The New Atlantis Foundation Dimitrije Mitrinovic Archive Catalogue

NAF 9/7 Papers Concerning Publications by, and Research on, Dimitrije Mitrinović and his Circle.

Date: 1953 - 1992

Extent: 6 files

Scope and content: Includes correspondence with researchers, bibliographies of works by/about Dimitrije Mitrinović, and articles about Mitrinović or relating to his interests.

Language of material: English; Serbo-Croat

NAF 9/7/1 Bibliographies of Works by and About Dimitrije Mitrinović.

Date: ?1970 -1975

Extent: 15 items

Scope and content: Includes typescript bibliography, photocopies of articles, manuscript and typescript lists of articles and poems. Also letters to Predrag Palavestra and Professor Elizabeth Hill from H.C. Rutherford, discussing Palavestra's publication of a biography of Mitrinović in Yugoslavia.

Language of material: English; Serbo-Croat (Roman Script)

Notes: See NAF 1/9/1 - NAF 1/9/4 and NAF 9/1/7 - NAF 9/1/9 for further material on Palavestra.

NAF 9/7/2 File. "Palavestra's Book", Biography of Dimitrije Mitrinović.

Date: ?1953 - ?1977

Extent: 2 items

Scope and content: Photocopy typescript of critique of final chapter of Dogma i Utopija Dimitrija Mitrinovića, by Predrag Palavestra (Beograd: Slovo ljubve, 1977), by the Trustees of the New Atlantis Foundation. File also contains typescript dissertation ‘Slika Ranog Feudalnog Drustva u Beowulfu’ by Gordana Mitrinović.

Language of material: English; Serbo-Croat

Notes: See NAF 9/1/7 - NAF 9/1/9 for further material on Palavestra.

NAF 9/7/3 Essay, "Critique of the last chapter of Dr. Predrag Palavestra's book, Dogma I Utopija Dimitrija Mitrinovića."

Date: ?1977

Extent: 73 pages

Scope and content: Photocopied typescript critique, written by the Trustees of the New Atlantis Foundation.

Notes: See NAF 9/1/7 - NAF 9/1/9 for further material on Palavestra.

NAF 9/7/4 Harry Rutherford File on Henry LeRoy Finch.

Date: 1982 - 1983

Extent: 6 items

Scope and content: Includes manuscript letter from Finch to Rutherford and copy typescript letter from Rutherford to Finch. Articles by Finch including typescript copy of "The Prophetic Teaching of Mitrinović in the Light of Recent Philosophy", "Heidegger, Wittgenstein and the End of Philosophy", "Simone Weil and the Jews", and a printed copy of 'Wittgenstein's Long Journey: Logical Ideal to Human Norm', International Philosophical Quarterly vol 23, no1, issue 89 (March 1983).

NAF 9/7/5 Harry Rutherford Correspondence File, "Muriel W-J [Muriel Ward-Jackson], Roy Finch, Andrew Rigby".

Date: 1974 -1991

Extent: 214 items

Scope and content: Manuscript, typescript letters between H.C. Rutherford, to Muriel Ward-Jackson (1987-1991), Henry LeRoy Finch (1974-1987), and Andrew Rigby (1982-1991), with accompanying notes and articles. Includes photocopy from The John Lewis Partnership Gazette (1991) and other publications. Correspondence with Ward-Jackson concerns her proposed book on the New Britain Movement, and includes some of her notes and a précis of the work. Correspondence with Finch is chiefly concerned with the philosophy of Dimitrije Mitrinović and includes one letter with several enclosed photocopies of notes and letters from others concerning Mitrinović and Erich Gutkind. Includes a corrected draft of an article, "The Prophetic Teachig [sic] of Mitrinovic [sic] in the Light of Recent Philosophy" and manuscript biographical sketch of Finch. Correspondence with Rigby discusses Rigby's biography of Mitrinović, pacifist communities, New Atlantis Foundation conferences and various articles.

Access conditions: Includes material with third party copyrights.

Notes: See also NAF 9/8 for material on Andrew Rigby and his biography of Mitrinović.

NAF 9/7/6 Letter to Mrs. Shillan from Paul Stanjer.

Date: 14 April 1992

Extent: 2 pages

Scope and content: Typescript letter with enclosed photocopy from Goetheanum News of a report of the meeting “An anthroposophical approach to the Yugoslav problem”. Stanjer notes the commonalities in the philosophies of Dimitrije Mitrinović and Rudolf Steiner, suggesting that he might research the connections between them using the New Atlantis Foundation's archive.

NAF 9/8 Notes and Drafts for a Biography of Dimitrije Mitrinović by Andrew Rigby.

Date: 1976 - 1982

Extent: 4 files

Scope and content: Typescript, manuscript and word-processed documents relating to the production of Initiation and Initiative: An Exploration of the Life and Ideas of Dimitrije Mitrinovi

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Notes: See also NAF 9/7/5 and Andrew Rigby Archive GB 0532 Cwl ARC.

NAF 9/8/1 File, "Correspondence Andrew Rigby", Letters between Harry Rutherford and Rigby.

Date: 1976 -1982

Extent: 235 items

Scope and content: Manuscript, typescript and photocopied letters, notes, draft chapters of books, reminiscences and commentaries. Includes letters concerning Rigby's biography of Dimitrije Mitrinović, Initiation and Initiative. An Exploration of the Life and Ideas of Dimitrije Mitrinovic (East European Monographs), 1984, as well as drafts and commentaries on drafts. Also includes Rutherford's commentaries and explanations of the ideas, life, activities, language, beliefs and network of Mitrinović. Includes transcriptions of Rigby's discussions with Kenneth Draege and Rutherford, Grace Rutherford, David Shillan, Violet MacDermot, and Ellen Mayne.

NAF 9/8/2 “Andrew Rigby Book”, Draft of Initiation and Initiative: An Exploration of the Life and Ideas of Dimitrije Mitrinović.

Date: ?1977

Extent: 11 items

Scope and content: Photocopy typescript of corrected drafts for chapters of Rigby's book. Includes annotations referring to letters sent in 1977, comments and corrections.

NAF 9/8/3 Biographical Notes on Gustav Landauer.

Date: [c1980]

Extent: 7 pages

Scope and content: Photocopied document, originally contained in an envelope addressed to Andrew Rigby.

NAF 9/8/4 "Andrew Book", Draft of Initiation and Initiative: An Exploration of the Life and Ideas of Dimitrije Mitrinović by Andrew Rigby.

Date: 1980 -1981

Extent: 8 sub-folders

Scope and content: Photocopied typescript and word-processed corrected and annotated drafts. Also includes a copy typescript letter from H.C. Rutherford to Dr. J.W. Burton, press cutting of a letter to the Editor from Burton.