NAF 5/3 Documents and Letters, including New Europe Group Statements

NAF 5/3 Documents and Letters, including New Europe Group Statements.

Extent: 18 folders and 1 item

Scope and content: Typescript and manuscript letters and documents, arranged and indexed by the New Atlantis Foundation by correspondent and/or organisation, as follows: Cecil Eastgate, Dorothy [Wrugh?], Valerie Cooper, Winifred Gordon Fraser, Erich Gutkind, House of Culture League, Ellen Mayne, Money, L.R. Twentyman, Naoum Glasberg, L’Ordre Nouveau, Rosicrucian Lodge, David Shillan, Watson Thomson, Reginald Wrugh, and "Yoga of Friendship."

NAF 5/3/1 File. "A", Cecil Eastgate and "Christianity", Cecil Eastgate Papers.

Extent: 5 documents; 38 letters

Scope and content: Typescript and manuscript letters and documents, including chart of philosophical ideas, material relating to conferences, Le Play Society, notes on financial matters, a poem and a philosophical dialogue. Letters mainly concern the core values of the New Europe Group, and were mostly sent to those making enquiries about the Group in its early years.

Notes: Letters are catalogued individually. See NAF 5/3/1/1- NAF 5/3/1/38 .

Date: [c1940s - 1950s]

Extent: 8 pages

Scope and content: Typescript copy of letter, entitled "Conversion of England", with attached document "Initiative of Woman. Investigations" by Winifred Gordon Fraser.

Date: [?1932]

Extent: 3 pages, 5 sides

Scope and content: Manuscript letter on New Europe letterhead, unsigned. Concerns personal development, the experiment and activities of the New Europe Group.

Date: 27 January 1932

Extent: 1 page, 2 sides

Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from Hollycombe, Englefield Green, Surrey. Darling discusses the issue of the future direction of the New Europe Group and his book, Monetary Leadership.

Date: 15 January 1932

Extent: 3 pages, 4 sides

Scope and content: Typescript letter on New Europe letterhead, unsigned, discussing the proliferation of ideas around economic and political reforms, the threat of war and the vision of the New Europe Group.

Notes: Two copies.

NAF 5/3/1/5 Letter to Mrs. Leighton from the New Europe Group.

Date: 28 June 1932

Extent: 2 pages

Scope and content: Typescript letter sent on behalf of the New Europe Group, discussing the beliefs of the Group and its lectures.

Date: 28 June 1932

Extent: 2 pages

Scope and content: Typescript letter sent on behalf of the New Europe Group, discussing the beliefs of the Group and its lecture series.

Date: 21 July 1932

Extent: 1 page

Scope and content: Typescript letter sent by the N.E.G., discussing the Group's "proposals for action" and priority of promoting monetary reform.

Date: 3 August 1932

Extent: 2 pages

Scope and content: Typescript letter giving information about the New Europe Group, the New Britain Movement and the Eleventh Hour Movement. Includes the Group's views on propaganda.

Date: [August 1932]

Extent: 1 page

Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from Trinity Hall, Buck Street, London N.W.5, asking for information on the "aims and objects" of the New Europe Group.

Date: 3 August 1932

Extent: 2 pages

Scope and content: Typescript letter giving information about the New Europe Group, the New Britain Movement and the Eleventh Hour Movement.

Date: 12 August 1932

Extent: 3 pages

Scope and content: Typescript letter giving information about the New Europe Group, its philosophy, and the Eleventh Hour Movement.

Date: 22 July 1932

Extent: 1 page

Scope and content: Typescript letter sent from 42/7 Shawwakah, Baghdad, asking for information on the programme of the New Europe Group.

Date: 12 August 1932

Extent: 3 pages

Scope and content: Typescript letter giving information about the New Europe Group, its philosophy, and the Eleventh Hour Movement.

Date: 30 July 1932

Extent: 1 page

Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent c/o R.O.C. Baghdad, Iraq, asking for information on the New Europe Group.

