NAF 1/2 Papers on Serbia, Yugoslavia and Pan-Slavism Collected by Dimitrije Mitrinovi and the New Atlantis Foundation.
Date: 1901 -1970s
Extent: 14 files
Scope and content: Published articles on history and culture, articles by Dimitrije and Milivoje Mitrinovi
, press cuttings relating to events in Yugoslavia, maps, documents relating to the Orthodox Church and designs for a flag.
Language of material: English; Serbo-Croat; French; German; Russian.
Note: See also NAF 1/6/9, designs for a Yugoslavian flag.
NAF 1/2/1 "Serbo-Croat Writings", Papers of Dimitrije Mitrinović and his Circle.
Date: c1920s -1957
Extent: 11 items
Scope and content: Includes typescript letter to David Shillan concerning Yugoslavian identity. A bundle of papers in Serbo-Croat labelled "Various Serbian Writings by Others. Also Poems", consisting of largely manuscript documents in various hands and a typescript entitled "Otvaranje Turističkog Biroa 10 Maja 1926", which appears to be a speech given on the opening of a tourist office. Manuscript poem in Serbo-Croat. Three black and white studio photographs of two Serbian dancers who visited Dimitrije Mitrinović in 1947, one of which is inscribed with a message from the dancer, Miloša, and dated 26 November 1947 (photographer: Studio Lipnitzki, Paris).
Access Conditions: contains material with third party copyrights.
Language of material: Serbo-Croat (Cyrillic), English
NAF 1/2/2 File. “Writings on Yugoslavia (Serbo-Croat), some by Mitrinović” [Dimitrije Mitrinovi ].
Date: 1920s -1967
Extent: 27 items
Scope and content: Contains typescript and printed material relating to Yugoslavia, including:
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Booklet of poems, Niko Miroševi
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-Sorgo, Iz Dokonih Časova (1953)
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Commemoration of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia held in London's Serbian churches Memorandum to the Yugoslavian Minister of Foreign Affairs, on the question of help from the Serbian Orthodox Church to Orthodox Christians in Czechoslovakia and Carpathian Russia from the Serbian Patriarch (?1925)
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Copy of The Parish Herald, issue no. 1, 1954, from the Russian Orthodox Church of St Sergius of Raclonezh in London
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Extract from Dr. Vilko Riger, Ustasha Yearbook, 1942, regarding Croatia and Marxism
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Printed copy of an address given to the Serbian Royal Academy, Seventh International Philosophy Congress, Oxford, 1930
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Booklet, Dr. Miodral Tu
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akoviđ, 'History "Dušan the Mighty"', 1948;
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Sheet music for Serbian songs
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Press cuttings and typescripts of poems by Milan Raki
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and Josip Kosor
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Printed article, Branislav Petronivjevi
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, "Aristotle"; typescript concerning "Slobodna Jugoslavija" or "The Program of Free Yugoslavia, an Association of Yugoslavs in Great Britain", July 1943 Manuscript of a "Prayer on the occasion of the 100 for 1 hostages in Yugoslavia" by Jovan Du
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i
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, with an English paraphrase, October 1941
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Typescript (and English translation) of Memorandum to a diplomat in Petrograd concerning atrocities endured by Serbians living in Croatia, sent on behalf of the Serbian Orthodox church Letter from Slobodan Jovanovi
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(1869- 1958), 15 March 1951, [to Mitrinovi
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?], apparently concerning an invitation to authors to join an association of Serbian Writers in Exile. Also letter headed "Udruženje srpskih Pisaca u izgnanstvu", written on behalf of the Association by deputy chairman M. Stajinj and Dimitrije Mitrinovi
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Annotated typescript report headed "Direkcija za informativnu sluzbu Poverljivo" (Directorate of Information Services), marked confidential, dated "11.6.1943", London and containing reviews of press coverage (2 copies)
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Undated typescript document concerning starvation in Serbia
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Printed issue of journal Narodna Odbrana, vol.6, no.35, Belgrade, 30 August 1931
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Typescript, "The All-Man by Bishop Nicholas Velimirovi
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. Translated from the Serbian."
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Two copies of a typescript (one with corrections), "Urgent Message from the University Jugo-Slav Youth and the Colony in England", written during the Second World War and calling for a federation of Northern and Southern Slavs with Turkey in the post-war world.
Access Conditions: contains material with third party copyrights.
Language of material: Serbo-Croat; Russian; English
NAF 1/2/3 Political Address by Dimitrije Mitrinovi .
Date: [?1941]
Extent: 2 pages
Scope and Content: Typescript of an address by Mitrinovi
to "Brother Serbs, Croats and Slovenes" declaring his allegiance to King Peter II of Yugoslavia.
NAF 1/2/4 Papers on Yugoslavia and Art.
Date: [?1930] - [?1970s]
Extent: 10 items
Scope and content: File with notes on German art, photocopy of article by Dimitrije Mitrinovi
, 'Serbische Kunst auf der Internationalen Kunstausstellung in Rom', copied from Die Kunst für Alle, Munich, November 1911, vol. 27, accompanied by English translation 'Serbian Art at the International Art Exhibition in Rome' by Violet MacDermot. Manuscript and typescript versions of an article copied "from Antologija Jugoslovenske Misli I Narodnog Jedinstva 1390-1930, p.681. Dimitrije Mitrinovi
in 1914 writes on Yugoslavia and for Yugoslavia." Manuscript letter, with typed transcription and translation, headed "Znacajna molitva Jugoslovenskog Islama" (The Important Prayer of Yugoslav Islam), from Dimitrije Mitrinovi
, [?September 1930], to the editors of the periodical Vreme.
