...Agony in the ten days during which they watched their eldest son Die from his wounds.

He met Anne Jackson in 1927, and they were married in 1930. In 1935, they were brought to the group of P. D. Ouspensky in London, and found a resonance there to their inner search. During the London blitz, Fremantle went to live with the Ouspenskys to the United States, and they worked with them in Mendham, N. J., until Ouspensky's death in 1947.

Ouspensky's widow then revealed a shocking secret: Gurdjieff was still alive. "Hurry, don't waste a moment. Go to George Ivanovitch." It was the first inkling Fremantle had that the mysterious figure who had been Ouspensky's teacher was still alive. He left at once for Paris and studied with Gurdjieff until Gurdjieff's death on October 29, 1949.

In 1951, Jeanne de Salzmann, Gurdjieff's successor, sent Fremantle to Mexico to take charge of the groups, a responsibility he carried for almost thirty years, spending every summer there and making numerous week-long visits during the year.

He returned to Paris in 1962 to work with Madame de Salzmann and stayed until 1966, when he was sent to the United States to help guide the groups in New York, Chicago, and other cities, a task he continued until his death on December 19, 1978. His grave is in Swanbourne, Buckinghamshire, England.

Fremantle's pupils ranged from beginners to older pupils responsible for transmitting the ideas of Gurdjieff. They wrote to...