Date: 16 September 1932

Extent: 3 pages

Scope and content: Typescript letter giving information about the New Europe Group, its philosophy, aims and how it grew out of the Adler Society, the Eleventh Hour Movement and the forthcoming publication of the New Britain Quarterly.

Date: 24 October 1932

Extent: 3 pages

Scope and content: Typescript letter discussing the manifesto of the New Europe Group, the state of Europe, the role of England in Europe and the N.E.G.'s proposed changes to the political system.

Date: 12 November 1932

Extent: 1 page

Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from 18 Sutcliffe Cres., Golders Green, London, N.W.11, asking for details of the New Europe Group.

Date: 24 October 1932

Extent: 3 pages

Scope and content: Typescript letter discussing arrangements for attending a lecture and the values and vision of the New Europe Group.

Date: 28 October 1932

Extent: 3 pages

Scope and content: Copy typescript letter outlining the values and vision of the New Europe Group.

Date: 31 October 1932

Extent: 1 page

Scope and content: Copy typescript letter declining Eisler's offer to address the New Europe Group, Eleventh Hour or Adler Society and explaining that the Group unable to help him get his book reviewed in the press.

Date: 29 October 1932

Extent: 1 page, 2 sides

Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from Hammonds, Checkendon, Reading, offering to waive his fee for addressing the New Europe Group, if they could collect orders for his book on monetary reform. He asks for help in getting A.R. Orage and Brenton to review the book.

Date: [October 1932]

Extent: 1 page, 2 sides

Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from Hammonds, Checkendon, Reading, offering to lecture to the Adler Society or New Europe Group.

Date: 26 October 1932

Extent: 1 page

Scope and content: Copy typescript letter explaining that the Group would not be able to afford Eisler's lecture fee.

Date: 16 October 1932

Extent: 1 page

Scope and content: Copy typescript letter originally enclosing a cheque to cover Eisler's expenses relating to his lecture to the New Europe Group.

Date: 1 November 1932

Extent: 3 pages

Scope and content: Copy typescript letter sent in response to an enquiry for information about the New Europe Group.

Date: 8 November 1932

Extent: 3 pages

Scope and content: Copy typescript letter sent in response to an enquiry for information about the New Europe Group.

Date: 9 November 1932

Extent: 3 pages

Scope and content: Copy typescript letter sent in response to an enquiry for information about the New Europe Group.

Date: 7 November 1932

Extent: 1 page, 2 sides

Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from 16 Park Mansions, Knightsbridge, London asking to be sent details of forthcoming New Europe Group lectures.

Date: 10 November 1932

Extent: 3 pages

Scope and content: Copy typescript letter sent in response to an enquiry for information about the New Europe Group.

Date: 5 November 1932

Extent: 1 page

Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from 5 Portgower Place, Edinburgh, expressing her interest in the New Europe Group and asking whether they had associates in Scotland.

Date: 11 November 1932

Extent: 3 pages

Scope and content: Copy typescript letter sent in response to an enquiry for information about the New Europe Group.

Date: 15 November 1932

Extent: 2 pages

Scope and content: Copy typescript letter with information about the New Europe Group, including the Group's programme for societal change, aims and critique of politics.

Date: 11 November 1932

Extent: 1 page

Scope and content: Copy typescript letter reminding Poliakoff of a planned visit to Valerie Cooper's studio and comments on a recent discussion.

Date: 23 November 1932

Extent: 2 pages

Scope and content: Copy typescript letter publicising and explaining the work and vision of the New Europe Group and Eleventh Hour Group.

Date: 13 January 1933

Extent: 2 pages

Scope and content: Copy typescript letter publicising and explaining the work and beliefs of the New Europe Group and New Britain Group.

Date: 13 January 1933

Extent: 1 page

Scope and content: Copy typescript letter sent in response to an enquiry for information about the New Europe Group.

Date: 31 January 1933

Extent: 2 pages

Scope and content: Copy typescript letter sent in response to an enquiry for information about the New Europe Group, giving details of the Groups' values, vision and the distinction between New Europe and New Britain.

Date: 7 March 1933

Extent: 1 page

Scope and content: Copy typescript letter sent in response to an enquiry for information about the New Europe Group. The letter explains the Group's desire for local branches to form across the country to study "the cause of war, of poverty, and of the evils of competition."

