Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1924-1971, n.d.

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Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1924-1971, n.d.

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Carl Zigrosser was a follower of the popular English psychologist (and follower of Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff) A. R. Orage. Included in this correspondence with Carl Zigrosser and Florence King are clippings and advertisements, essays by and about Orage, a circular letter from Gurdjieff on the death of Orage, and an obituary for Orage. Topics covered in Orage's letters to Zigrosser and King include notices about meetings and lectures, monetary gifts to Gurdjieff and his Institute, the well-being of the Gurdjieff circles in England and America, advice about acting on Orage's principles, and information about the National Social Credit Association. Copies of letters from Zigrosser to Orage ask for advice and help with defining some of the terms used by Orage and Gurdjieff. There are also pages of notes made by Zigrosser. Also included in the folders ar letters from Jessie Dwight Orage and Gorham Munson, an essay by Olgivanna Wright about Katherine Mansfield, announcements for The New English Weekly, and a photograph of Orage by Ansel Adams.

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King, Florence

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Munson, Gorham Bert, 1896-1969

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Gorham Munson was associated with New Democracy. He and Carl Zigrosser shared interests in A. R. Orage, progressive education and new economic theory, particularly the Social Credit Movement. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1919-1942. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 213466243 ...

Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984

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Ansel Adams, American photographer, was born February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, California. He was tutored privately at home where he studied piano, San Francisco, from 1914 to 1927, then studied photography with the photofinisher Frank Dittman, in San Francisco, in 1916 and 1917. He married Virginia Best in 1928, and had two children, Michael and Anne. Adams began his career as a photographer, 1927, and worked as a commercial photographer, from 1930 to 1960. He was a photography correspond...

Orage, A.R. (Alfred Richard), 1873-1934

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Alfred Orage was born at Dacre, near Bradford in 1873, but following the death of his father, the family moved to Fenstanton in Huntingdonshire. He became a pupil teacher at the village school and then attended a teachers' training college at Culham, Oxfordshire. In 1893 he became an elementary school teacher in Leeds and began to develop wider interests, particularly in literature and socialism, co-founding the Leeds Art Club in 1900. He moved to London in 1906 as a freelance journalist and bou...

Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923

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Katherine Mansfield was born in New Zealand, and also lived in England. During her Bohemian and rather brief life, she made significant contributions to the art of short story writing as a major 20th century writer. Her fiction is characterized by crisp metaphorical prose, a graceful yet inescapable sense of irony, and, above all, a unique and irresistible degree of observation. From the description of Katherine Mansfield letters, 1913. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). Worl...

Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch, 1872-1949

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Orage, Jessie Dwight.

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National Social Credit Association.

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