FEN, Elisaveta (JACKSON, Lydia; née ZHIBURTOVICH, Lidiia Vital'evna) (1899-1983) (2)
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Type of record: Archive
Title: FEN, Elisaveta (JACKSON, Lydia; née ZHIBURTOVICH, Lidiia Vital'evna) (1899-1983) (2)
Classmark: LRA/MS 1850
Date(s): 1880s-1981
Language: English; French; German; Icelandic; Russian
Size and medium: 5037 ff,; 2 vols; MS; TS; printed
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/653489
Collection group(s): Leeds Russian Archive
Description
[BOX 1] NOVELS (texts, notebooks): Christina: A Novel (1934) (unfinished) (fragments) /1/; The Last Cruise of the ["Gull"]/"Swallow" (1927) /2-5/; Strength and Weakness (1926) (unfinished) (also draft fragment (1927 (sic)) at back of /2/) (see also 1926 draft novel in notebook containing draft letters /476-477/) /6-7/.
STORIES: Original Stories / Original Stories in English (1926-1936) / Short Stories in English (1926-36-40) / Stories in English (wrappers & list of 17 titles, texts of 9 of which in MS 1394) /8-11/; The Bond (1934) (includes 1937 ["Prose Club"?] reports) /12-13/; Carita d'Amore (1936) (unfinished) /14-15/; The Crash (1935?) /16-17/; The Dream ("By Norman James" "Competition pseudonym") /18-19/; Her Only Adventure ("E Fen-Rayevsky") /20-22/; Nine Days (1940) /23-26/; Obsession (1935) (unfinished) /27/; Seduction (1936) (unfinished) /28-29/.
TRANSLATIONS (Plays): "Translations of Plays in my possession" (list of 12 titles,, texts of 7 of which in MS 1394) /30/; M Gorky (Gor'kii) "The Zykovs" (extract) /31-32/; V A Kaverin "A House on the Hill" (extract) /33-34/; C [i e S Ia] Marshak "The Twelve Months" (synopsis, extract) /35-37/; V V Shkvarkin "Another Man's Child" (synopsis, extract) (includes letter from J L Hodgkinson (Toynbee Hall), 1939) /38-42/; A N Tolstoi "Love – The Golden Book" /43-44/; [BOX 2] I S Turgenev "A Month in the Country" /45-46/.
TRANSLATIONS (Short stories) (unpublished): "Unpublished translations" (file cover) /47/; I Babel (I E Babel') "The Crossing of Zbruch", "The King" /48-49/; [F] Dostoevsky (F M Dostoevskii) "Netochka Nezvanova" (extract "The Childhood of Netochka") /50/; I Ilf (Il'f) & E Petrov "How Robinson was Created" /51/; V G Lidin "The Actress" /52/; R Slutskaia (?) "In Passing Through…" /53/; M M Zoshchenko "In a Tram", "Liquidating Illiteracy", "Medical Science and the Mind", "The Patient" /54-58/; report on suitability for translation of A Novikov-Priboy (A S Novikov-Priboi) "Tzusima" ("Tsusima") /59/.
TRANSLATIONS (Scientific): V Bechterev (V M Bekhterev) "On Reflex Epilepsy Provoked by Sound Stimuli" /60/; Y Y Trutovsky (Ia Ia Trutovskii) "The Development of Epilepsy under the Influence of Sound Stimuli (From the Clinic of P I Kovalevsky (Kovalevskii)" /61/.
TRANSLATIONS (Philosophy): V Soloviyov/Solovyov (V V Solov'ev) "The Philosophic/Philosophical Principles of Integral Knowledge" (3 versions) (1950s-1960s) /62-66/; [BOX 3] V S Solov'ev "Sobranie sochinenii", ed S M Solov'ev, E L Radlov, 2nd ed, vols 1-2 (SPb, [1911]) (name stamp of N N Berberova (cf /87/ on purchasing in Paris)) (vol 1, pp 250-406 source of /62-66/) /67-68/; "Extracts from Lectures on GODMANHOOD" /69/; lists of V S Solov'ev books /70-71/; reports on V S Solov'ev texts & works on him in English by A Bakshy, S L Frank/N Duddington, W H Dunphy, V V Zenkovsky /72-75/; report on and TS text of R F Taft "An Introduction to the Philosophy of Vladimir Solovyov: The Early Years and Theosophic Period" (Baghdad, [1956]) /76-77/; letters about /62-66/ from I T Ramsey (cf MS 1394/7392-7393) (to M Reeves (cf MS 1394/7406-7420), M Bonham Carter (Collins), R N Smart (5, 1962-1967) (cf MS 1394/7973-7983) /78-82/; readers' reports and response /83-86/; The New Atlantis Foundation & Solovyev/Solovyov Society correspondence with W Gordon Fraser, C A Eastgate, H Buss (cf MS 1394/3027-3028), H Rutherford (cf MS 1394/7699-7731), N B Glasberg (cf MS 1394/4001-4004) (also E Mayne lecture offprint, E Fen lecture TS, leaflets, appeals, meeting minutes) (26, 1950-1960, 1967) /87-121/.
