The New Atlantis Foundation Dimitrije Mitrinović Archive: Catalogue



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NAF 3/14 Papers of David Shillan.


Date: 1940 -1976

Extent: 3 files

Scope and content: Correspondence, including material relating to the writer Hélan Jaworski, Yugoslavia and the Second World War.

Notes: See also NAF 1/5, NAF 5/2/2-NAF 5/23, NAF 5/2/7, NAF 5/3/15, NAF 5/8/3, NAF 9, and NAF 10/2/38.


NAF 3/14/1 File. "File Q. More Intimate Correspondence." David Shillan Letters.


Date: 1940, 1945 -1976

Extent: 16 items

Scope and content: Letters, largely to and from David Shillan, with one each from Niall MacDermot and Paul Bradshaw. Includes letters sent by Shillan from Yugoslavia in 1940.

NAF 3/14/1/1 Letter to Orion Playfair from David Shillan.

Date: 9 May 1940

Extent: 1 page, 2 sides

Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from the Anglo-American-Jugoslav Club, Dobrinjska 10/II, Belgrade. Shillan discusses long working hours, being away from family, his position on the Editorial board for a new Serbian newspaper and sending books to "Kenneth."



NAF 3/14/1/2 Letter to Leo [Leo Kohlberg] from David Shillan.

Date: 25 February 1940

Extent: 1 page, 2 sides

Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from Grand Hotel Bristol, Belgrade. Shillan discusses a visitor coming to London from Belgrade, Wedgwood Benn's visit to Yugoslavia (which Shillan was hosting), Vladeta Popović and the "Institute", Orion Playfair and other mutual friends.



NAF 3/14/1/3 Letter to David Shillan from "Lisa" [Dame Elizabeth Hill].

Date: 28 September 1976

Extent: 1 page, 2 sides

Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from 10 Crop Gardens, Cambridge. Hill discusses the response she had received on the announcement that she was to be made a Dame for her work in Slavonic Studies.



NAF 3/14/1/4 Letter to David Shillan and Anne Shillan from Margaret Drewert.

Date: 19 July 1961

Extent: 1 page, 2 sides

Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from The Rectory, Ironmonger Lane, London E.C.2., writing about a ceremony staged by the New Atlantis Foundation, their friendship and spiritual practices, her involvement in other organisations and movements.



NAF 3/14/1/5 Letter to David Shillan et al. from Leo [Leo Kohlberg].

Date: 14 November 1972

Extent: 1 page, 2 sides

Scope and content: Manuscript letter responding to a review of In my own way by Alan Watts. Kohlberg discusses a visit from Niall MacDermot and a lecture by Jean Twentyman on Hélan Jaworksi' Organic Vision.



NAF 3/14/1/6 Note to David Shillan from "N" [Unidentified].

Date: 7 March [c1950s]

Extent: 1 page, 2 sides

Scope and content: The sender asks Shillan for helping in tracking down English translations of a Swiss author's works. S/he writes about Young and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.



NAF 3/14/1/7 Letter to Paul Bradshaw from David Shillan.

Date: 17 November 1967

Extent: 1 page

Scope and content: Copy typescript letter from Shillan to Bradshaw, responding to the idea of creating a Gordon Fraser Fund, and discussing the work she did in writing up and copying notes and protocols for the New Atlantis Foundation.



NAF 3/14/1/8 Letter to David Shillan from Paul Bradshaw.

Date: 8 November 1967

Extent: 1 page

Scope and content: Typescript letter from Bradshaw concerning the funeral of Winifred Gordon Fraser and his proposal for a publication fund to be established in her honour.



NAF 3/14/1/9 Letter to John Taylor from Paul Bradshaw.

Date: 8 November 1967

Extent: 1 page

Scope and content: Copy typescript letter from Bradshaw to John Taylor concerning publishing a translation of Das Russisches Theater by Gregor Füllop-Miller.



NAF 3/14/1/10 Letter to David Shillan from Barbara Dumant.

Date: 22 September 1970

Extent: 1 page

Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from Jamaica Cottage, Malthouse Lane, West Ashling, Sussex, responding to the news of the death of S. Harrison, musician, and expressing her wish to attend a memorial concert.



NAF 3/14/1/11 Letter to David Shillan from "Jack" [Jack Murphy?].

Date: 2 April 1964

Extent: 2 pages

Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from 4 Broughton Gardens, Highgate, London N.6., announcing the death of his wife, Molly, and asking Shillan to tell members of the New Atlantis Group. He writes about his wife's final wishes and his grief.



NAF 3/14/1/12 Letter to "Alexander" from David Shillan.

Date: 24 April 1940

Extent: 1 page, 2 sides

Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from the Anglo-American-Jugoslav Club, Dobrinjska 10/II, Belgrade. Shillan discusses his lack of progress on some business enquiries Alexander had asked him to make, his worries about his family, Alexander's financial expenses, and asks after mutual friends.

Notes: A note by a New Atlantis Foundation member suggests Leo Kohlberg may have been the recipient of this letter.

NAF 3/14/1/13 Letter to David Shillan from Winifred Gordon Fraser.

Date: 7 January 1940

Extent: 1 page, 2 sides

Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from Hawthornden, Headley Down, Bordon, Hampshire. Gordon Fraser writes about her impression of Gardiner, Federalism, a job vacancy, her unsuccessful attempt to become a Censor, translation work, and Vocational Representation.



NAF 3/14/1/14 Letter to Orion Playfair from David Shillan.

Date: 3 April 1940

Extent: 1 page, 2 sides

Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from the Palace Hotel, Zagreb. Shillan writes about Belgrade and other Yugoslavian cities, his desire to talk to Playfair, his work and travel in Yugoslavia, and some news of mutual friends.



NAF 3/14/1/15 Letter to David Shillan from "Elsie" and "Donald."

Date: 7 January 1966

Extent: 1 page

Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from South Africa, responding to the news of the death of Valerie Cooper.



NAF 3/14/1/16 Letter to R. George Upton from Niall MacDermot.

Date: 17 May 1945

Extent: 1 page

Scope and content: Copy typescript letter sent from HQ 21st Army Group (Main), B.L.A. to the Steward of the Bedford Estate discussing the occupancy of 2 Gower Street, London during the war.


NAF 3/14/2 David Shillan file on Hélan Jaworski.


Date: ?1953-1958

Extent: 5 items

Scope and content: Manuscript and typescript letters from Hélan Jaworski to David Shillan; flyer for Renaissance Club lectures on Jaworski.

NAF 3/14/3 Letter to David Shillan from Sir John Pratt.


Date: 15 June 1955

Extent: 2 pages

Scope and content: Manuscript letter sent from 1 Wetherby Gardens, Kensington, London S.W.5, discussing an article by Professor W. Arthur Lewis that was due to be reprinted in the Manchester Guardian. Pratt encloses a copy typescript letter he wrote to the Editor of the Guardian concerning taxing the wealthy.

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