Collections : [Rare Book & Manuscript Library]

The collection includes copies of official communiques sent and received by the Russian Imperial Embassy in London for the period 1886-1890 and 1919-1922; copies of reports forwarded by E.V. Sablin to the Council of Ambassadors in Paris, for the period 1922-1937; correspondence grouped around specific subjects; "case files" containing letters from and on behalf of individual Russian emigres wishing to enter Great Britain or to adjust their immigrant status; and letters received by E.V. Sablin and his wife Nadezhda Ivanovna from various persons, together with carbon copies of their replies. The most voluminous correspondence is between E.V. Sablin and V.A. Maklakov, V. Dobuzhinskiĭ, Joseph P. Kennedy, Aleksandr F. Kerenskiĭ, Vladimir V. Nabokov, Fedor I. Shali︠a︡pin, Petr and Gleb Struve, Adri︠a︡na V. Trykova-Williams etc. The remainder of the collection consists of manuscripts of articles and speeches both by Sablin and by others; public statements issued by Sablin in mimeograph form; miscellaneous mimeo material; clippings from both the Russian emigre press and British and French newspapers of articles by and about Sablin; as well as miscellaneous clippings, books, booklets, leaflets, performance programs, newsletters, Russian language newspapers published in England, photographs and several drawings and watercolor sketches.

The papers consist primarily of the manuscripts of books (including "Witte"), articles, and lectures by V.K. Korostovet︠s︡. There are one or two letters each from Dmitriĭ Mendeleev, Maksim Gorḱiĭ, Pavel Skoropadskiĭ, Boris Pilńi︠a︡k, Konstantin Pobedonost︠s︡ev, Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh, Rudyard Kipling, John Maynard Keynes, Pavel Mili︠u︡kov, and Lewis Mumford.