DIARIES, AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL & LITERARY NOTES AND FRAGMENTS: "Dreams and Early Personal Notes" (1934-1945) /122-125/; Diary (1936-1938) /126-127/; "Meredith's Visits in London, 1961-64" /128-130/; "My Country Diary" (1967) /131-132/; "Notes for the Fourth Volume of Reminiscences (?!)" (1970) /133/; "September 192…" (1925) /134-135/; [BOXES 4-5] notebook pages with poems, list of books, subjects for plays (1927) /136/; "Various notes, personal impressions or for future books / Notes on Musical Instruments & Personal Notes, 1936-40" (1933-1956, 1967, 1973, 1978, nd) /137-177/.
EXTRACTS FROM LITERARY, PHILOSOPHICAL, PSYCHOANALYTICAL ETC PUBLICATIONS BY AND ABOUT: E D Agranovich, H l'Anson Fausset, W H Auden, M Baring, W Bedell-Smith, H Bergson (also S Freud, A Huxley), D Bonhoeffer, Lord Byron, V A Firsoff, J W von Goethe, Lord Hailsham, A E Housman, C G Jung, J Keats, P Larkin (also J M Barrie), M Laski, J Lill, C Morgan, M Muggeridge (also A Burgess), V V Nabokov, B Nicolson (also C Blakemore), K R Popper & J C Eccles, A S Pushkin, A D Sakharov, A C Swinburne, E Thomas, A K Tolstoi, L Watson, R West, G West, et al /178-213/.
DRAWING: P Bethell "Casa di Boccaccio" ("Il Buon Riposo", Corbignano, near Settignano) (cf MS 1394/2562) /214/.
CORRESPONDENCE. Letters etc from: [S A Clay] (nd) (cf MS 1394/3099-3103) /215/; C Dow (nd) (cf MS 1394/3500-3507) /216/; G Elliott (1963) (see also /814-815/ (cf MS 1394/3578-3682) /217/; Friends Service Coouncil (A Nike) (1929) /218-219/; A P Goudy (1928) /220/; Constance [Holt] (nd) /221/; T C Howarth (1938) (cf MS 1394/4395-4407, 6497-6498) /222/;
Elizabeth Jackson (11, 1927-1929, 1937) (see also /821-822/) (cf MS 1394/4541-4561) /223-233/; Richard Meredith Jackson (175, 1925-1930, 1932-1937, 1939, (1958), 1960-1962, 1964, 1967-1976) (see also /823-836/) (cf MS 1394/4562-4563, 4566, 4570, 4573-4574, 4580-4588) /234-423/; L Korovitskii ([1967]) /424/; J A R Pimlott (50, 1935-1937) (cf MS 1394/7104-7108) /425-474/; C Stephenson (1978) (cf /860-861/) (cf MS 1394/8352-8380) /475/.
CORRESPONDENCE. Draft & copy letters to: R M Jackson (44, 1926, 1933-1935, 1937, [1959]-1980, nd) (cf MS 1394/925, 4564-4565, 4567-4569, 4571-4572, 4575-4578 /476-541/; E Lund (1974) (cf MS 1394/ 5343) /542/; Max [Newman] (cf MS 1394/6269-6280) ([1934]) /543/; V Peace (1976) (see also /847A/) (cf MS 1394/6499-6523) /544/; M & W Stephenson (1974) (cf MS 1394/8384-8410) /545/; unidentified (2, nd) /546-547/.
ADDRESS BOOK & enclosures /548-570/.
[BOX 6] PHOTOGRAPHS. Albums of snapshots: Arcachon, Corsica, 1926-1927 /571/; Strand-on-Green, 1926, Northampton, 1929, Parpan (Switzerland), 1931 /572/; Arcachon, North Wales, Prague, Montmorency, London, 1926, Strand-on-Green etc , Cambridge, Northampton, Alfriston, 1927 /573/; [Mediterranean, Northampton, Cambridge etc], nd /574/; Haute Savoie, Talloires, Megève, Northampton, Cambridge, Lake District nd, Leningrad, Moscow, [1929], Cumberland, Aberdaron, Parpan, [Mediterranean], Majorca, French Pyrenees 1930-1931 /575/; French Pyrenees, 1931, Montana (Switzerland), King's Lynn, Cambridge, Roehampton, Russia, Spain, Gibraltar, Megève, 1932, Corsica, 1933, Austria, 1934, Parsenn (Switzerland),1936, Norway, [1935], Albania 1937, uncaptioned, nd /576/.
