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Collection Data
- Description
- The collection consists of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, diaries for 1941 through 1977, notebooks, legal documents, portraits, and pictorial works.
- Names
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 (Creator)
- Aldanov, Mark Aleksandrovich, 1886-1957 (Addressee)
- Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992 (Former owner)
- Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph, 1931-2008 (Correspondent)
- Field, Andrew, 1938- (Former owner)
- Kazan, Elia (Addressee)
- Makovskiĭ, Sergeĭ Konstantinovich, 1877-1962 (Contributor)
- Nabokov, Elena Ivanovna (Addressee)
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 (Former owner)
- Nabokova, Vera (Correspondent)
- Plimpton, George (Correspondent)
- Struve, Gleb (Addressee)
- Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972 (Correspondent)
- Bollingen Foundation (Contributor)
- Bureau littéraire D. Clairouin (Addressee)
- Cornell University (Addressee)
- Doubleday & Company, Inc. (Addressee)
- G.P. Putnam's Sons (Addressee)
- Harper & Brothers (Addressee)
- Henry Holt and Company (Recording engineer)
- Izdatelʹstvo imeni Chekhova (New York, N.Y.) (Contributor)
- Librarie Gallimard (Addressee)
- McGraw-Hill, inc. (Addressee)
- New Directions Publishing (Addressee)
- New Yorker Magazine, Inc (Addressee)
- Prins & Prins (Correspondent)
- Viking Press (Addressee)
- Weidenfeld and Nicolson (Firm) (Addressee)
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 (Author)
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 (Addressee)
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 (Artist)
- Dates / Origin
- Date Created: 1918 - 1987
- Library locations
- Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
- Shelf locator: Berg Coll MSS Nabokov
- Topics
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977
- Genres
- Correspondence
- Diaries
- Notebooks
- Portraits
- Notes
- Biographical/historical: Vladimir Nabokov was a Russian and American novelist, poet, short-story writer, lecturer, and literary critic.
- Content: The collection consists of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, diaries for 1941 through 1977, notebooks, legal documents, portraits, and pictorial works. The manuscripts and typescripts include holographs, photocopies, drafts, and setting copies of novels, short stories, plays, poems, interviews, lectures, notes toward works, essays, and criticism in English, Russian, French, Italian, and Polish. There are also manuscripts and typescripts of works relating to the author and his 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 Véra 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 Véra Nabokov. There are also letters relating to the author, dating from 1944 to 1980, between various correspondents including Véra Nabokov, Matthew Bruccoli, Edmund Wilson, George Plimpton, and Prins & Prins Literary Agents and others.
- Content: Card catalog available.
- Funding: Creation of collection-level record funded with the generous support of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation.
- Ownership: The collection comprises the papers of the author, as well as other minor acquisitions from various sources including Andrew Field and Kay Boyle.
- Acquisition: This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.
- Content: Processing information: Processed by Stephen G. Crook; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.
- Physical Description
- Extent: 15,254 items
- Type of Resource
- Text
- Identifiers
- NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b15826786
- MSS Unit ID: 19126
- Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 61ef4260-d2da-0139-ff02-0242ac110003
