NABOKV-L post 0018157, Thu, 9 Apr 2009 18:23:20 -0700

Dr. Kurt Johnson (co-author of Nabokov's Blues and other articles involving Nabokov's science) has donated his extensive Archives on Nabokov and Nabokov's science to the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera at the University of Florida, Gainesville, where he is associated with the Center and the Florida State Collection of Arthropods, which now the largest collection of butterflies in the world.  The Archive will be shipped to Gainesvilles as of/during May 2009.  Kurt continues to live in New York City.
 
An itemized list of the Archive's contents is below, with contact information for the McGuire Center re: any future needs for access and use by scholars.  Kurt, Dubi Benyamini, and Zsolt Balint are also gradually building a synoptic reference collection of Nabokov's world blues at the McGuire Center.  Extensive material at the American Museum of Natural History, from Kurt's tenure there, is generally not available to the public as the Lepidoptera collection there has generally been moth-balled due to lack of staff.  DNA samples of all available Nabokov's blues worldwide were collected by Kurt, Benyamini, Balint and others, over the last eight years and are part of a forthcoming study; this DNA material is permanently with Dr. Naomi Pierce at Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology. 
 
Below is a detailed itemization of the Archive being sent to Gainesville.
 
 
Dr. Kurt Johnson:  NABOKOV ARCHIVE
Donated to McGuire Center (Lepidoptera), University of Florida, Gainesville
 
Contact info: jmiller@flmnh.ufl.edu, asourakov@flmnh.ufl.edu, gaustin@flmnh.ufl.edu, tcemmel@flmnh.ufl.edu, heppnej@doacs.state.fl.us
 
BOX 1
 
Nabokov’s Blues:  Reviews and Articles &
Nabokov’s Butterflies:  Reviews and Articles--
 
Redweld #1
Nabokov’s Blues:  Reviews and Articles
Mostly originals
 
New York Times Science Times and The Arts Sections
       Centenary articles (copies and originals)
Washington Post (re: Top 10 Book, 2000)
HMS Beagle (re: Top 10 Book, 2000)
Booklist
New Yorker
Book Forum
American Scientist
McGraw-Hill Promos
Zoland Books Printed Promos
New Yorker
Chicago Tribune
Seattle Times
Natural History (advt.)
Harvard Review
Nabokov-on-line
Zoland Books Website
New York Review of Books
Cleveland Plain Dealer
San Francisco Chronicle
News of Lepidopterists Society (advt.)
National Geographic.com
American Entomologist
Suite101.com
Massachusetts Butterflies
Publishers Weekly Starred Review\
Connection.com
The Sciences
Boston Globe website
Nature Conservancy Magazine
The Nabokovian
 
Redwelds #2 A,B & C
Nabokov’s Blues:  Reviews and Articles
Mostly originals
 
Times Literary Supplement
Southern Lepidopterists Society
Linnaean Society
New Republic
Scientific American
San Francisco Chronicle
New York Times.com
Barnes and Noble.com
Featured in the Media (amazon.com)
Harvard Magazine
University of Wisconsin Pointer
HMS Beagle
Nature
A Common Reader
Review
Mid-State Poetry Towers
News of Lepidopterists Society
Washington Post
New Criterion
Whole Earth Review
Tropical Lepidoptera
Science
www.science.org
New York Review of Books
The Sciences
Lancet
Review Quotes—McGraw-Hill
New York Times Book Review
Amazon.com
American Butterflies
Wall Street Journal.com
London Review of Books
Lepidoptera News
Nature
Boston Globe (cover issue)
Lepidopterists News Centenary Tribute to Nabokov
American Scientist
International Herald Tribute (by Coates)
New York Times—New and Noteworthy Paperbacks
New York Times—general and Book Review
News of Southern Lepidopterists Society
 