[BOX 7] PHOTOGRAPHS (cf MS 1394/11935q, 11936-12037). Prints, copy prints, negatives: portraits (some with relatives and friends), portraits of friends and colleagues (E K Balls, J Dennithorne, A Iastrebov, V Ivanova, R Kilby, E Soltau (Ternovskaia), N Speranskaia, G Svirskii et al), Russia, 1908-1924, nd /577-632/; portraits of mother, sister, brother, niece, cousins et al (for details of names etc cf MS 1394/1158-1851) (including during visits in 1929, 1932, 1958-1960, 1965-1966, 1972, 1979), Russia, France, [1880s]-1972 /633-689/; portraits (some with holiday acquaintances et al), Arcachon, London, Austria, Norway, Yugoslavia, Alps, Corsica, Italy (cf /214/), Oxford, "The Rowan", Bishop's Stortford, New York, Ashton Park, Yorkshire, etc, 1926, 1934-1939, 1954, 1963-1980, nd /690-730/; portraits (including studio portraits), 1950s-1970s /731-786/;
portraits of (some with): G Aitken, "The Rowan", 1967 (cf MS 1394/1867-2279) /787/; Allen family, Castle Cary, 1956, 1959 (cf MS 1394/2294-2315) /788-790/; Blair (George Orwell) cottage, Wallington, 1942 (cf MS 1394/6409-6432) /791-792/; Clay family, Bristol, "The Rowan", 1958, 1965, 1967 /793-797/; H H G Crisp, Oldrey Farm, Somerset, 1940 (also farmer's daughter, Jennifer) (cf MS 1394/3179-3187) /798-807/; R Davidson (also E Howarth), Georgia, 1972 (cf MS 1394/3232-3320, 4395-4407, 6497-6498) /808-810/; P M Donahue, Corsica, London, 1938, 1958 (cf MS 1394/3470-3497) /811-813/; G Elliott, "The Rowan", 1969 /814-815/; R & A Gabriel, USA, 1981 (cf MS 1394/3856-3895) /816-817/; G & K Gardiner, "The Rowan", 1971 (cf MS 1394/3906-3965) /818/; R Hamilton, "The Rowan", 1967 /819/; E Howarth, np, nd /820/; E Jackson, Anglesea, 1954 /821-822/; R M Jackson (including Dora Head engagement portraits, cf MS 1394/4589), Cambridge, London, Northampton, Corsica etc, 1926-1927, 1929, 1931, 1933 /823-836/; Sean & Ann Jackson, Cambridge, [1960] /837/; A A Kapitsa, np, nd (cf MS 1394/4633-4650) /838/;
Kopp family, Swaffham, 1955 /839-840/; J J Mallon, Whiteleaf, 1956 (cf MS 1394/5404-5464) /841-842/; H & A Meinhard, Newcastle, 1956 (cf MS 1394/5496-5507) /843-844/; O'Shaughnessy family, Norfolk, 1954 /845-847/; V Peace with children, "The Rowan", 1975 (cf MS 1394/6499-6523) /847A/; E Pleyer (Pleier), Gallipoli, Prague, etc, 1921, 1926, nd (cf MS 1394/7154-7229) /848-851/; V Pleyer (Pleier) (& E Hertrich), Germany, 1976 (cf MS 1394/7154-7229) /852-853/; M Reeves, Bratton, Granada, 1956, 1963 /854-855/; Schnetzler family, London, Knoll Castle, 1939, 1955 (cf MS 1394/7811-7829) /856-857/; G Seidmann, "The Rowan", 1965 (cf MS 1394/7847-7870) /858/; V N Speranskii, Paris, 1956 (cf MS 1394/8307-8322) /859/; C & C Stephenson, Washington, DC, "The Rowan", 1969, 1978 (also S Clay) (cf /475/) /860-861/; M & E Whitington, L Volossevich (Volosevich) et al, Bath, "The Rowan", 1973-1974, 1978 (cf MS 1394/8753-8754, 8893-8914) /862-868/; incompletely identified (Agnes & Gawain, Inez & Tom) & unidentified, London, "The Rowan", np, 1959, 1966, 1969, 1975,1979 /869-878/; "The Rowan" and surroundings, 1964-1965, 1967-1969, 1971-1972 /879-898/.
Provenance
Davidson, Rosemary (November 2012)
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