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14. Ibid., p. 136, van Eeden to Borel, September 15, 1914.

15. Ibid., p. 138, Theodor Daubler, 1876-1934, was a German poet associated with the expressionist movement.

16. Ibid., p. 143, van Eeden to Borel, September 24, 1914.

17. Ibid., p. 144, September 27, 1914.

18. Ibid., p. 154. The “three days” refers to a gathering of Blutbund members at Potsdam in June 1914.

19. Ibid., p. 166.

20. Quoted in “Gustav Landauer,” Anarchy, no. 54, August 1965, p. 248.

21. February 12, 1916.

22. The meeting with Schuré arranged for February 25, 1916 was cancelled as Schuré was suffering from influenza.

23. Palavestra, op. cit., p. 16.

24. Ibid., p. 17.

25. Stephen Graham, Part of the Wonderful Scene, London: Collins, 1964, pp. 121-2.

26. Idem.

27. According to Mairet, Mitrinovi¢’s lessons could be enjoyable “if you were responsive to his singular method, which was to expand the study of every word into a dissertation upon the significance of the Slay spirit in world destiny.” P. Mairet, Autobiographical and Other Papers, Manchester: Carcanet, 1981, p. 91.

28. Ibid., p. 94.

29. Ibid., p. 85.

30. Ibid., p. 86.

31. Ibid., pp. 103-4.

32. Ibid., p. 108.

33. Ibid., p. 126.

34. Ibid., p. 129.

35. Graham, op. cit., p. 251.

36. The exact date of his resignation from the diplomatic corps is not clear, but it was probably during the summer of 1920. Certainly there is evidence that he was involved in work related to his position up to and throughout 1919. In that year he worked on a huge Latin-English edition of Roger Boscovic’s A Theory of Natural Philosophy which was eventually published in 1922 with an introduction by J. M. Child of Manchester University. In November 1919 he gave the address at a dinner in London in honour of Dr. Niko Zupani¢, the curator of the Royal

Ethnological Museum in Belgrade who had helped with the preparation of The South Slav Monuments.

37. Mairet, op. cit., p. 130.

38. Postcard to Helen Soden, Woodbine Cottage, Ditchling, August 17, probably 1919.