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----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Boyd (FOA ENG)" <b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz>
To: "'D. Barton Johnson '" <chtodel@cox.net>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 2:23 PM
Subject: RE: VN looking for a job in S Africa and India
> VNAY 431: VN to Sir Bernard Pares, 16 Nov 1936.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Barton Johnson
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Sent: 1/6/2004 6:17 AM
> Subject: Fw: VN looking for a job in S Africa and India
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sergey Karpukhin <mailto:shrewd@irk.ru>
> To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 9:23 PM
> Subject: VN looking for a job in S Africa and India
>
> Dear all,
>
> I hazily remember Nabokov saying in the late 1930s that he was ready to
> work as a university lecturer anywhere in the English-speaking world,
> India and South Africa included. I thought it was somewhere in his
> letters to Gleb Struve or some other good friend who could assist him in
> finding a job, but now I can't find it. Can anyone help clarify this?
>
> Thanks a lot, as usual.
>
> Sergey
> -----------------------------------
>
> EDNOTE. I thought it might be mentioned in one of Andrew Field's book
> since he lived in Australia during his Nabokov period but a quick index
> check didn't turn up anything. Does anyone recall where VN writes this?
>
>
From: "Brian Boyd (FOA ENG)" <b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz>
To: "'D. Barton Johnson '" <chtodel@cox.net>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 2:23 PM
Subject: RE: VN looking for a job in S Africa and India
> VNAY 431: VN to Sir Bernard Pares, 16 Nov 1936.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Barton Johnson
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Sent: 1/6/2004 6:17 AM
> Subject: Fw: VN looking for a job in S Africa and India
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sergey Karpukhin <mailto:shrewd@irk.ru>
> To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 9:23 PM
> Subject: VN looking for a job in S Africa and India
>
> Dear all,
>
> I hazily remember Nabokov saying in the late 1930s that he was ready to
> work as a university lecturer anywhere in the English-speaking world,
> India and South Africa included. I thought it was somewhere in his
> letters to Gleb Struve or some other good friend who could assist him in
> finding a job, but now I can't find it. Can anyone help clarify this?
>
> Thanks a lot, as usual.
>
> Sergey
> -----------------------------------
>
> EDNOTE. I thought it might be mentioned in one of Andrew Field's book
> since he lived in Australia during his Nabokov period but a quick index
> check didn't turn up anything. Does anyone recall where VN writes this?
>
>