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From: "Phillip Iannarelli" <iann88us@yahoo.com>
To: <NABOKV-L@listserv.ucsb.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 5:43 AM
Subject: Drafts Burnt?
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> In the wonderful TriQuarterly tribute to VN, 1970,
> Winter, #17, there is an interview with VN who says he
> wants all the priminary drafts for his works to be
> burnt. No variorum edition of the index cards for Pale
> Fire for scholars to pour over. Did this in fact
> happen and are there no rough drafts or cards left
> of his works? He said he believed in only the final
> product.
>
> Phil Iannarelli
>
> __________________________________________________
EDNOTE. VN did not burn all his drafts. The VN archive in the Manuscripts
Division of the Library of Congress has many of them as does the Berg
Collection at the NYPL. Most require permission of the VN estate to see. The
note cards to PF are among them.
To: <NABOKV-L@listserv.ucsb.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 5:43 AM
Subject: Drafts Burnt?
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (15
lines) ------------------
> In the wonderful TriQuarterly tribute to VN, 1970,
> Winter, #17, there is an interview with VN who says he
> wants all the priminary drafts for his works to be
> burnt. No variorum edition of the index cards for Pale
> Fire for scholars to pour over. Did this in fact
> happen and are there no rough drafts or cards left
> of his works? He said he believed in only the final
> product.
>
> Phil Iannarelli
>
> __________________________________________________
EDNOTE. VN did not burn all his drafts. The VN archive in the Manuscripts
Division of the Library of Congress has many of them as does the Berg
Collection at the NYPL. Most require permission of the VN estate to see. The
note cards to PF are among them.