Henry Ransom Center

Resources (13)

• Alexander Kerensky (1881-1970)

  Papers, 1917–68, 24 ft., 207 folders and 1 small box. Russian socialist and head of government in 1917. Collection includes:

  Materials and documents on 1917: Minutes of the fourth duma session; manuscripts of works by Kerensky; materials on Rodzianko, Victor Chernov and the Socialist Revolutionary Party, Nicholas II, Lenin, the Russian economy before October 1917, the army 1917, Kornilov, the German Foreign Office, etc.

  Materials, mss. and documents on earliest years through 1912: Manuscripts and English translations of works by Kerensky; materials on the Russo-Japanese War, Osvobozhdenie, Witte, terror organizations, etc.

  A. Kerensky's manuscripts, articles, and personal files: Kerensky's personal file "pro sebia"; file on "ideology"; manuscripts, letters to editors, clippings.

  Photographs, tapes, newspaper clippings: Photographs of Kerensky family and relatives (including Kerensky's father); transcripts of tapes; 2 records of Kerensky speaking Russian; clippings, including of reviews of Russia and History's Turning Point.

  Correspondence (mostly 1931–68): correspondents include M. Aldanov (Landau), Nina Berberova, Robert Browder, Doudoroffs, Fomichev, Frumkins, Helene Izwolsky, Juri Jelagin, Michael Karpovich, Dr. Kiffa and Brandt, Kirshner, Kurganoff, E. Lyons, V. Maklakov, S. Maximov, W. Nowikoff, Ter Pogossian, S. Soloveitchik, Frank and Victor Sosskices (?), B. Souvarine, Vladas Stanka (Stankevic), Sergei Vassiliev, M. Vishniak, Voronovich, Wyrouboff, V. Zenzinov.

  Correspondence (miscellaneous): A miscellaneous folder with assorted correspondence of interest, e.g., Robert Bruce Lockhart, Suzanne La Follette, Herbert Hoover, George V. Ivanoff, Odoevskaya, Krukoff-Angorsky, Struve, Vol'skii, Vladimir Nabokov, Roudneff, Weinbaum, Zetlin, Benensen, Deriugina, Laurent, Strumsky, Keating, Fedotoff, Cheremetieff, Stepun, Sidney Hook, Max Eastman, David Shub; other materials. Correspondence, university lectures; invitations to speak, write; course and outlines.

  Family correspondence and mss.: Letters to and from Gleb, Oleg, and Mrs. Therese Kerensky; excerpts from memoirs by Mrs. Olga Lvovna Kerensky; poems and short stories by Mrs. Nelle (?) Kerensky; unpublished, 283 pp., ms. by Gleb Kerensky, "Only One Freedom."

  Kerensky's personal business correspondence: Income taxes, bank statements, cancelled checks, appointment books, contract and correspondence with Duell, Sloane & Pearce and Meredith Press.

  Political organizational work among emigres: Correspondence and other materials regarding Narodnoe dvizhenie, Coordinating Centre of Anti-Communist Action, League for Free Russia, Union for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, American Committee, The Russian People's Movement. Correspondents include Kurganov, Voronovich, Abramowitch, Fedotoff, Roman Goul, Michael Karpovich, Konstantinovsky, Boris Nikolaevskii, Vishniak, Zenzinov, and others.

  On displaced persons and emigres: Correspondence regarding DPs, 1947–1953, and Russian emigres of Jewish origins.

  Depositions, testimonials, and unusual documents not subject to classification: Persons mentioned in these documents include Stalin, Boris P. Doudoroff, V. Emoukhvari, Jacob F. Frumkin, Iliodor, Anna Vyroubova (?), M. Iordanskii, Dr. L. Kaschtanoff, Georg Kossatsch, E. D. Kuskova, A. R. Lednicki, Lokhvitskii, Maklakov, Martianoff, Merezhkovsky, Somerset Maugham, Anna L. Podozerov (?), M. Terestchenko, Illja Trotzky, Sergius A. Vassiliev, Bertram D. Wolfe, B. Wyrouboff, Ivan Bunin, Victor Chernov, and others.

  Memorabilia: Alien registration card, Christmas cards, other items.

  Emigre publications: Issues of Novaia Rossiia, Za Svobodu, Borba, Golos Naroda, Biulleten', Dni, Posledniia Novosti.

  Kerensky's personal diary, handwritten, in Russian, 1941–42 and 1959–61, is also in the collection. Unpublished finding aid, compiled by Elena Ivanova, on which this description is based.

• Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

  Koester Collection, 1817–1900, ca. 350 items. Includes letter, 10 August 1904, of Maksim Gorkii concerning Poe, the American writer. Unpublished description (NUCMC 71–1908).

• Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966)

  Collection, ca. 1910–12, 2 vols. and correspondence. English scene designer and producer. Daybooks in part concern his production of Hamlet at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1912.

• Elias Tobenkin (1882-1963)

  Papers, 1905–63, 63 boxes and 25 file envelopes, plus 1 shelf of miscellanea. Russian immigrant writer and journalist, expert in Russian/German matters. Collection is uncatalogued at present, but a rough finding list is available.

• George Nathaniel Nash

  Papers, 1917–19, 1 box. British army officer. Detailed diary ("From Palace to Prison"), 18 January 1917–10 December 1919, of his military activity in Russia during the Revolution, culminating in his being taken prisoner and then released in exchange for Raskolnikov, lord high admiral of the Russian fleet, original typescript, 128 pp. + 13 pp. of preface and table of contents, in a looseleaf notebook together with 85 pp. of newspaper clippings, translations, etc.; carbon typescript with corrections of the diary; scrapbook containing 85 items, including a rare V. I. Lenin pamphlet (Say! What Are You!), official permits, paper money, visiting cards of dignitaries, and clippings; and a photograph album containing 158 photographs illustrating events and scenes discussed in the diary. Nash traveled widely during this time; places noted in the diary include the Russian southwestern front, Petrograd, Siberia, Vladivostok, Tiflis, Georgia, Vladikavkaz, and Moscow. The diary is unpublished.

• James H. “Jimmy” Hare Papers and Photography Collection, 1880-1930s

  1,128 lantern slides, 709 glass negatives, 333 nitrate negatives, 150 vintage prints, and 1,043 modern prints. Includes ca. 200 slides and photographs taken by James H. Hare (1856–1946) of the Russo-Japanese War. Also, an additional 92 stereographs in a separate collection titled "Russo-Japanese War through the stereoscope" (New York: Underwood & Underwood, 1904–1905).

• Nikolai Punin (1888-1953)

  Papers, 1915–36, 1 box. Poet. Includes 10 notebook diaries, correspondence, numerous love letters from Anna Akhmatova, and newspaper clippings.

• PEN. International writers' organization.

  Includes 3 typed letters from the group to Maksim Gorkii, dated 22 November 1926, 31 January 1933, carbon, and 14 March 1934, carbon.

• Poutiatine Family

  Correspondence, 1890s–1910s, 2 cartons and 1 box. Letters of the Countesses Vera, Jackie, and E. Poutiatine, nearly all in English, apparently written after moving from Russia to Great Britain. Also, some letters of their aunts Olga and May.

• Sir Maurice Baring (1874-1945)

  Papers, ca. 400 items. Diplomat, journalist, and author. He spent most of the years 1904–12 in Russia. Collection includes: diary for 1905–1906; 2 letters, typed, incomplete, from an unidentified author to Baring about conditions in Russia ca. 1918; correspondence from Aleksandr Ippolitovich Dmitriev-Mamonov, 31 items, 1909–23, M. Troubetzkoy, P. Ctentizon, Ludovic Naudeau, and Nicholas Popoff; and some translations into Russian.

• Stephen Graham (b. 1884)

  Papers, ca. 100 items. Traveler and writer. Includes typed manuscript, undated, entitled "Maxim Gorky," carbon copy, 2 pp.; notes, memoranda, and fragments, some about Russia, n.d., 38 pp.; and 68 letters to Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong (John Gawsworth), 1930–64.

• Tom Stoppard Papers 1939-2000 (bulk 1970-2000)

  149 document cases, 9 oversize boxes, 9 oversize folders, 10 galley folders (62 linear feet). The papers of this British playwright consist of typescript and handwritten drafts, revision pages, outlines, and notes; production material, including cast lists, set drawings, schedules, and photographs; theatre programs; posters; advertisements; clippings; page and galley proofs; dust jackets; correspondence; legal documents and financial papers, including passports, contracts, and royalty and account statements; itineraries; appointment books and diary sheets; photographs; sheet music; sound recordings; a scrapbook; artwork; minutes of meetings; and publications. The collection includes the manuscript screen play for the Russia House, based on the novel by John Le Carre. Include are the manuscript and typescript drafts, from ink holograph outlines through first drafts revised, through second drafts corrected, to final complete uncorrected text.Finding aid available: http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00179

• W. S. Crosley (1871-1939)

  Correspondence, 1917–20, 1 folder. Military attache at the Petrograd embassy. Letters of Walter S. Crosley and his wife Pauline to Mrs. McAlister Smith from Petrograd. Hers have been published as Intimate Letters from Petrograd (New York, 1920).