TOLSTOI, Lev Nikolaevich (1828-1910) (4)

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LETTERS to Emile Joseph Dillon (1854-1933) (chiefly concerning L N Tolstoi, with E J Dillon notes) from (also some draft letters from E J Dillon to): H F Battersby (Prevost Battersby) (3, 1890?) /1-4/; P I Biriukov (1890) /5/; G Chertkov (7, 1899-1903, nd) /6-12/; V G Chertkov (2, 1891, nd) /13-15/; N N Ge ((1891) /16-17/; A Glove ("New Review") (1891) /18-20/; J Gluson ("Daily Telegraph") (4 telegrams, 1892) /21-25/; I I Gorbunov (Gorbunov-Posadov) (1891) /26-27/; G G Harrap (2, 1901) /28-29/; [?] Harris (S S McClure?) (1890) /30-31/; W Heinemann (to H F Battersby) (3, 1890) /32-35/; [?] Levasheva /36/; J Merry Le Sage (1890) /37-38/; M K Marchenko (2, 1890, nd) (also copy of L N Tolstoi letter to M K Marchenko (1890); M K Marchenko translation into Russian of Shelley 'Lines'; draft of M K Marchenko satirical tale) /39-44/; E I Popov ([1891]) /45-48/; [?] [Richardson] (1895) /49/; W Robertson Nicoll ("Bookman") (2, nd) /50-51/; Z S[?] (picture postcard with V S Solov'ev portrait) (1902) /52/; A S Suvorin (1892) (also copies of L N Tolstoi letters to E J Dillon (2, nd)) /53-57/; T L Tolstaia (2, 1890-1891) (also list of biographical questions addressed by E J Dillon to L N Tolstoi) /58-62/; [L N Tolstoi] (envelope inscribed "Tolstoy Letter from to me introducing Creelman. Sent original to Hutchinson, 30 July 1934") (also draft letters from E J Dillon to L N Tolstoi (2, 1892) and P G Ganzen (1892)) /63-67/; M S Urusova (1901) /68-69/; V A Verkhovskaia (2, 1930) (also E J Dillon draft replies) /70-76/.

LETTERS from V S Solov'ev to: A V Alekhin (nd) (unsent?) /77-78/; L N Tolstoi ([1892]) (also "A few words of introduction to Solovieff's letter") /79-82/. LETTER from S Iu Vitte to G D I[?] (nd) /83/.

M KUTUZOV-TOLSTOI: cutting of article about his life in Eire from "Daily Telegraph [...]", 1 September 1960 /84/.

P A STOLYPIN (1862-1911): Nicholas II award to P A Stolypin of Order of Belyi Orel (cutting from "Novoe vremia", 1 April 1909) /85/; E J Dillon notes and draft articles for "Daily Telegraph", 1911 & nd /86-91/.

S A TOLSTAIA (1844-1919): cuttings about her death from "New York Herald" & "New York Times", 15 & 17 November 1919 /92-95/.

L N TOLSTOI (1828-1910): "'Khodite v svete, poka est' svet'[:...]" (nd) (MS copy) (also preface to E J Dillon translation signed by L N Tolstoi) /96-98/; "Khristianskoe uchenie", 2nd ed (Christchurch, 1900) (Izdaniia "Svobodnogo slova", 10) (also details of 1898 English translation) /99-100/; ["Kreitserova sonata"] "Posleslovie k Kreitserovoi sonate" ([1890]) (MS copy with V G Chertkov note that blue-pencil cuts made on L N Tolstoi's instructions) /101/; "Kreitserova sonata: Polnoe izdanie s poslesloviem" (Berlin, [1900s]) /102/; "A Russian religious sect: Letter from Count Tolstoy", "The Times Weekly Edition", 25 October 1895 /103q-104q/; "The Famine in Russia", "Daily Telegraph", 30 January & 18 February 1892 (also cuttings reflecting the controversy about the authenticity of L N Tolstoi's letters: "Standard", 23 February 1892; "Daily Telegraph", 24 February 1892; "Moskovskie vedomosti", 12, 15, 24 March & 21 August 1892; "Grazhdanin", 12 March 1892) /105qq-113qq, 114q-122q/.

E J Dillon: "Count Leo Tolstoy" (MS draft and TS of article on L N Tolstoi's early life), nd /123-125/; "Count Leo Tolstoy" (galley proof of fragment of biography), nd /126q/; "Count Tolstoy: Patriarch's Daily Life", "Daily Telegraph", 9 May 1907 (cutting) /127q/; "Is Count Tolstoy a Christian?" (incomplete galley proofs of article), nd /128q-129q/.

E J Dillon: notes (many fragmentary and including extracts from his earlier articles) for his "Count Leo Tolstoy: A New Portrait" (London, 1933) (mostly grouped (not always consistently) under headings such as "Anecdotes", "Chronology"/"[...] Chronology of my articles on", "Contemporary Writers on Tolstoy", "Kreutzer Sonata", "My characteristic of Tolstoy", "My negative criticism of him", "Relations with Tolstoy", "Religion/Religious opinions", "Teaching", "Tolstoy and French Literature", "Tolstoy characteristics & contrasts", "Vegetarianism", "Witte and Tolstoy") /130-180/.

PRINTED MATTER: V P Burenin "Kriticheskie ocherki" (on "Kreitserova sonata"), "Novoe vremia", 16 March 1890 /181q-182q/; R Doumic, "Les idées du Comte Tolstoï sur l'art", "Revue des Deux Mondes" (Paris), 15 May 1898 /183/; V Lee, "Tolstoy and Prophet [...]", "North American Review" (), 524-541 /184-185/; H F Prevost Battersby "The Tolstoi Memorial", "Morning Post", 4 April 1908 (also 2 unsigned articles: "Tolstoi's New Comedy" ["The Fruits of Enlightenment"], "Manchester Guardian", 17 November 1890; "Tolstoy's Eightieth Birthday", "The Times", 30 March 1908) /186q-188q/; E R Stamo "L N Tolstoi i evrei", "Novoe vremia", 8 January 1911 (includes 1907-1908 letters to E R Stamo from L N Tolstoi & N N Gusev) /189q-190q/; I Teneromo (I B Fainerman) "L N Tolstoi o evreiakh" (SPb, 1908) /191/; [L N Tolstoi] "Letters from Tolstoi [to E H Schmitt]", "Nation", 17 & 24 February 1926 /192-193/; A Zenger "U Tolstogo", "Rus'", 15 July 1904 /194q/; [?] "Mit I J Repin in Jasnaja Poljana", "Montagsblatt der St Petersburger Zeitung", 6 December 1910 /195q-196q/. Cuttings about L N Tolstoi (including reports of visits to him by Cesare Lombroso and unnamed English Tolstoyans, and a talk in Berlin by T L Tolstaia) from German newspapers (also related cuttings from Russian newspapers), 1894-1925 (197q-198q, 199-200, 201q-202q, 203-205, 206q-215q).

[105qq-113qq, 114q-122q housed in Stack 1/001/Plan chest 2/15. Other q items housed in large box Stack 1]

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Sotheby's (ex Edmund Dillon) (July 1994)

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