Language of material: English; German; Serbo-Croat
NAF 1/2/5 File. "New Serb Flag", Designs for a Yugoslavian Flag.
Date: [c1920]
Extent: 24 items
Scope and content: Scraps of paper with illustrations in coloured pencil, paint and collage of possible designs for a new Yugoslavian flag, incorporating the colours of previous Serbian, Slovenian, Croatian and Bulgarian flags. Includes a short note in Dimitrije Mitrinovi
's hand.
NAF 1/2/6 File. "Newspapers. Mostly Serbo-Croat of Potential or Actual Historical Interest", Collected by Dimitrije Mitrinovi .
Date: 16 May 1901 - 29 June 1959
Extent: 11 items
Scope and content: Newspapers and periodicals mostly dating from 1927 - 1934, including Obzor, Narodna Odbrana, Snamja Bor'by (transliterated, Russian); La Croix; News Chronicle, Politika, Pariske Novine, Rad, and Brankovo Kolo. Includes material on the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia (1888 - 1934).
Access conditions: Restricted access due to preservation issues. File contains material with third party copyrights.
Access Status: Restricted.
Language of material: Serbo-Croat; Russian; French; English
NAF 1/2/7 Newspaper Articles on the Assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia.
Date: 17 October 1934 - 24 October 1934
Extent: 2 items
Scope and content: Press cuttings from L'Echo de Belgrade, including 'La Mort Tragique de M. Le Roi Alexandre', and 'Le Supreme Hommage au Roi Chevalier et Martyr', covering the assassination and funeral of King Alexander of Yugoslavia (1888 - 1934).
Access conditions: Access may be restricted due to fragility of this material.
Language of material: French
NAF 1/2/8 Papers on the Orthodox Church and Yugoslavia.
Date: 27 July 1925- 1965
Extent: 4 items
Scope and content: Cuttings from The Tablet concerning the Russian philosopher/theologian Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, typescript English translation of a letter from the Bishop of Ba
ka to the Patriarch of Serbia regarding the Czech Orthodox Church, booklet Serbian Orthodox Church, Its Past and Present, vol. I. Includes a series of typescript notes marked 'DM' (Dimitrije Mitrinovi
) seemingly recording Mitrinovi
's responses to news from the Balkans in the Second World War (1944).
Access Conditions: File contains material with third party copyrights.
NAF 1/2/9 Scrapbook. "Yugoslavia & Balkans Press Cuttings Book".
Date: 7 November 1936 - 23 February 1957
Extent: 1 volume
Scope and content: Newspaper cuttings from British papers collected by Reginald Wrugh [a.k.a. Rex Campbell] through a press cuttings agency. Also copy of Freedom, 'the Anarchist Weekly' newspaper from 1957.
Access conditions: Contains material with third party copyrights.
NAF 1/2/10 File. "Serbian", Journals, Lectures, Press Cuttings and Drawings collected by Dimitrije Mitrinovi .
Date: 1922-1953
Extent: 17 items
Scope and content: Printed copies of Narodna Odbrana, vol.7, issue 3, Belgrade, 17 January 1932 and vol.7, issue 23, 5 June 1932. Printed /typescript copy of "Logika. Predavanja. G. Dr. B. Petronijevica", lectures on logic by Dr. G.B. Petronijevi
, 1924. Printed copy of Srpski Knjizevni Glasnik (Serbian Literary Gazette) edited by Bogdan Popovi
and Slobodan Jovanovi
, 16 January 1922. Press cuttings dating mostly from 1952-1953 on the arts, philosophy and politics, including material on Franz Overbeck and Nietzsche, Russian composer Alexander Borodin, and Robert Porters. Several unsigned sketched portraits and a caricature.
Access Conditions: Contains material with third party copyrights.
Language of material: Serbo-Croat; German.
NAF 1/2/11 Publications by N. Župani on Yugoslavia.
Date: September 1915 - April 1919
Extent: 3 items
Scope and content: Map of Southern Slav territory, created by Dr Niko Župani
, issued for the Jugoslav Committee in London, London: Christophers, 1915. Copy of Dr Niko Župani
, Les premiers habitants des pays Yougoslaves, Ethnologie Paléolithique et Néolithique de L'Illyricum, Paris: Librarie Félix Alcan, [1919], with an inscription by the author to Dimitrije Mitrinovi
. Includes an envelope addressed to Mitrinovi
from Župani
.
Access conditions: File contains material with third party copyrights.
Language of material: English; French
NAF 1/2/12 Notes and Typescripts of the Work of N. Župani on Yugoslavia.
Date: [c1919]
Extent: 6 items
Scope and content: Envelope addressed to Dimitrije Mitrinovi
, postmarked from the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, containing manuscript notes in the hands of Mitrinovi
and Dr. Niko Župani
, Curator of the Royal Ethnographical Museum in Belgrade, and annotated typescripts of works by Župani
on Yugoslavian ethnic groups and history.
Language of material: Serbo-Croat; English
NAF 1/2/13 Typescript, 'The Serbian Milton - Prince-Bishop Njegoš of Montenegro - Z. R. Prvulovich'.
Date: 1958
Extent: 1 volume; 538 pages
Scope and content: Corrected typescript of 'The Serbian Milton - Prince-Bishop Njegoš of Montenegro (1813-1851)' by Dr. Žika Rad Prvulovich [sic, Prvulovi
].
Access conditions: Third party copyright.
NAF 1/2/14 Map. 'Balkans and the Near East.'
Date: 1940
Extent: 1 item
Scope and content: Colour printed map, London Geographical Institute.
Access Conditions: Fragile. Copyright George Philip & Son Ltd.
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