magazine competition. NAF 6/3/2/13 Letter to the Editor, New Britain Weekly from Paul G. Mandahl. Date: 5 August 1934 Extent: 2 pages, 4 sides Scope and content: Manuscript letter c/o Herr Hedendahl, Herrong, Sweden, originally enclosing a donation and giving positive and negative feedback on various columns in the paper and its style. NAF 6/3/2/14 Letter to the Editors, New Britain Weekly from O. Shenton. Date: 6 August 1934 Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent to 133 Folkestone Road, Dover, suggesting that the editors develop a Christian focus for the New Britain Movement and paper. NAF 6/3/2/15 Draft Letter to O. Shenton from the Editors, New Britain Weekly. Date: [August 1934] Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Manuscript draft response to Shenton's suggestion that New Britain become more Christian in its outlook [see NAF 6/3/2/14]. NAF 6/3/2/16 Letter to the Editor, New Britain Weekly from J.B. Tonance Jr. Date: 6 August 1934 Extent: 3 pages, 10 sides Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent c/o Ironside, Coylum Bridge, Aviemore, Invernesshire, discussing the importance of the paper, responses to the horrors of the First World War, offering suggestions for the paper and responding to a recent article by J.T. Murphy. NAF 6/3/2/17 Letter to the Editor, New Britain Weekly from Dr. Meyrick Booth. Date: 6 August 1934 Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Typescript letter sent from 182 Icknield Way, Letchworth, responding to the Editors' request for feedback on the paper. Booth asks for more practical content and discusses the paper's position on Nazi Germany and prospects for peace. NAF 6/3/2/18 Letter to the Editors, New Britain Weekly from Constance C. Radcliffe Cooke. Date: 6 August 1934 Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Typescript letter sent from Eton, Argyll Street, Ryde, Isle of Wight. Radcliffe Cooke discusses the relevance of the paper, the views of J.T. Murphy, New Britain's support of an appointed, not representative, system of government. An annotation notes that the Editors replied, correcting her misconception. NAF 6/3/2/19 Letter to the Editors, New Britain Weekly from Norman C. Pallant. Date: 8 August 1934 Extent: 8 pages Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from 11 College Street, St Albans, Hertfordshire, mourning the loss of the weekly paper and offering suggestions for a lighter, more readable New Britain, bolstering sales through local branches of the New Britain Movement, and other ways to advertise and increase sales. NAF 6/3/2/20 Letter to the Editor, New Britain Weekly from Valentine Davis. Date: 8 August 1934 Extent: 2 pages Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from Noddfa, Wistaston, Crewe, responding to the magazine's request for feedback and suggestions with a detailed critique of the most recent issue and the New Britain Movement. NAF 6/3/2/21 Letter to the Editor, New Britain Weekly from Unknown Sender. Date: 8 August 1934 Extent: 1 page, 2 sides Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from Primrose Bank, Stackstead, Bacup, Lancashire, expressing support for the New Britain Movement and enclosing a £1 donation. Notes: Signature missing.
Date: 8 August 1934 Extent: 6 pages Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from Donin Court, Grays, Essex, responding to the news that the paper was to be published on a quarterly (not weekly) basis, and giving his opinion on why the paper had not been successful. He gives his "Diagnosis" and "Remedy" for the economic situation. NAF 6/3/2/23 Draft Letter to [W.R. McLaughlin] from the Editors, New Britain Weekly. Date: [August 1934] Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Draft manuscript response to the reader's suggestion of a practical programme of monetary reform, directing him to the Eleventh Hour Bulletin and announcing that New Britain Weekly would be published on a quarterly basis. NAF 6/3/2/24 Letter to the Editor, New Britain Weekly from Grace Keeble. Date: 9 August 1934 Extent: 1 page, 2 sides Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from Southover, Horley, Surrey. Keeble praises New Britain's good work, whilst urging the paper to help turn convictions into action. She suggests changes to the membership of the New Britain Movement. NAF 6/3/2/25 Postcard to the Editor, New Britain Weekly from Norah V. Walkbrook. Date: 9 August 1934 Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Postcard sent from 145 King Henry's Road, Swiss Cottage, London N.W.3., questioning the paper's position on monetary reform and the bourgeoisie. NAF 6/3/2/26 Letter to the Editors, New Britain Weekly from Clifford Lees. Date: 10 August 1934 Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Manuscript letter from Woodlands, Bradshaw, Halifax, originally enclosing a donation to New Britain's Emergency Appeal fund and expressing his support for the magazine. NAF 6/3/2/27 Anonymous Letter to the Editors, New Britain Weekly. Date: 10 August 1934 Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from Oxford, originally enclosing a donation to the New Britain Emergency Appeal and commenting on the best parts of the paper. NAF 6/3/2/28 Letter to the Editor, New Britain Weekly from John B. Ashe. Date: 10 August 1934 Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Typescript letter sent from Ennerdale, Rhiwbina, Cardiff, originally enclosing a donation to the New Britain Emergency Appeal and criticising recent changes in style and tone since the departure of C.B. Purdom as Editor. NAF 6/3/2/29 Letter to the Editors, New Britain Weekly from H.G. Tibbrett. Date: 10 August 1934 Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Typescript letter, sent from Lambeth Cottage, Fenlake Road, Harrowden, Bedford, correcting a mis-attributed quote from the paper's most recent issue and expressing support for the policy and aims of New Britain. NAF 6/3/2/30 Letter to the Editors, New Britain Weekly from A.G. Winship [?]