Correspondence, 1764–1814, 124 items. Imperial chancellor under Alexander I. Letters of Count Aleksandr Romanovich; Count Semen Romanovich Vorontsov (1744–1832), his brother and Russian ambassador to Vienna and London; and Ivan Larionovich Vorontsov-Dashkov, a relative of the Vorontsov brothers who inherited part of the estate of their sister, Princess Ekaterina Romanova (Vorontsova) Dashkova, when she died in 1810. The family, signing the name "Woronzow," writes to bankers in London and France primarily. The letters, mostly in French, concern financial accounts, the importing of wine, tobacco, and tea, a move from Pisa to London via Frankfurt, and the shipment of a set of armoires.
AMFITEATROV MSS.
The Amfiteatrov mss., 1890-1948, consist of letters to and the writings of Aleksandr Valentinovich Amfiteatrov, 1862- 1938, journalist, playwright. Many of the correspondents are Russian emigre writers and literary critics. Most of the collection is in Russian. Sorting of the collection is in process. -- Collection size: 8,000 items.
BALTIC MSS.
The Baltic mss., 1539-1710, are primarily legal documents. -- Collection size: 4 items.
BERRY MSS.
The Berry mss., 1925-1971, are the papers of Burton Yost Berry, 1901-1985, diplomat. They consist of correspondence with diplomats, foreign service officers, army officers, statesmen, educators, congressmen, senators, editors, governors, lawyers, businessmen, numismatists, bankers, museum curators, government officials, and archaeologists; reports on Turkish life and civilization; diaries; pictures; newspaper clippings; and memorabilia. Some material reportedly pertains to Russian/Slavic literature. One correspondent is George Frost Kennan. -- Collection size: 6,044 items.
Bonaro Wilkinson Overstreet (b. 1902)
Papers, 1913–78, 63,004 items. Author, poet, and psychologist. Includes printer's copy of her 1960 book, The War Called Peace, which discusses Soviet foreign relations in the post-1945 era.
Claude Gernade Bowers (1878-1958)
Papers, 1868–1972, ca. 18,400 items. Journalist and diplomat. 8 letters, 14 October 1937–1 August 1938, Bowers received from Frank B. Hayne, who described his travel in the Soviet Union, some carbon copies. Unpublished finding aid.
DOMHERR MSS.
The Domherr mss., 1937-1975, consist of papers of Russian editor and translator Ludwig Leopoldovich Domherr, 1894- . Domherr left the Soviet Union in 1942, lived as a refugee in Austria and Paris following the war and emigrated to the United States in 1951. His first job in the U.S. was with the Ford Foundation's Research Program on the U.S.S.R.; in 1956 he joined the staff of America Illustrated, published by the U.S. Information Agency, becoming chief of the Russian language staff in the 1960's. Present in the collection are notes and transcriptions of letters of Alexander Herzen [Gertsen] prepared by Domherr for publication, as well as newspaper clippings about Domherr's work on the Herzen letters. Most of the material is in Russian. -- Gift. 1988 -- Collection size: 92 items. -- A folder list is available: http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/index.php?p=domherrinv
EASTMAN, E. MSS.
The Eastman, E. mss., 1923-1958, consist primarily of the correspondene and writings of Eliena Vassilyenva (Krylenko) Eastman, (Mrs. Max Eastman), 1895-1956, artist, and Max Eastman, 1883-1969, author. Miss Krylenko, born in Lublin, Poland, was the daughter of a Russian government official. Her brother Nikolai was a lawyer who joined the Bolshevik Party. In 1918 she graduated from the Leningrad University law school but did not join the Party. Employed as a private secretary to Maxim Litvinov in spite of her non-Party status, Miss Krylenko and Max Eastman met at the Genoa Conference in 1922 where Eastman was a special correspondent for the New York World. They renewed their acquaintance in Russia and were married in 1924. After a sojourn in Europe among other American ex-patriates they returned to the United States to live in 1927. Miss Krylenko was interested in teaching dancing to children on Martha's Vineyard Island, in painting--she held several shows in New York and others in Paris and Boston--and in writing poetry which was published in The Freeman and Novy Zhurnal. In addition she taught for two years at the Walden School in New York and did translating work. The correspondence was conducted during intervals in Russia--when Miss Krylenko commented on the death of Lenin, during Eastman's lecture tours in the United States, and during trips to Europe for Reader's Digest editorial projects--when Miss Krylenko heard Alcide de Gasperi give a campaign speech in 1951. In 1929 Eastman was in England to fulfill his obligations as guardian for the children of his sister Crystal (Eastman) Fuller. At this same time he furthered the gathering of pictures for his movie in preparation entitled Tzar to Lenin, which Miss Krylenko assisted in editing, by traveling to Paris and Berlin. Some of the letters are in Russian and a few telegrams are in French, German, and Spanish. Occasionally drawings are appended to Miss Krylenko's letters: a dog, 1926, Mar. 20; cats, 1920, Feb., and 1930; a woman and dog, 1942.
