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Collection Overview
- Collector:
- Verheul, Kees.
- Title:
- Kees Verheul Letters from Nadezhda Mandelstam
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/st74cv233
- Dates:
- 1968-1972
- Size:
- 1 box
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box B-001217
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of 14 handwritten letters from Russian writer Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899-1980) to Dutch author and translator, Kees Verheul.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
This collection consists of 14 handwritten letters (with envelopes), all written in English, from Russian writer Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899-1980) to Dutch author and translator, Kees Verheul.
Most of the dates affiliated with the letters come from Russian postal cancellation dates. Although months and days are noted on some letters; none include the year.
These letters were published in the New York Russian- language journal "Noviy Zhurnal."
- Collection Creator Biography:
Mandelʹshtam, Nadezhda, 1899-1980.
Nadezhda Mandelstam (Mandelʹshtam) (1899-1980) was a Russian writer and educator, and the wife of the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam (Mandelʹshtam) (1891-1938). She wrote two memoirs about their lives together and the repressive Stalinist regime: Hope Against Hope (1970) and Hope Abandoned (1974).
Verheul, Kees.
Kees Verheul (born 1940 ) is a Dutch slavist, essayist, novelist, and translator. Some of Verheul's translations include those of works by the Russian writers Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899-1980) and Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam (1891-1938).
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Gift of Kees Verheul in 2018 . AM 2018-117
- Appraisal
No materials were removed from the collection during 2018 processing beyond routine appraisal practices.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Faith Charlton in August 2018. Finding aid written by Faith Charlton in August 2018. Folder inventory added by Julia English '19 in August 2018.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
Open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Kees Verheul Letters from Nadezhda Mandelstam; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/st74cv233
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box B-001217
