The New Atlantis Foundation Dimitrije Mitrinović Archive: Catalogue



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NAF 3/9 Papers of Orion Playfair.


Date: 1936 - 1941

Extent: 1 file

Scope and content: Notes, letters and other documents created by Playfair. Material relates to the activities and teachings of Dimitrije Mitrinović in the late 1930s.

Language of material: English; French.


NAF 3/9/1 File. "O.S.P." Notes by Orion Playfair.


Date: 1936 - 1941

Extent: 3 sub-folders

Scope and content: Manuscript notes and typescript documents. Subjects include Guild Socialism, British history, meditation, Communism, Syndicalism, philosophy, Third Force, the Jewish people, and Dimitrije Mitrinović's vision for the Senate Republic, the Senate of Youth, Slavic culture and nations and international relations. Includes press cutting, a diary-type document recording Playfair's activities with the group around Mitrinović in 1938 - 1939, and a hand drawn, coloured map of Europe. Includes 10 letters from Playfair to Mitrinović and others.

Language of material: English; French.


NAF 3/10 Papers relating to John Cowper Powys.


Date: 1952 -1982

Extent: 2 files

Scope and content: Correspondence between Powys and Phyllis Playter with Dimitrije Mitrinović and his Circle.

Notes: See also NAF 10/2/31 for material on Powys collected by the New Atlantis Foundation.


NAF 3/10/1 “John Cowper Powys”, Letters from Powys and Phyllis Playter to Dimitrije Mitrinović and his Circle.


Date: 31 January 1953 - 20 August 1955

Extent: 27 items

Scope and content: Manuscript letters including Powys' thanks for a gift of a walking stick, admiration of Mitrinović's ideas, refusal of the Presidency of the New Europe Group, introducing the Group to Mrs. Phyllis Playter, the death of Cecil Eastgate, and New Atlantis Foundation events and publications. Addressees include Winifred Gordon Fraser, Harry Rutherford and Ellen Mayne.

NAF 3/10/2 “John Cowper Powys”, Correspondence between Powys and Phyllis Playter with Dimitrije Mitrinović and his Circle.


Date: 26 May 1952 - 1982

Extent: 32 items

Scope and content: Manuscript and typescript letters, mostly dating between 1952 -1956. Correspondents and addressees include Harry Rutherford [?], Powys, Playter, Ellen Mayne and G. Wilson Knight. Subject matter includes the establishment, purpose, activities and publications of the New Atlantis Foundation, Mitrinović's philosophy and teachings, the death of Powys' brother, Powys' work, Anthropo-Femina of the New Atlantis, the New Europe Group, Ditchling and the Ditchling Press. Includes a news cutting of Playter's obituary (1982), a discussion of the New Atlantis symbol and some typescript transcriptions of Powys' manuscript letters.

Access conditions: File includes material with third party copyright.


NAF 3/11 Harry Rutherford Papers.


Date: ?1937 -c1980

Extent: 3 files

Scope and content: Notes by Rutherford, apparently recording the teachings of Dimitrije Mitrinović, and draft articles.

Notes: See also NAF 2/2/4, NAF 3/3/8 and NAF 9/9.


NAF 3/11/1 “H.C.R. misc.”, Harry Rutherford Notes.


Date: ?1937 - c1980

Extent: 11 sub-sections

Scope and content: Typed and manuscript notes by Harry Rutherford, apparently recording the teachings of Dimitrije Mitrinović, and filed alphabetically by subject. Includes a handwritten index (by Violet MacDermot) and some photocopied material. Subject matter includes economic reform, peace, "Anthropo-Eirenikon", Senate, "Anthropy and Anthropics", war ["Bellicism"], "Brazil", Christianity, "Entelechy", "Eukronia", culture, gnosis, Erich Gutkind, philosophy, science, "The Three Revelations", Vladimir Solovyov and Rudolf Steiner.

NAF 3/11/2 Notebook of Harry Rutherford.


Date: c1960s -1970s

Extent: 1 volume

Scope and content: Notebook with manuscript notes, on the purpose of the New Atlantis Foundation and the teachings of Dimitrije Mitrinović.

NAF 3/11/3 Draft Articles and Notes by Harry Rutherford.


Date: 1972 -1976

Extent: 27 items

Scope and content: Manuscript articles and notes, many of which seem to relate to Rutherford's book, The Ideas of Dimitrije Mitrinović: Selected Writings. Subject matter includes Providence and Destiny, Marxism, Democracy, Life with Dimitrije Mitrinović, his reputation and his teachings, Alan Watts' philosophy and autobiography, "Brazil" and group work, intentional communities/communes, leadership and organisation, amongst other topics.

NAF 3/12 Papers of Eileen Ryan.


Date: ?1941 - ?1962

Extent: 1 file

Scope and content: Loose manuscript notes recording the teachings of Dimitrije Mitrinović.

NAF 3/12/1 Notes by Eileen Ryan.


Date: ?1941 - ?1962

Extent: 5 bundles

Scope and content: Bundles labelled "Constitution and Personal", "Ryan Notes", "Write-Ups", "Important". Loose manuscript notes recording the teachings of Dimitrije Mitrinović. Subject matter includes the New Atlantis, the Senate, Astrology, Europe and the New Europe Group, Axiology, the Cactus League, group members and their roles, and Marxism amongst other areas.

NAF 3/13 Papers of Jessrasingh Seesodia.


Date: 1911 -1927

Extent: 2 files

Scope and content: Letters, notes, bills and other papers, many of which relate to Seesodia's relationship with Dimitrije Mitrinović.

Language of material: English; Hindi

Notes: See also NAF 1/7/8, NAF 10/2/17 - NAF 10/2/21, and NAF 11/3/2 - NAF 11/3/3.

NAF 3/13/1 "Seesodia -1927", Papers of Jessrasingh Seesodia.


Date: 1912 -1927

Extent: 9 items

Scope and content: Typescript and manuscript letters, papers and bills, recording that Dimitrije Mitrinović paid rent on Seesodia's flat in 1927 and for his funeral in 1926. Includes a black and white studio portrait photograph by W.G. Parker of Seesodia and another Indian man, and a horoscope for Seesodia by E.H. Barley.

Language of material: English; Hindi


NAF 3/13/2 File. “Seesodia Personal Letters”. Correspondence of Thakur Jessrasingh Seesodia.


Date: 1911 - 1922

Extent: 14 items

Scope and content: Typescript unsigned letters to the Editor of the Occult Review and Sports Department, Evening News, typescript letters to Kumar Shri [Seesodia] from F.H. Brown. Includes manuscript notes on Astrology and the Occult and incomplete letters from D.M. Burch.



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