The writings consist chiefly of sketches derived from her personal experiences in Russia and a few poems. In 1958 Max Eastman reread the letters, made notes about them and about Eliena, and compiled a chronology of their stay in Europe for 1924-1927.
Folders of biographical material and of clippings related to activities with dancing classes and art shows complete the collection.
Correspondents are Mary (Ritter) Beard, Josephine Bennett, Francis Biddle, Isabel Bishop, Charles Breck, Gina (Knee) Brook, Patricia (Taylor) Buckley, Witter Bynner, John Carroll, Amy Charak, Mady Christians, William Irving Clark, Edward Estlin Cummings, John Dewey, Pendleton Dudley, Daniel Eastman, Eliena Vassilyenva (Krylenko) Eastman, Max Eastman, Angna Enters, Ralph Erskine, Michael Farano, Lewis Stiles Gannett, Charles Bruce Gould, Charles Barney Harding, Eugene Higgins, Earl Francis Hofmann, Robert Sturgis Ingersoll, Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker, Isaac Don Levine, Samuel Morris Levitas, Diana B. Lewis, Jere Knight Lindtner, Mabel (Ganson) Dodge Luhan, Alexander Orlov, John Goldsmith Phillips, Frederick Bruce Robinson, Andrea Louise (Heinemann) Simon, Tess Slesinger, Boris Souvarine, Kay B. Stevens, Muriel Tourrenc, Irita (Brooks) Van Doren, Margit (Herzfeld) von Mises, DeWitt Wallace, Lila Belle (Acheson) Wallace, William Zorach. -- Collection size: 626 items.
Francis Vinton Greene (1850-1921)
Papers, 1876–1914, 12 items. General, historian, and engineer. Includes letter, 10 July 1883, to him from Thomas H. Anderson concerning the Russian army.
Frederick Tennyson (1807-1898)
Papers, 1841–1922, 1,209 items. Poet. Letters discussing current Russian affairs: 3 from him to Mrs. Mary Isabella Irwin (Rees) Brotherton, 24 January 1872; 9 April 1878; and 16 December 1879, and 1 to him from Mrs. Brotherton, a novelist, 19 April 1881.
Hermann Joseph Muller
Papers. Nobel Prizewinning physicist. Contains a considerable file of correspondence with many Soviet geneticists during the late 1920s, early 1930s, and later. There is much scientific and other material, including institute progress reports from the years Muller lived and worked in the Soviet Union. Also included is a fairly extensive file of both correspondence and printed articles relating to Lysenko and Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union in the late 1940s. The material is not yet fully cataloged.
James Sprigg Wilson
Papers, 1918–19, 7 items. Chief surgeon of the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia, 1918–19. Scrapbook, letters, photos of Siberia, lists of American army personnel, and clippings, all relating to the colonel's experiences in the AEF. Among his correspondents were William Sidney Graves, major general commanding the AEF in Siberia; Fred P. Manget, acting commissioner of the American Red Cross in Siberia; and Kenneth Lewis Roberts, the author, who served as a captain in the Siberian AEF in 1918–19.
Jonathan Williams (1750-1815)
Papers, 1738–1869, 7,197 Items. Merchant, soldier, and commandant of West Point. Includes letter from Princess E. R. Dashkova.
