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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov papers, 1918-1974

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BOX 1 REEL 1 Correspondence, 1923-1952
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
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
(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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