Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov papers, 1918-1974 (Library of Congress Finding Aid)

Container	Contents

BOX 1 REEL 1	Correspondence, 1923-1952
BOX 1 REEL 1		Letters received and sent.
		Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent, organization, or subject and chronologically therein.
BOX 1 REEL 1		Letters received
			A. M. Heath & Co., 1935-1936
			Aikhenvalʹd, IU. I., 1926, undated
			Aldanov, Mark Aleksandrovich, 1934-1938
			Banks, Nathan, 1942
			Baty, Gaston, 1938
			Berberova, Nina Nikolaevna, 1931-1939
			Berdiaev, Nikolai, 1939
			Bertensson, Sergei, 1938
			Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich, 1938-1939
			Chambers, D. L., 1939
			Crémieux, Benjamin, 1939
			Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1942
			Donich, Rostislav, 1939
			du Dy, Mélot, 1937
			East and West Association, 1942
			Fondaminskii, Ilʹia, and Ant. Fridmann [?], 1933
			Gessen, G., 1938
			Gessen, I. V., 1938
			Goudy, Alexander Porter, 1939
			Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1942-1951
			Hirschberg, Bernhard, 1925
			Holger Schildts Förlagsaktiebolag, 1936
			Iablokova [?], Tatʹiana, 1938-1939
			Institute of International Education, New York, N.Y., 1942
			Jannelli, Altagracia de, 1935-1942
			John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1943, 1952
			Kaun, Alexander, 1936
			Khodasevich, V. F., 1937-1938
			Kovarskii, I., 1935-1936
			Laval, Karin de, 1937
			Library of Congress, 1937
			Lukash, Ivan, 1925-1926
			Malozemova, E., 1938
			Mann, Klaus, 1941
			Marinell, Elizabeth, 1940-1942
			Michener, Charles Duncan, 1942
			New Yorker, circa 1940s
			Osorgin, Mikhail, 1933
			Petropolis, publishers, 1934-1938
			Pravdin, V., 1937
			Priel, Jarl, 1938
			Prismanova, Anna, undated
			Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1938
			Rapchinskii, Boris, 1936
			Rosov, Samuil, 1936
			Rostovtzeff, Michael Ivanovich, 1939
			Rudnev, V. V. See same container and reel, Letters received, Sovremennye zapiski
			Russkie zapiski, 1938-1939
			Shakovskoi, Ioann, circa 1925, 1933
			Slonim, Marc, 1935
			Smeding, H. J., 1939
			Sorokin, P. A., 1939
			Sovremennye zapiski, 1937
			Tolstoy, Alexandra, 1938
			Ullstein GmbH, 1935
			University of Leeds, Leeds, England, 1939
			Unkovskii, V., 1938
			Wereldbibliotheek-Vereening, 1939
			Zelenskii, Filip, 1923
			Zenzinov, V., 1935-1938
			Unidentified, 1939-1942, undated
		Letters sent
			Fondaminskii, Ilʹia See same container and reel, Letters sent, Sovremennye zapiski
			Klement, Otto, 1935
			Kortner, Fritz, 1937
			Life, 1943
			Maklakov, V. A., 1938
			Nikolajević, N., 1933
			Novoe russkoe slovo, 1941
			Pavlovski, M., 1937
			Pertzoff, Peter, 1933-1944, undated
			Poslednie novosti, 1937
			Rudnev, V. V. See same container and reel, Letters sent, Sovremennye zapiski
			Rydelius, Ellen Victoria, 1937
			Sovremennye zapiski, 1937
			Tatarinov, Raisa
			Vremea, publishers, 1939
			Zenzinov, V. See same container and reel, Letters sent, Sovremennye zapiski
BOX 1-21 REEL 1-13	Writings, 1918-1964
BOX 1-21 REEL 1-13		Drafts, proofs, and printed versions of biographies, book reviews, essays, memoirs, novellas, novels, plays, poems, short stories, and translations of works by others as well as correspondence and notes.
		Arranged alphabetically by type of writing, title, and type of material.
BOX 1 REEL 1		Fiction
			Novels
				Bend Sinister
					Book review by A. Nazaroff, broadcast on “Voice of America” radio, transcript in Russian, 1947
					Draft in English, undated
						(2 folders)
BOX 2 REEL 2						(2 folders)
				Dar (The Gift)
					Drafts in Russian, undated
						Chapters 1 and 4
							(3 folders)
						Fragments
						Unpublished chapter drafts
							(2 folders)
					Printed version in Sovremennye zapiski in Russian, 1937-1938
						(2 folders)
				Kamera obskura (Camera Obscura, 1936, and Laughter in the Dark, 1938), draft fragment in Russian, 1931
				Korolʹ, dama, valet (King, Queen, Knave), draft fragment in Russian, undated
				Lolita, notes in English on 4"x 6" cards, 1950-1955 See also Containers 10-12, Reels 8-9, Lolita: A Screenplay
					(6 folders)
BOX 3 REEL 3				Mashenʹka (Mary), draft in Russian, circa 1925
BOX 3 REEL 3					(2 folders)
				Otchaianie (Despair), draft in Russian, 1932
				Pale Fire, draft in English on 4"x 6" cards, 1957-1961, undated
					(17 folders)
BOX 4 REEL 4					(24 folders)
BOX 5					(23 folders)
BOX 6 REEL 5					(5 folders)
				Pnin, notes in English, undated
				Podvig (Glory), draft in Russian, 1930
					(2 folders)
				Priglashenie na kaznʹ (Invitation to a Beheading)
					English edition, 1959
						Draft
							(5 folders)
BOX 7 REEL 6							(1 folder)
						Galley proofs
							(3 folders)
						Setting copy
							(5 folders)
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