Lev Davidovich Trotskii (1879-1940)
Papers, 1922–57, 201 items. Russian revolutionary and author. Primarily correspondence and materials exchanged between Trotskii and the writer Max Eastman. Among the correspondents: Eliena Vassilyevna Krylenko (who became Eastman's wife), Albert Boni, Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaia (Lenin's wife), Maxim Lieber, Maurice Paz, Roger William Riis, Alfred Rosmer, Max Shachtman, Boris Souvarine, Joseph Usick Vanzler, Sara Weber, The Saturday Evening Pest, and Harcourt, Brace, and Co., publishers. Other holdings: Eastman's notes from his first talks with Trotskii in 1922–23, when he was preparing a book about Trotskii; Eastman's impressions after living 3 days in Trotskii's home in 1932; notes of a conversation with Mrs. Natalie Ivanovna (Sedova) Trotskii after an attack on Trotskii in Moscow; an interview with Trotskii about Soviet economic difficulties in 1932; information on Eastman's efforts to obtain permission for Trotskii to visit the U.S. in 1933; and Eastman's translation of Trotskii's The Revolution Betrayed. A 1957 note from Eastman explains the loss and recovery of his translation of Trotskii's life of Lenin. There are also printed materials on Trotskii's wife, his death, his writings, and Eastman's translations of his works, plus Trotskii's works A Weakening of Stalin or a Weakening of the Soviet (n.d.) and New Moscow Amalgam: Three Trials (1937). Finding aid available: http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/index.php?p=trotskii
Lewis Browne (1897-1949)
Papers, 1878–1949, 4,786 items. Author. His diary for 1935 covers a trip to the USSR. Draft article, "A Jew goes to Russia. Prologue," is dated 9 September 1926; another article, "Experiences in Russia," is undated. -- The Browne mss., 1878-1949, are the papers of Lewis Browne, 1897-1949, author, radio commentator, lecturer, and world traveler. -- Miscellaneous material deals with the twentieth century revolutionary figure, Lev Trotskii (a Browne correspondent), including notes by Lewis Browne about Trotskii and typescripts of an article about Natalia Ivanova (Sedova) Trotskii (Mrs. Lev Trotskii). There are two articles by Ludwig Lore, an American-Socialist-editor, about Trotskii's visit to the U.S. in March 1917. Of interest is also a leaf with possibly authentic signatures of Lev Trotskii and Alexandra Kollontai alongside a hen drawing. Angelica Balabanoff is among numerous correspondents. Other material relates to Russian/Slavic literature. Finding aid available: http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAA8872
LOCKHART, R. MSS.
The Lockhart, R. mss., 1906-1969, consist of the correspondence, writings and memorabilia of Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, 1887-1970, diplomat and writer.
After a brief stint as a rubber planter in Malaya, Lockhart joined the British Foreign Office and was posted as vice-consul to Moscow in 1912. He was named head of a special mission to the Bolsheviks in 1918 where he was soon arrested and imprisoned in the Kremlin, and later condemned to death, for the attempted assassination of Lenin. He was exchanged for the Russian Maksim Maksimovich Litvinov and returned to the diplomatic service, this time in Czechoslovakia and Central Europe, where he began his acquaintance with Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Jan Garrigue Masaryk and Edvard Beneš.
Lockhart also spent much of his time writing and publishing under a variety of pseudonyms even before the First World War. By 1929 he had retired from diplomacy to work full time as a journalist for Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard. His Memoirs of a British Agent, published in 1932, was based on his Russian experience and became a best seller.
During World War II Lockhart became Director-General of the Political Warfare Executive, coordinating all British propaganda against the enemy. The collection includes correspondence about these activities and samples of the propaganda used. After the war he left government service and resumed his writing career as well as lecturing and broadcasting; he had a weekly BBC broadcast to Czechoslovakia for over ten years. His writings were largely based on his interest and experiences in Malaya, Russia, and Czechoslovakia, and on his Scottish background.
