Lilly Library Manuscript Collections

WOLFSON MSS.

Return to Description

Box and Folder List

Box 1:
  • folder 1: The Last Diary of Tsaritsa Alexandra. Yale University Press, 1997. Agreement with YUP; various notes
  • folder 2: The Solzhenitsyn File. Edited by Michael Scammel. Six translators involved, including Laura E. Wolfson. Style sheet; various memos.
  • folders 3-13: Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. Yale University Press, June 2001
    • Working copy (2 folders)
    • Drafts (6 folders)
    • Correspondence (1 folder)
    • Notes, reviews, etc. (1 folder)
    • Notes for Laura E. Wolfson talk at University of Pennsylvania, 1/24/02 (1 folder)
  • folders 14-16: Berberova, Nina. Roquenval [novella] Translation by Laura E. Wolfson published in Grand Street, Winter 1997. Correspondence, etc.; photocopy of original Russian text; three drafts of translation
  • folder 17: Khurgina, Sarah. Storms and Khamsins of My Life. Translated from the Russian by Estella W. Lupescu (pseud. of Laura E. Wolfson). Notes and final manuscript.
  • folder 18: Klehr, Harvey, et al. The Soviet World of American Communism. Yale University Press, 1998. Correspondence and translation manuscript.
  • folder 19: Kolesnikov, Vladimir. [Excerpts from a travel guide] 3 drafts of translation by Laura E. Wolfson
Box 2:
  • folders 1-4: Polezhayev, Leonid. Proceed with Caution. Translated from the Russian by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick and Laura E. Wolfson. New York: Belka Publishing Co., 1996. Agreement; some correspondence with co-translator and editor; photocopy of original Russian; draft translation
  • folders 6-7: Radyshevsky, Dmitry. The Righteous Horseman. A family memoir commissioned by Radyshevsky. Original Russian text; final draft of Russian text; final draft English translation by Laura E. Wolfson
  • folders 8-11: Solovyov, Vladimir. "Family Secrets." Correspondence, 1995-1996; original Russian text; drafts of English translation
  • folder 12: Solovyov and Yelena Klepikova. Zhirinovsky: Russian Fascism and the Making of a Dictator. Translated by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick in collaboration with the authors. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1995. Notes and draft translation of excerpt done by Laura E. Wolfson.
  • folders 13-24: Topol, Edward. The Real Russian Tolstoy Never Used. Translated by Laura E. Wolfson. New York: Plume, 1997
    • Correspondence, contract (1 folder)
    • First draft (3 folders)
    • Various Russian and English texts (3 folders)
    • English - 1/29/96 - 2 copies (1 folder)
    • Miscellaneous drafts, fragments, etc. (1 folder)
    • Miscellaneous (1 folder)
    • "Murderer for Export" by Edward Topol; translated by Laura E. Wolfson. 2 drafts (1 folder)
    • "Translating a Killer" by Laura E. Wolfson - early draft (1 folder)
  • folders 25-27: Topol. China Lane. [translation never published?] Correspondence; original Russian ms.
  • folders 28-31: Washeleski, Michael. "A.M. Vasilevsky" [not for publication] Correspondence; various Russian and English fragments, 1995.

For more information about this collection and any related materials contact the Public Services Department, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405. Call (812) 855-2452 or send an email using our Ask a Question form.