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EVA - Evans (Arthur) Collection
1 - Material Bequested by Arthur Evans to SSEES
1 - Evans' Writings, Sketches and Correspondence
StorageSite
UCL SSEES
Level
File
Reference Number
EVA/1/1/4
Title
Correspondence and Memoranda re the Balkans
Date
1880-1932
Description
Correspondence and memoranda re the Balkans particularly the creation 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)
Extent
2 envelopes
AccessStatus
Open
AccessConditions
These papers will be unavailable until early 2024
Related Material
See also R W Seton-Watson archive collection SEW/17/6/13 for further Evans/Seton-Watson correspondence.
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