The collection is organized into the following series: I. Correspondence; II. Writings; III. Foreign Office materials; and, IV. Miscellaneous. The correspondence is arranged chronologically, except for the eight folders of letters from Moura Budberg, Lockhart's Russian mistress. The writings are divided into books, articles, and lectures and are filed alphabetically within those divisions.
Among the miscellaneous materials are Russian safe-conduct passes, examples of Allied propaganda during World War II, a rose form Jan Masaryk's grave, postcards and photographs, and Russian internal bonds issued by the Kerensky government. -- Collection size: 3,500 items -- A box and folder list is available. A list of correspondents is available in the Library. http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/index.php?p=lockhrtrinv
Max Eastman (1883-1969)
Papers, 1892–1968, 4,096 items. Author, editor of the Masses, 1913–17. Literary manuscripts, correspondence, writings. Among the manuscripts are: "The Anatomy of a Dictator," n.d., about V. I. Lenin; notes on Lenin's character; "Stalin's Purposes," in draft with collected materials, n.d.; "Stalin's Russia and the Crisis in Socialism," n.d.; "What the Russians learn about us," 1945, collected notes on Russian relations with the U.S.; and his notes on personnel in the Russian War Relief Society, 1940s. Manuscripts written by others and collected by Eastman include: Alexander Barmine, on Russian policy in Europe; an offthe-record address by Jan Ciechanowski, Polish ambassador to the U.S., at a meeting of the Cooperative Forum in Washington, D.C, 2 June 1943, copy enclosed in a letter to Eastman of 12 July; Vladimir N. Petrov on the "Soviet Gold Rush," n.d., English and Russian versions, and his outline of a piece entitled "War between U.S. and U.S.S.R. sooner or later is inevitable," n.d.; Robert Minor, "What happened in Russia"; and Paul Wohl, "A Cagliostro of the Underworld or The Real Story of Soviet Agent [W.] Krivitsky," n.d. The extensive correspondence includes letters to or from his wife, nee Eliena Vassilyevna Krylenko, January 1924; Peter Berlinrut, August-October 1933; the author Julius Victor Stefan Epstein, October 1947; Charmion von Wiegand, a painter, December 1931 and February 1932; David Julievich Dallin, 8 and 23 November 1945; Eamon De Valera, August 1956; William Hazlett Upson, November 1941 and January 1942; Charles L. Tranter, December 1941; Robert Littell, December 1941; and Dmitri Fedotoff White, December 1941. Subjects discussed in these letters include Lenin, J. Stalin, the Soviet Union and its relations with the U.S., the Russian crown jewels, and the Russian War Relief Society. Other items: Eastman's incomplete translation of Lenin's "testament" and a supplement to it, 1922–23; a review of the International Publishers edition of Lenin's Collected Works, which Eastman called "Lenin Expurgated," n.d.; a report to Doubleday Doran publishers about Lenin's letters to his family, August 1936, a carbon copy; copy of concluding remarks on a sound track (Tzar to Lenin), omitted from a copy given to the Library of Congress; and a copy of a letter from Donald Ogden Stewart et al. to Mrs. Katherine Garrison (Chapin) Biddle discussing Soviet affairs (17 July 1939). Finding aid available: http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAC5512
Montgomery Evans (1898-1954)
Papers, 1918–52, 202 items. Book collector. Includes letter to him from the author Aleister Crowley, 28 November 1945, that discusses the Russians.
NIKOLAEVSKII MSS.
The Nikolaevskii mss., 1938-1944, are letters and papers extracted from books collected by Boris Ivanovich Nikolaevskii, 1887-1966, author. At the time of his death he was in charge of the Nikolaevskii collection of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. As a world renowned Russian revolutionary of pre-Revolutionary days, as an exile since the early 1920's in Germany, France and the United States, where he arrived in 1940, and as a scholarly writer of strong anti-Bolshevik convictions, he was perhaps one of the most representative and knowledgeable spokesmen for Menshevism. He was an arduous and indefatigable collector of materials on socialist and revolutionary movements and on "emigrations."
Among the correspondents in the collection are William Bloch, Bertha H. Mailly, James Oneal and Upton Beall Sinclair.
