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A new item has been added to the GHS Archive: Letters from Sri Anirvan to Lizelle Reymond. This 296 page PDF document resides in the newly created Lizelle Reymond Archive.

From the description:

Lizelle Reymond (1899-1994) is known in Fourth Way circles for her publication of To Live Within: A Woman’s Spiritual Pilgrimage in a Himalayan Hermitage, Rudra Press, 1971.

According to her biography, as given in the foreword to the 1995 edition, she was sent back to the West from India to seek out Gurdjieff groups by her teacher of many years, Shri Anirvan. The documents in this digital file are scanned copies of letters (themselves copies) from Shri Anirvan to Lizelle Reymond beginning in 1949 and ending in 1976.

The letters given by Lizelle Reymond to Barbara Rosenthal, were in turn passed on to various individuals including Dr. Keith Buzzell who died in 2018. Barbara Rosenthal died on March 31st, 2020. According to Barbara, all the markings in the letters are Lizelle’s and the letters were given to Barbara with the statement “Here you are Darling. Do with them what you wish.”

In the archiving of Dr. Buzzell’s personal papers the decision was made to scan these letters and make them available to anyone that would find them of historical interest. We see no reason for the letters not to be shared according to individuals’ interests.

—Harry Bennett

Active members are encouraged to access the Letters from Sri Anirvan to Lizelle Reymond by logging in here.

If you are not yet a member, please visit the Membership page to apply.

This collection is from the personal archives of Peter Colgrove, a friend of Olga de Hartmann. He worked with Mme. de Hartmann, Tom Daly, and Tom Forman for many years. There are photographs of Mme. de Hartmann on their travels together and at Nambe, near Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Some of the photographs that Peter Colgrove had in his possession belonged to Mme. de Hartmann before she met him.  Photographs of Thomas and Olga de Hartmann, Mme. de Hartmann’s family, Mme. Ouspensky, Mme. de Salzmann, William Segal, and others are included in the collection. The collection was donated by Jan Jarvis who received the materials from Elizabeth St. Lawrence. Some photographs of the Prieuré are also included.

Peter Colgrove, Lord Pentland (Henry John Sinclair) and Olga de Hartmann in 1977.

Active members are encouraged to visit the Peter Colgrove – Olga de Hartmann collection by logging in here.

If you are not yet a member, please visit the Membership page to apply.

Saturday Evenings at Mendham

Conversations with Madame Ouspensky

Compiled and edited by
Dorothy Darlington

Gurdjieff Heritage Society

Copyright 2021 by D. Darlington and C. Smith

Available wherever books are sold, including Amazon and the following independent booksellers:

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This book provides entirely new source material for the Gurdjieff Work. It is an authentic transcription of talks given by Madame Ouspensky to her group at Mendham, distilled from notes taken by her pupils at the time.

Students of Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way know little about Madame Ouspensky’s thought or teaching because she left no written body of work-although some of her sayings were recalled by Robert de Ropp in his short account of his time with her. That has been virtually the only material extant. Until now.

Now, an authentic transcription of talks given by Madame Ouspensky to her group at Mendham is published here by the Gurdjieff Heritage Society. The talks, distilled from pupils notes, have been painstakingly compiled and edited by the late Dorothy Darlington who spent years with Madame and Mr Ouspensky and who had a special affinity with Madame.

COPYRIGHT 2021 by D. Darlington and C. Smith
The authors assert their moral rights in the work. Originally published as an ebook by Buzzword Books, Australia, 2018 ISBN: 978-1-7368823-0-6
Design by David Clark Perry. All rights reserved.
Gurdjieff Heritage Society, Inc.

VIEW SAMPLE HERE

Gurdjieff Heritage Society is focused on preserving source material from near and first generation students of Mr. Gurdjieff. We frequently receive offers of new collections and do our best with limited resources to add suitable material to the archive and make new documents and collections available to members.

In this direction we are sharing a list of documents recently activated in the archive. The set includes material from important figures in the work including Tom Daly, Irmis Popoff, Lord Pentland, Helen Adie, Sophie Ouspensky, and others. Click “GHS newly activated documents” to download the complete list.

We would also bring your attention to several complete collections added to the archive in the past months.

The Katherine Breithaupt Archive

Katherine Rodomar Breithaupt was a member of Lord Pentland’s Group in New York in the 1950s. She took part in “The Movements” when they were staged at Carnegie Hall, and spent many work weekends at Mendham. She was a close friend of both Jessmin and Dushka Howarth. Her collection contains early copies of manuscripts and books, newspaper articles, notes, and a photo of Mdm. de Hartmann. This collection was donated to the GHS by her daughter, Kate Breithaupt.

The Gurdjieff Writings Archive

This collection contains material written by G.I. Gurdjieff. We have recently added an exact facsimile of the 1950 edition, which is also publicly available here.

The Muriel Draper Archive

Includes correspondence, photographs, and manuscripts from the collection of a primary American student of Gurdjieff.

The Paul and Naomi Anderson Archive

Members of the Orage groups in New York, Paul and Naomi Anderson were also with Gurdjieff at the Institute in France. Gurdjieff visited them in Washington, D.C. where they were instructed to organize and run groups. Among the original members of the Gurdjieff Foundation in New York, the Andersons later went their own way in keeping with their own instructions from Mr. Gurdjieff. This collection contains several of Mr. Anderson’s unpublished writings and talks.

To access these collections become a member of Gurdjieff Heritage Society. Your membership makes possible the work of our volunteer team in gathering and presenting these valuable materials. Please join us by applying on this page.