All items in this checklist are from the Vladimir Nabokov Archive in the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, which is located in The New York Public Library's Humanities and Social Sciences Library.

SESSION 1: Early Life and Writings

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Image 1. Vladimir Nabokov. Genealogical chart. Holograph manuscript, c. 1947.

Image 2. Vladimir Nabokov. [Poems]. Holograph notebook, St. Petersburg, August–September 1917.

Image 3. Vladimir Nabokov. [Poems]. Holograph notebook, April 1920–July 1921.

Image 4. Vladimir Nabokov. Chess problems and poems. Holograph notebook, Crimea, February 1919–London, June 1919.

Image 5. V. Sirin [Vladimir Nabokov]. [Poems]. Holograph notebook, January–October 1923.

Vladimir Nabokov. Metrical schema in a holograph notebook, Summer 1918.

Vladimir Nabokov. "Poems." Album of clippings from various newspapers, compiled by Elena Ivanovna Nabokov, 1923–24.

SESSION 2: Nabokov as Translator

Vladimir Nabokov. Introduction to Mary. Holograph manuscript, signed and dated January 9, 1970.

Vladimir Nabokov? Sketch for jacket design of King, Queen, Knave. Pen-and-ink drawing, ca. 1967.

Vladimir Nabokov. "Glory." Typescript draft, translated by Dmitri Nabokov, with Vladimir Nabokov's holograph corrections, additions, and deletions, and dated and signed by him, Montreux, 1970.

Vladimir Nabokoff-Sirin. Camera Obscura. Translated by Winifred Roy. London: John Long, 1936. Nabokov's copy, with his holograph interlinear retranslation.

Vladimir Nabokov. Hand-drawn map showing Kolberg, on the Wolziger See. In: Vladimir Nabokoff-Sirin. Despair. Translated from the Russian by the author. London: John Long, 1937.

Photographer unknown. Portrait of Vladimir Nabokov, Berlin, 1925, with Nabokov's embellishments.

SESSION 3: Lectures on Literature

Vladimir Nabokov. Diagram of the "ladies' part" of a sleeping car, such as Tolstoy's Anna Karenina would have ridden in, from Nabokov's holograph and typescript notes for his lectures on Anna Karenina, 1950–1959.

Vladimir Nabokov. Drawing of the beetle into which Gregor Samsa metamorphoses. In: Franz Kafka. The Metamorphosis. Translated by A.L. Lloyd. New York: Vanguard Press, 1946. Nabokov's copy, with his holograph annotations and retranslations.

Vladimir Nabokov. Map of Dublin. Drawing in his holograph and typescript notes for his lectures on James Joyce's Ulysses, ca. 1950.

SESSION 4: Nabokov's Passion for Butterflies

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Image 1. Vladimir Nabokov. "Speyeria." Handmade traveling field guide, with illustrations cut from Holland's The Butterfly Book (1933) and Nabokov's holograph annotations in pencil, 1962?

Image 2. Plate from W.J. Holland. The Butterfly Book: A Popular and Scientific Manual, describing and depicting all the butterflies of the United States and Canada. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1931. Vladimir Nabokov's copy, with his holograph annotations throughout.

Image 3. Vladimir Nabokov. Glassine envelopes for butterfly transportation, with holograph notes, 1952–56.

Image 4. Vladimir Nabokov. Notes for Butterflies of Europe. With 83 plates illustrating all known European species of diurnal Lepidoptera with their main races, systematically arranged and annotated by Nabokov, 1960–65.

Image 5. Vladimir Nabokov. "Notes on the Morphology of the Genus Lycaeides: On the Evolution of Wing Patterns." Scrapbook with holograph pen-and-ink diagrams and notes, 1943–48?

Image 6. Vladimir Nabokov. Itineraries for butterfly hunting, Nebraska and Wyoming, Summer 1953, and New Mexico, June–July 1954. Holograph notes.

Photographer unknown. Portrait of Vladimir Nabokov at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1945.

Special pass for "Mr. V. Nobokov" to the American Museum of Natural History. Issued New York City, January 1, 1941.

SESSION 5: An Overview of Nabokov's Major English-language Literary Works

Vladimir Nabokov. Nikolai Gogol. Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1944.

Vladimir Nabokov. Bend Sinister. New York: Henry Holt, [1947].

Vladimir Nabokov. Autograph letter draft to Allen Tate. Pencil on card, [April 1947].

Vladimir Nabokov. "Notes on the Morphology of the Genus Lycaeides: On the Evolution of Wing Patterns." Scrapbook with holograph pen-and-ink diagrams and notes, 1943–48?

Vladimir Nabokov. Holograph notes, including notation that he has completed Lolita, dated December 6, 1953.

Vladimir Nabokov. Notes on the Swedish translation of Pnin. Holograph notes in a Cornell University Examination Book in the hand of Véra Nabokov, ca. 1958.

Vladimir Nabokov. ["Pale Fire"]. Holograph notes and drawings on index cards, 1957–62.

Vladimir Nabokov. Notes for a description of the Russian version of the game of Scrabble. From Nabokov's holograph notes, on six index cards, for Ada, c. 1966.

Vladimir Nabokov. "Transparent Things." Typescript, with Nabokov's holograph corrections, and notes from the editors, signed and dated April 1, 1972.

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