Included are two sketches from World's End by Upton Beall Sinclair--The "Gratin" and The Isles of Greece. -- Collection size: 21 items.
Paul Vories McNutt (1891-1955)
Papers, 1899–1951, 31,922 items. Includes letter, 27 July 1938, to him from Harry Ervin Yarnell, a naval officer, mentioning current Soviet affairs.
Powers Hapgood (1899-1949)
Papers, 1915–51, 4,286 items. Union organizer. Includes a permit from the Permanent Commission of Agricultural and Industrial Immigration for him to live in the autonomous industrial colony "Kuzbas" in Tomsk, Siberia, 24 July 1925; his work record from the People's Commissariat of Labor, July-November 1925; and a statement about Hapgood in the colony, 5 November 1925. All items in Russian.
Richard Wigginton Thompson (1809-1900)
Papers, 1837–99, 375 items. U.S. secretary of the navy. Volume 2 of his miscellaneous addresses contains a speech on Russian history delivered at the Eclectic Literary Society of the Indiana State Normal School in Terre Haute, 18 February 1882.
Robert Francis Byrnes (b. 1917)
Collection, 1856–1904, 1,255 items. Historian. Materials gathered for his biography Pobedonostsev (Bloomington, 1968). Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev (1827–1907) was a Russian university professor of law, tutor of Alexander III, senator, procurator of the Holy Synod, and the conservative eminence grise of the Russian court for many years. This collection contains photocopies, 8 vols., positive microfilm, and typescripts of letters in Russian and French to Pobedonostsev. Correspondents included Nikolai Barnov, Mrs. Anna Grigorevna (Snitkina) Dostoevskaia (Mrs. Fedor M. Dostoevskaia), Sergei Rachinskii, Sofia Rachinskii, Catherine Tiutchev, Mrs. Anna (Tiutchev) Aksakov, Mikhail Nikiforovich Katkov, Ol'ga Aleksieevna Novikova, and Sergiei Aleksandrovich Petrovskii. There are also 2 articles in English, 1 about Ol'ga Novikova ("Men and Women of the Day. 1900"), the other on Siberian gold fields ("I am once more on top") by Ernest Terah Hooley, a tsarist agent. Original manuscripts are in the Lenin Library in Moscow; microfilm negatives are in the Library of Congress. Finding aid available: http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/index.php?p=byrnes
Samuel Sidney McClure (1857-1949)
Papers, 1865–1952, 24,244 items. Includes letter, 26 September 1911, from Henry Green to McClure that talks of Russian-American relations; and a typescript entitled "Russia's responsibilty," April 1916, by Albert Grof Apponyi, a member of the Hungarian Parliament.
Schwartz mss.
ca. 1990-2001. 300 items. This collection consists of translations from Russian into English done by Marian Schwartz. Included in the collection are the final draft translations for Ballincourt Tales, The Book of Happiness, and Cape of Storms, by Nina Berberova; Lost in the Taiga: One Russian Family's Fifty-year Struggle for Survival and Religious Freedom in the Siberian Wilderness, by VasilyPeskov; The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II , by EdvardRadzinsky; and A Poet's World: Conversations with Joseph Brodsky, by Solomon Volkov. Several of the translations are accompanied by reviews of the English volumes and some of them also have a copy of the original Russian text used by the translator. Finding aid available: http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/index.php?p=schwartz
Slavic Manuscripts
Collection, 1817–1947, 34 items. Alexander I: certificate of promotion to major-general for Boris Poluektov, 1817; Nicholas I: promotion of Poluektov to lieutenant-general, 1826; Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin: "Pro drugoe," holograph, n.d., 4 pp., and "Lenin: opyt kharakteristiki," n.d.; Aleksei M. Remizov: "Iz knigi 'Zviezda nadzviezdnaia,'" n.d., holograph fragments; Ivan Bunin: "Neskol'ko slov angliiskomu pisateliu," n.d., holograph, 14 pp., and typed copy, and "0 Gor'kom," n.d., holograph, 1 p.; and ALS, 26 December 1919, of Gennadii V. Yudin, the merchant and book collector, thanking a doctor for helping his son (written from Eastern Siberia). Other materials.
