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Catalogue of Evans Collection - EVA/1/1/1-EVA/1/1/6 item descriptions

EVA/1/1/1 - Notebooks, notes, sketches and correspondence re Bosnia, Herzegovina, Greece and Macedonia (1875-1885)

Previous number: item 1

Contents: five notebooks by Evans containing notes and sketches from his travels in Bosnia, Herzegovina, Macedonia and Greece (1877, 1883 and undated), notebook containing sketches by Evans' brother Lewis (1875) and folder of notes and sketches (particularly of inscriptions) including ?original sketches later reproduced in "Through Bosnia and Herzegovina" (London, 1876); letters to Evans from the Bosnian Beys (1877) and Viscount Bryce (1885).

(Languages) English & Latin (inscriptions) & Serbo-Croat

8 envelopes and 1 folder

EVA/1/1/2 - Notes, sketches and correspondence re Bosnia, Herzegovina and Serbia (1878-1881;1932)

Previous number: part of item 2

Contents: notes, sketches and correspondence from Evans' travels in Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Serbia.

(Languages) English & (small amount) German & Italian & Serbo-Croat

2 envelopes
Condition: some papers very fragile

EVA/1/1/3 - Lectures, memoranda and articles re South Slavs, the creation of a united South Slav state and the Adriatic question (1879-1918)

Previous number: part of item 5

Contents: lectures, memoranda and articles written by Evans for the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" mainly re the South Slavs, the creation of a united South Slav state and the Adriatic question. Comprises -

• Articles (?1879) on the "Encyclopaedia Britannica on "Vlachs", "Herzegovina" and "Romania"
• Lecture given at Manchester University on the South Slavs
• "The future South Slav state" (?1918)
• "Memorandum on the National Union of the Southern Slavs and the Adriatic question" (April 1915)
• "The Adriatic Slavs and the overland route to Constantinople" (Jan 1916)
• "The liberation of the South Slavs" (?1918)

(Languages) English

2 envelopes

EVA/1/1/4 - Correspondence and memoranda re the Balkans (1880-1932)

Previous number: part of item 3

Contents: correspondence and memoranda re the Balkans particularly the creation of of a united South Slav state after the First World War including copies of letters from Evans' father-in-law E A Freeman to William Gladstone and from Evans to Edward Grey (1915) and letters from R W Seton-Watson (1915;1932). Also contains the following memoranda by Evans -

• "The possible neutralisation of the coastal waters on the East Adriatic and its bearing on the rival claims of Italy and Yugoslavia" (Dec 1918)
• "Les Slaves de L'Adriatique et la Route continentale de Constantinople" (1916)
• "Memorandum on Yugoslavia and the Adriatic question" (1918)
• "Memorial in favour of a lasting peace in the Near East" (Feb 1913)
• "A rumoured secret agreement with Italy involving the annexation of the Serbo-Croat population of Northern Dalmatia" (1915)
• "The abandonment of Montenegro: and the anti-Slav policy of Italy in the Adriatic" (?1918)
• "Memorandum on the National Union of the Southern Slavs and the Adriatic Question" (April 1915)
• "Memorandum on the part of the Balkan Committee to the Peace delegates of the Balkan allies" (?1918)

(Languages) (mainly) English & French & Italian

2 envelopes

See also: R W Seton-Watson archive collection SEW/17/6/13 for further Evans/Seton-Watson correspondence

EVA/1/1/5 - Notebooks and notes re early history of the South Slavs (circa) (1884)

Previous number: part of item 6

Contents: notebooks and notes by Evans on the early history of the South Slavs

(Languages) English & German

2 envelopes

EVA/1/1/6 - Correspondence and memoranda re the creation of a united South Slav state and the Adriatic question (1916-1919)

Previous number: part of item 4

Contents: correspondence and memoranda re the creation of a united South Slav state and the Adriatic question including letters sent by Evans to "The Times" and re his membership of the British-Italian League and the Serbian Society. Contains the following memoranda -

• "Bosnia and the Serbian question"

(Languages) (mainly) English & French & Italian

7 envelopes

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