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Evans, Sir Arthur John, (1851-1941), Knight, archaeologist

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Surname: Evans
Pretitle: Sir
Forenames: Arthur John
Gender: Male
Date: 1851-1941
Biography: ODNB link for Evans, Sir Arthur John (1851-1941) Knight archaeologist
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P142946 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P9460 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir Arthur John Evans
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1894-1929: Knossos notebooks (25) and papers
Oxford University: Sackler Library
NRA 28493 Ashmolean Mus
2
photographs, plans and maps of Knossos excavations, press cuttings, offprints, etc
Oxford University: Ashmolean Museum, Department of Antiquities
NRA 28493 Ashmolean Mus
3
papers rel to the Balkans
London University: UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
EVA
4
1892-1941: corresp with Macmillans
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 55219
5
1888-1932: letters to the Manchester Guardian
Manchester University: University of Manchester Library
Guardian archives
NRA 18162 Guardian
6
1896-1939: corresp with JL Myres
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Myres
NRA 28774 Myres
7
1941-53: corresp about his planned publications on Knossos
Society of Antiquaries of London
MS 969
NRA 39431

See PJ Willetts, Manuscripts in the Society of Antiquaries of London (2000)
8
drawings, photographs and newspaper cuttings rel to his travels in Scandinavia and the Balkans.
University of Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum: Manuscript Collections
PRM.1941.8.27-193
NRA 28527 Pitt-Rivers Mus misc