NAF 5/3/2 File. "B", Papers on Monetary Reform and Notebook of Dorothy Wrugh [?].

Date: 30 November 1950 - 5 January 1951

Extent: 3 items

Scope and content: Typescript lecture by Gladys Bing entitled "Monetary Reform and the Leviathan State", delivered to the New Europe Group in November 1950 and accompanied by a letter from "Jack" [Jack Murphy?] to Winifred Gordon Fraser, comprising a critique of Bing's ideas. Notebook with manuscript, pencil notes (some in shorthand), seemingly of New Europe Group lectures.

NAF 5/3/3 File. "C", Papers of Valerie Cooper.

Date: 12 April 1947 - ?1948

Extent: 3 items

Scope and content: Typescript letter from H. Leo Kohlberg to Cooper, discussing news of Jane and Ben [unidentified], Erich Gutkind, Watson Thomson, Ivan Meštrović, Dimitrije Mitrinović's work with his group, Anglo-American relations and America's political situation. Manuscript notes on Velizar Godjevać, accompanying a typescript article by Godjevać entitled 'The Problem of Musical Notation'.

Access conditions: Restricted Access in accordance with the Data Protection Act (1998).

Access status: Restricted.

NAF 5/3/4 File. "D". Papers of Cecil Eastgate.

Date: c1940s

Extent: 1 page

Scope and content: Typescript poem, presumably by Eastgate, entitled "The Life Spirit: The Death Form: God: World, and Nature". An annotation mentions Erich Gutkind.

NAF 5/3/5 File, "E.F.", Papers of Winifred Gordon Fraser.

Date: 18 November 1931 - 1942

Extent: 8 items

Scope and content: Typescript excerpt from The Absolute Collective by Erich Gutkind. Typescript letter from the New Europe Group to Mrs. Albert Law, explaining the relationships between the New Britain Movement, Eleventh Hour and New Europe Groups, and the focus of each. Manuscript letter from Gordon Fraser to "Binks" [?], discussing the state of Britain, her role as Secretary of the New Europe Group and its work, and Dimitrije Mitrinović. Includes several typescript letters from Norman Angell, regarding lecturing to the New Europe Group.

NAF 5/3/6 File. "G", Papers concerning Erich Gutkind.

Date: 16 November 1941

Extent: 3 items

Scope and content: Typescript document produced for the "New Atlantis School" on The Absolute Collective by Erich Gutkind. Typescript documents concerning Mankind and Nature.

NAF 5/3/7 File. "H", Papers of the House of Culture League and European Cultural Society.

Date: 10 December 1937, c1951

Extent: 3 items

Scope and content: Copy typescript letter sent from the "Promoting Committee" of the "European Cultural Society", inviting the recipient to take part, as well as a document headed "A Brief Introduction of the European Cultural Society". Typescript document by S.G. Hobson outlining the purpose, composition, duties and proposed activities of the House of Culture League.

NAF 5/3/8 File, "I.J.", New Europe Group Correspondence.

Date: 13 November 1931 - 1947

Extent: 123 items

Scope and content: Papers mostly dating from 1931- 1933, as the New Europe Group was emerging. Printed programme for the Third International Significal Summer Conference. Manuscript letters from Patrick Geddes, discussing arrangements for the fledgling New Europe Group and his optimism about the prospect of societal change. Correspondence between Winifred Gordon Fraser and Harry Rutherford and Lady Lilian Geddes, concerning the Bureau of Social Survey, the magazine New Atlantis, students at Montpellier and a Commemoration Evening held in honour of Patrick Geddes by the N.E.G. Correspondence between the N.E.G. and A.G. Pape, F. McEachran, Commander J.M. Kenworthy, Arthur Kitson, Roland Kenney (Foreign Office), John Gould Fletcher, Helen Fraser, Amelia Defries, Arthur Bullock, Vernon Bartlett, Orion Playfair, Gerald Heard and Dr. C. de Lisle Burns. Includes an anonymous manuscript letter criticising the N.E.G. (July 1932) and a pamphlet entitled Anarchy by E. Malatesta (London: 1920).

