Vladimir Nabokov papers, 1918-1987 bulk (1934-1975) [microform].

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Vladimir Nabokov papers, 1918-1987 bulk (1934-1975) [microform].

The collection consists of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence by, to, and about the author; diaries for 1941 through 1977, notebooks, legal documents, portraits, and pictorial works. There is correspondence by the author, dating from [1919]-1977, to Mark Aleksandrovich Aldanov, Elia Kazan, Sergei Makovsky, his mother Elena Ivanovna Nabokov, his wife Vera Nabokov, Gleb Struve, Edmund Wilson, the Bollingen Foundation, the Chekhov Publishing House, the Bureau littéraire D. Clairouin, Cornell University, Doubleday & Co. Publishers, the Librarie Gallimard, Harper & Bros. Publishers, Henry Holt & Co. Publishers, McGraw-Hill Inc., New Directions Publishers, The New Yorker Magazine, G. P. Putnam's Sons Publishers, the Viking Press, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, Ltd., and others. Many of these are accompanied by letters to the author from the correspondents and between the correspondents and the author's wife Vera Nabokov. There are also letters relating to the author, dating from 1944 to 1980, between various correspondents including Vera Nabokov, Matthew Bruccoli, Edmund Wilson, George Plimpton, and Prins & Prins Literary Agents and others.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7002726

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Nabokov, Elena Ivanovna, 1876-1939

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Elena Ivanovna Nabokov (neé Rukavishnikov) was born into the family of one of the wealthiest merchants in Russia, Ivan Vasilyevich Rukavishnikov. He graduated from Moscow and Saint-Petrsburg Universities with degrees in engineering and law, before going into gold-mining business. Of all the children in the family, only two survived into adulthood, Elena, end her brother Vasily, making her one of the richest heiresses in Russia. Both children received excellent education. 1n 1897 she married Vla...

Bruccoli, Matthew J. (Matthew Joseph), 1931-2008

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New Directions Publishing Corp.

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James Laughlin (1914-1997) began his publishing career as the literary editor of New Democracy, a magazine devoted to the economic theory Social Credit. Here Laughlin published Modern writers such as Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and William Carlos Williams in a section of the magazine entitled "New Directions." In 1936, while in his Junior year at Harvard University, Laughlin gathered the best of these pieces and put them together in the first annual anthology, New Directions in Prose and Poetry....

G.P. Putnam's Sons

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Weidenfeld and Nicolson (Firm)

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Wilson, Edmund

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Edmund Wilson was an American novelist, poet, essayist, and literary critic. From the description of Edmund Wilson collection of papers, 1922-1978. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122596904 From the guide to the Edmund Wilson collection of papers, 1922-1978, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) American author and critic. From the description of Typewritten letters signed...

Doubleday and Company, inc.

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Biographical Note 1906, Feb. 25 Born, Madison, N.J. 1928 A.B., Willamette University,Salem, Oreg. 1930 Clerk, Doubleday & Co.'s Pennsylvania Station bookstore, New York, N.Y. 1934 ...

Harper & Brothers.

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Correspondence (129 letters) and typescript (unsigned) revisions and notes, 1954, (23 p.) concerning the publication of The Scope of Total Architecture by Walter Gropius. Includes 22 letters from Gropius. From the description of Correspondence with Walter Gropius, 1952-1956. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612369957 Publishing firm in New York City. From the description of Harper & Brothers Records 1817-1929. (Columbia University In the City of New ...

Field, Andrew, 1938-

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Nabokova, Vera

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Struve, Gleb

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Russian-American literary historian and critic; professor of Slavic languages and literatures, University of California, Berkeley, 1947-1967. From the description of Gleb Struve papers, 1889-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122445633 From the description of Gleb Struve papers, 1810-1985. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872167 ...

McGraw-Hill, inc.

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Bureau littřaire D. Clairouin.

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Henry Holt and Company.

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Henry Holt was born on January 3, 1840 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was educated at General Prosser’s school in New Haven before attending Yale University. Although he graduated from Columbia University School of Law in 1864, Holt was fascinated by literature and decided to enter the publishing world. He started his first company, Leypoldt and Holt in 1866. In 1873 Leypoldt retired and the firm became Henry Holt and Co. His most popular series was the Leisure Hour series, launched in 1872. Later i...

Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992

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Kay Boyle (1902-1992) was an American avant garde writer and poet. She lived in San Francisco, Newark, Delaware, and Rowayton, Connecticut, when she wrote these letters. From the description of Kay Boyle letters and poems, 1935-1975. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 33890909 Kay Boyle was an American essayist, novelist, short-story writer, translator, essayist, and translator. From the description of Kay Boyle collection of papers, 1...

Bollingen foundation

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Kazan, Elia

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American film director. From the description of Carbon copy of a typed letter : place not specified, to Darryl [Zanuck], undated [1952 Jan. or Feb.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 778505876 American film producer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to [John Steinbeck], undated [1948]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 777247890 From the description of Preservation photocopy of a typed letter : place not specified, to John Stein...

Viking Press.

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Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977

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Vladimir Nabokov was a Russian and American novelist, poet, short-story writer, lecturer, and literary critic. From the description of Vladimir Nabokov papers, 1918-1987 bulk (1934-1975) [microform]. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 210012737 From the description of Vladimir Nabokov papers, 1918-1987 bulk (1934-1975). (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122465556 From the guide to the Vladimir Nabokov papers, 1918-1987, 1934-1975, (The New Y...

Prins & Prins.

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Izdatelstvo imeni Chekhova (New York, N.Y.)

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Cornell University

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Aldanov, Mark Aleksandrovich, 1886-1957

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