[1] In 1850 Nenadović founded the literary review Šumadinka (Serbian Cyrillic: Шумадинка).

This magazine he edited and published between 1850 and 1857 sometimes together with almanac Šumadinče (Serbian Cyrillic: Шумадинче) in which he published his father's manuscripts about the First Serbian uprising, (Rukopisi Prote Mateje Nenadovića).

He corresponded with writers Đorđe Rajković (1825–1886), Ludwig August von Frankl, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, and Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja to whom he dedicated a poem.

He had frequent correspondence with Montenegrin Knjaz Danilo and organized delivery of one printing press to him.

The first members of the Academy of Natural Sciences were Josif Pančić, Dimitrije Nešić, Ljubomir Klerić and Jovan Žujović; in the Academy of Philosophical Sciences these were Stojan Novaković, Milan Kujundžić Aberdar, Svetislav Vulović and Svetomir Nikolajević; first members of the Academy of Social Sciences were Čedomilj Mijatović, Milan Milićević, Ljubomir Kovačević (1848–1918) and Panta Srećković; and in the Academy of Arts: Ljubomir Nenadović, Matija Ban, Mihailo Valtrović and Davorin Jenko.