Language of material: English; French

NAF 5/3/9 File. "KL", Papers of Ellen Mayne.

Date: ?1941 - 1945

Extent: 2 items

Scope and content: Manuscript notes on Anthropo-Femina of the New Atlantis, including a list of members. Manuscript notes on "Womens World 1945".

NAF 5/3/10 File, "M", Papers on Money and Economics.

Date: 1885 - 1956

Extent: 15 items

Scope and content: Manuscript notes on philosophy, published pamphlet An Analysis of the Principles of Economics (Part I) by Patrick Geddes, papers relating to New Europe Group lectures and the House of Industry League, and other material on Economic topics. Includes articles and notes by Lord Northbourne, S.G. Hobson, Gladys Bing, Niall MacDermot, Leo Kohlberg,

NAF 5/3/11 File, "Mc", Papers of Ralph Twentyman.

Date: ?1936 - c1940

Extent: 4 items.

Scope and content: Typescript notes on "The Psychology of Good Luck" (2 copies). Articles re-printed from the Cambridge University Medical Society Magazine, vol. XIV, no.1 and no.3 entitled "For Medicine: Functional Responsibility or Splendid Isolation?" and "The Future of Medicine".

NAF 5/3/12 File, "N.O.", Papers of Naoum Glasberg.

Date: c1950

Extent: 1 item

Scope and content: Typescript article on peace, World War and social, political and economic change.

NAF 5/3/13 File, "PQ", Papers on L'Ordre Nouveau.

Date: c1935

Extent: 3 items

Scope and content: Notes in the handwriting of Winifred Gordon Fraser on L'Ordre Nouveau and its members. Typescript document, "Constitution of Aims of "Esprit". Typescript article on the League of Nations by Robert Aron.

NAF 5/3/14 File, "R", Papers of the Rosicrucian Lodge from Rudolf Steiner.

Date: 1945 - 1946

Extent: 8 items

Scope and content: Typescript documents including procedures for meetings, a letter, "Charter and Statement of Aims", Code of Etiquette, "Preliminary Charter for the Comenius Club", and a manuscript list of members.

NAF 5/3/15 File. "S", Papers of David Shillan.

Date: 1940 - 1980

Extent: 42 items

Scope and content: Typescript, printed and manuscript documents. Includes press cuttings, notes on the teachings of Dimitrije Mitrinović and Shillan's own thoughts on issues including European Federation and Devolution. Includes notes on and records of New Europe events, a typescript proposal for a European Cultural Centre, a report on a proposed University of Europe, report on a lunch with P. Jacob (French European Federalist) and an article by Shillan entitled "From Pure Chemistry to Geographical Sociology: The Story of Frederick Soddy." Includes some of Shillan's correspondence with Serbian researchers, a librarian at the University of Belgrade, J.F.C. Fuller, C.P. Rodocanachi, Bill Goble.

Language of material: English; French

NAF 5/3/16 File "TU", Papers concerning Watson Thomson.

Date: 21 June 1976 -19 July 1976

Extent: 2 items

Scope and content: Manuscript letter from Goldie Penny to Ellen Mayne, thanking the New Atlantis Foundation for their hospitality and assistance with her husband, Harry Penny's, research. Copy typescript letter sent in reply, discussing Watson Thomson.

NAF 5/3/17 File, "VW", Papers of Reginald Wrugh.

Date: February 1946 - December 1950

Extent: 2 items

Scope and content: Notebook with manuscript notes recorded at Worthing, outlining the plans of Dimitrije Mitrinović for his group, roles of various group members and the "Covenant" of the group. Typescript letter from the Le Play Society to Wrugh, inviting him and other members of the New Europe Group to meet to discuss issues of mutual interest.

NAF 5/3/18 File, "XYZ", Lectures on Yoga and Personal Development.

Date: c1930s - c1950s

Extent: 1 item

Scope and content: Typescript lectures, "The Discipline of Communion in Sophia or the Yoga of Human Relations".

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