Smith, W. J. mss
Papers of William Jay Smith (1918-2015), poet and translator of several languages including Russian. Collection is processed (except one box) and translations are arranged by language in the first series.
Solzhenitsyn/Rozsas mss
Letters between Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and Janos Rozsas (1926-2012).
Upton Beall Sinclair (1878-1968)
Collection, 1813–1967, 184 items. American author. Includes more than 50 letters, 1930–32, from Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein, plus other materials relating to the making of the film Thunder Over Mexico. There is also a telegram, 21 November 1931, to Sinclair from Iosif Stalin.
VISHNIAK MSS.
The Vishniak mss., 1921-1940, consist of the correspondence files of former Russian Socialist leader and author, Mark Veniaminovich Vishniak, 1883-1976, as editor of the Russian periodical Sovremennye Zapiski (Contemporary Review).
The collection was originally turned over to the Indiana University Archives by Vishniak in 1959. Since that time it has been consulted by several scholars of Russian literature, history, and philosophy, and parts have been reproduced or described in journals, dissertations, etc.
The files are arranged alphabetically by author, with copies of Vishniak's responses interfiled where appropriate. There is a list of the correspondents in the Vertical File. -- Collection size: 1,560 items.
Wendell Wilkie (1892-1944)
Papers, ca. 1938–45, ca. 200 of 500,000 items. American industrialist, anti-isolationist political leader, and Republican presidential candidate in 1940. Some items relate to his trip in 1941–42 when he visited the USSR and met with J. Stalin.
William Albert Wirt (1874-1938)
Papers, 1899–1957, 22,232 items. Educator. Includes letter, 10 September 1919, from him to Arnold B. Keller, copy, and letter, 13 August 1919, from Keller to Henry G. Hay, Jr. discussing the Russian Educational Club of Gary, Indiana.
William Edward David Allen (1901-1973)
Collection, 9th c-1972, ca. 150 items. Historian. Contains medieval Russian charters; a 17th c. copy of a Sbornik, in manuscript, of 5 16th–17th c. Russian chronicles, 440 pp., in 3 different hands; 77 bawdy folk tales collected by A. Afanas'ev, bound, not all of which were published in his collections; ALS, 27 April 1879, from Ivan Turgenev to Charles Tardieu, denying he is a French citizen; patent of hereditary nobility, 12 September 1720, of Catherine I; 17 gramoty (land grants), 1614–90; Georgian manuscript book of thanksgiving entitled Samadlobeli, 55 11., dated 26 July 1746, with 4 large and 4 small illustrations; Ajmayil, an Armenian collection of prayers, invocations, and Bible passages, 3 sheets, illustrated, 21 February 1204 (i.e., 1755 A.D.); Prince Sulkhan Saba Orbeliani (1658–1725), first dictionary of the Georgian language, 323 11. in 37 columns, an illustrated manuscript, 1724; handwritten and typed works on: the 4 rivers area in the Russian Civil War, 1918–19, Armenia and Georgia, and the Caucasus, in the years 1916–20, Kurds, Turkish Georgia, Anglo-Russian contacts, Ossetia (Osetiya) and the peoples of the northern Caucasus; correspondence and other material about the Ukraine, 1947–49, 1 box; 3 boxes of material on Turkestan; watercolors of military uniforms, 1788; and a carbon copy of Humphrey Higgins' translation of A. Tolstoi's Death of Ivan the Terrible.
WOLFSON MSS.
The Wolfson mss., ca. 1994-2002, consist of the papers of Laura E. Wolfson relating to her translations of works from Russian into English. Wolfson began her career as an interpreter and literary translator in the early 1990s. Her translation of Stalin's Secret Pogrom won the National Jewish Book Award for Eastern European Studies. Wolfson has interpreted for former First Lady Hillary Clinton and in 2003 became a freelance interpreter for the United Nations. -- Acquired: 2003. -- Collection size: 200 items. -- An inventory is available: http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/index.php?p=wolfsoninv