. Date: 10 August 1934 Extent: 1 page, 2 sides Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from Westfields, Leek, Staffordshire, responding to an Emergency Appeal by the paper and offering feedback to the Editors on its style and content. He suggests that they appeal to the lower middle class reader, never mention Socialism and maintain a religious outlook. NAF 6/3/2/31 Letter to the Editors, New Britain Weekly from A.G. Winship [?]. Date: 11 August 1934 Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from Westfields, Leek, Staffordshire, asking the Editors not to publish a letter he had sent the previous day [see NAF 6/3/2/30]. NAF 6/3/2/32 Letter to the Editors, New Britain Weekly from Fred Wood. Date: 12 August [1934] Extent: 1 page, 3 sides Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from 61 Mayfield Road, Dagenham, Essex, praising the paper, criticising its style, suggesting a more spiritual outlook and asking for the return of some material he had previously submitted to the editors. NAF 6/3/2/33 Letter to the Editors, New Britain Weekly from A. Hanbury Sparrow. Date: 13 August 1934 Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from The Yeld, Church Stretton, Shropshire, originally enclosing a donation to the paper. NAF 6/3/2/34 Letter to the Editors, New Britain Weekly from Miss J.S. Shelton. Date: 13 August 1934 Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from 13 Craiglee Place, Edinburgh, originally enclosing a donation to the New Britain Emergency Appeal. NAF 6/3/2/35 Letter to the Editor, New Britain Weekly from A.F. Fremantle. Date: 13 August [1934] Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Typescript letter sent from Green Ways, Penn, Buckinghamshire, objecting to an article by Lester Hutchinson in which he accused the British East India Company of destroying the home weaving industry in India in order to create a market for British cloth. NAF 6/3/2/36 Letter to the Editors, New Britain Weekly from Miss A. F. Backett. Date: 14 August [1934] Extent: 1 page, 2 sides Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from 18 Palace Court Gardens, London N.10. Backett gives her views on the magazine and originally enclosed a donation. NAF 6/3/2/37 Letter to the Editors, New Britain Weekly from H.B. Worthington. Date: 15 August 1934 Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from Lincoln Hall House, Upper Bedford Place, London W.C., originally enclosing a donation to New Britain's Emergency Appeal fund. NAF 6/3/2/38 Letter to the Editors, New Britain Weekly from Sarah Lury. Date: 15 August 1934 Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Manuscript letter from 17 Jesmond Road, Clevedon, Somerset, originally enclosing a donation to New Britain's Emergency Appeal fund and expressing support for the magazine. NAF 6/3/2/39 Letter sent to Local Branches of the New Britain Movement from the Editors, New Britain Weekly. Date: 16 August 1934 Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Unsigned typescript covering letter on New Britain letterhead, originally accompanying lists of names and addresses of readers who had written to the paper but not yet been in contact with local groups. NAF 6/3/2/40 Letter to the Editor, New Britain Weekly from Leslie W. Carruthers. Date: 17 August 1934 Extent: 1 page, 2 sides Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from 7 Thyra Grove, Finchley, London N.12, responding to the Editor's plea for feedback from readers, criticising the paper for being isolationist and anti-democratic and offering his opinion of the Eleventh Hour Bulletin. NAF 6/3/2/41 Letter to the Editors, New Britain Weekly from Frederick Rathbone. Date: 19 August 1934 Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Typescript letter sent from Hegg Hill, Smarden, Kent, expressing his support for New Britain principles, such as National Credit Control [Social Credit] and the "National Dividend". Rathbone offers a critique of the magazine's latest issue. NAF 6/3/2/42 Letter to Clifford Lees from the Editors, New Britain Weekly. Date: 23 August 1934 Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Copy typescript letter sent to Lees, Woodlands, Bradshaw, Halifax, Yorkshire thanking him for a donation, and reporting on the New Britain's change to a quarterly publication, and changes to the content of the Eleventh Hour Emergency Bulletin. The editors discuss the issue of raising the price of the paper. NAF 6/3/2/43 Letter to H.B. Worthington from the Editors, New Britain Weekly. Date: 23 August 1934 Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Copy typescript letter sent to Worthington, thanking him for a donation, and reporting on the New Britain's change to a quarterly publication, and changes to the content of the Eleventh Hour Emergency Bulletin. NAF 6/3/2/44 Letter to W. Stewart Smith from the Editors, New Britain Weekly. Date: 23 August 1934 Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Copy typescript letter sent to Smith, in Aberdeenshire, thanking him for a donation, and reporting on the New Britain's change to a quarterly publication, and changes to the content of the Eleventh Hour Emergency Bulletin. NAF 6/3/2/45 Letter to Sarah J. Lury from the Editors, New Britain Weekly. Date: 23 August 1934 Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Copy typescript letter sent to Lury, 17 Jesmond Road, Clevedon, Somerset, thanking her for a donation, and reporting on the New Britain's change to a quarterly publication, and changes to the content of the Eleventh Hour Emergency Bulletin. NAF 6/3/2/46 Letter to H.B. Dempster from the Editors, New Britain Weekly. Date: 23 August 1934 Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Copy typescript letter sent to Dempster in Kenya, thanking him for a donation, and reporting on the New Britain's change to a quarterly publication, and changes to the content of the Eleventh Hour Emergency Bulletin. The Editors write that the New Britain Movement's Organisation Expert would be responding to Dempster's suggestion of establishing a branch in Kenya. NAF 6/3/2/47 Letter from the Editors, New Britain Weekly. Date: 23 August 1934 Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Copy typescript letter, unaddressed, thanking a reader for a donation, reporting on the New Britain's change to a quarterly publication, and changes to the content of the Eleventh Hour Emergency Bulletin. NAF 6/3/2/48 Letter to Miss A.F. Backett from the Editors, New Britain Weekly. Date: 23 August 1934 Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Copy typescript letter sent to Backett, 18 Palace Court Gardens, London N.10, thanking her for a donation, and reporting on the New Britain's change to a quarterly publication, and changes to the content of the Eleventh Hour Emergency Bulletin. The Editors respond to Backett's criticism of the New Britain and her suggestions for the Bulletin. NAF 6/3/2/49 Letter to the Editor, New Britain Weekly from Leslie W. Carruthers. Date: 23 August 1934 Extent: 2 pages, 4 sides Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from 7 Thyra Grove, Finchley, London N.12, arranging to meet with the Editor, discussing the New Britain philosophy, Fascism and "Corporativism", Democracy, Economic Reform and other issues central to New Britain's mission. NAF 6/3/2/50 Draft Letter from the Editors, New Britain Weekly. Date: [August 1934] Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Fragmentary draft manuscript response to a letter to the Editor, possibly from M. Alexander. NAF 6/3/2/51 Draft Letter from the Editors, New Britain Weekly. Date: [August 1934] Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Fragmentary draft manuscript response to a letter to the Editor, possibly from Henry J. James, concerning the Socialist State. NAF 6/3/2/52 Letter to the Editors, New Britain Weekly from Duncan Leviland [?]. Date: [August 1934] Extent: 3 pages, 6 sides Scope and content: Manuscript letter, responding to a plea for feedback from readers, and supporting the opinions published in a letter to the Editor by J.T. Murphy. He writes about Christianity and the New Britain Movement, Fascism, the British people, the style of the paper and its contributors. NAF 6/3/2/53 Letter to the Editor, New Britain Weekly from Paul G. Mandahl. Date: [August 1934] Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Manuscript letter responding to an article, 'This week in the Commonwealth' with comments on the paper's approach to Irish politics. NAF 6/3/2/54 Letter to "John" [John Harker?] from Niall MacDermot. Date: [August 1934?] Extent: 2 pages, 4 sides Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from 23 Rue d'Alger, Compiegne, Oise, discussing distributing copies of the Eleventh Hour Bulletin in France and naming F.E. Pearce, Mrs. Joyce Langdale, and C.K. Moore as willing to try and distribute it in England. NAF 6/3/2/55 Anonymous Letter to the Editors, New Britain Weekly. Date: [August 1934] Extent: 2 pages Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from South Place, Daventry, arguing that education was central to achieving the political reforms advocated by New Britain. NAF 6/3/2/56 Letter to the Editor, New Britain Weekly from John W. Dorling. Date: [August 1934] Extent: 1 page Scope and content: Typescript letter sent from The Manse, Lapford, Devon, originally accompanying an article submitted for consideration entitled "August the Fourth 1914 - Twenty Years After". NAF 6/3/3 File. "Otakar Březina", Translated Works.Date: c1930s Extent: 18 items Scope and content: Printed and typescript poems and prose, translated into English from Czech by Paul Selver, seemingly for publication in the New Britain Weekly.
NAF 6/3/4 Scrapbook of New Britain articles.Date: November 1937 Extent: 1 volume Scope and content: Collected articles by Valerie Cooper from the "New Physical Fitness" series, published in New Britain in 1933. Includes some underlining. Notes: Oversize. NAF 6/3/5 "Index of Contributors to Eleventh Hour."Date: [c1970s] Extent: 2 index card boxes Scope and content: Handwritten, alphabetically arranged card index of contributors to the magazine.
NAF 6/3/6 "Index of Contributors to New Britain."Date: [c1970s] Extent: 1 index card box Scope and content: Handwritten, alphabetically arranged card index of contributors to the magazine.
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