Redweld #2 A
Nabokov’s Blues:  Reviews and Articles, continued
Mostly originals
 
Lepidopterists News (advt.)
Nature Conservancy magazine
Darien Connecticut Times
Lepidoptera News article by Dr. John Heppner
“Forthcoming Books” from News of Lepidopterists Society
Natural History, Editor’s Note on centenary
University of Florida Explore
Books Unlimited (UK)
Lepidoptera News (reprinting of S. J. Gould, Vera’s Butterflies piece)
Natural History magazine, centenary article by Johnson and Boyd
Lepidoptera News, by K. Johnson on Nabokov’s Neotropical legacy
Natural History, article by Shoumatoff on Russian butterflies legacy
American Ethical Union Dialogue magazine
Publisher’s Weekly special feature on Nabokov’s Blues
Washington Post
The New Republic
Boston Globe cover feature
Vanity Fair
National Wildlife
News of Lepidopterists Society (Centenary Tribute)
Natural History (Johnson and Boyd) originals
 
 
Redweld #3
Nabokov’s Butterflies—Reviews and Articles
 
Books in Brief, New York Times
Nature
Atlantic Monthly
Robert Michael Pyle—Draft of Nabokov’s Butterflies
Introduction 
 
BOX 2
 
(2) Vera’s Butterflies; (2) Centenary articles by or about
other authors, (3) Karner Blue centenary environmental issues (i)
 
 
Redweld #4
Vera’s Butterflies— Reviews and Articles
 
Stephen J. Gould—Draft Article for Vera’s Butterflies
 
Vera’s Butterflies—original color xeroxes given to Kurt Johnson by Sarah Funke
 
Vera’s Butterflies Introduction—copies
 
Vera’s Butterflies Introduction—drafts
 
 
Redweld #5
Miscellaneous other Centenary Year, or Other, Articles
Mostly originals
 
International Herald Tribune—Pinning Nabokov’s Prose to His Science
 
Alex Shoumatoff—Russian Blood, serialized New Yorker article(s)
 
Lo’s Diary—New York Observer
 
New York Observer—Nabokov’s Pale Ghost
 
Nabokov—Brian Boyd in Bloombury Review
 
University of Florida—McGuire Center Announcement
 
 
Redweld #6
Articles by, or about, other Nabokov-related authors, or
incompleted/unpublished drafts:
 
Robert Dirig:  Draft of “Theme in Blue”
 
Gibeon and Parker:  The Achievements of Vladmir Nabokov
 
Robert Michael Pyle:  Intro. in American Scholar to Nabokov’s Butterflies
 
New York Times article on Stacy Schiff
 
Miriam Rothschild:  1978 Nabokov Article
 
Robert Dirig:  A Karner Blue Adventure, and cover letter
 
Poems in Hungarian:  Zsolt Balint
 
Letters from Zsolt Balint with hand painted letterheads
 
Robert Michael Pyle:  Resurrection Ecology/ Xerces Blues
 
Dieter Zimmer:  re: “Mimicry” from Guide to Nabokov’s Butterflies and Moths 2001
 
Robert Michael Pyle:  NY Times article re: Monarchs and other conservation issues
 
Robert Dirig:  Draft of Nabokov’s Rainbow
 
Robert Michael Pyle:  Introduction to Nabokov’s Butterflies, as published
 
Kurt Johnson:  ms., short never-completed article on an incomplete paper by Nabokov “On the male genitalia of Hemiargus hanno Stoll and huntingtoni Comstock, with two figures” evidently meant to be collaborative short note by/between Nabokov and Comstock
 
John de Cuevas—A life with Lycaenids—Naomi Pierce goes beyond Nabokov.
Harvard Magazine?
 
Alex Shoumatoff in Natural History on Jamaican butterflies named by Russians, his father, Nabokov etc.
 
Jeffrey Glasberg in North American Butterflies on Nakokov’s Blues in Florida
 
Robert Dirig:  Theme in Blue, as published
 
Stephen Blackwell:  Draft: The Quill and the Scapel: Nabokov’s Art and the Worlds of Science
 
 
Redwelds 7-10
Centenary Articles—Karner Blue
other items re: Karner Blue
 
 
Redweld #7
Articles and Correspondence
 
Karner Blue—News of Lepidopterists Society article
Karner Blue—Boston Globe article
Karner Blue—Letter from Nabokov to Wool (copy)
Karner Blue—Nabokov-on-line article
Karner Blue—Southeast Pennsylvania North American Butterfly Assoc. article
Karner Blue—New York Times article re: Karner Blue and Wilton, New York
Karner Blue—Karner Blue Update in News of Lepidopterists Society
Karner Blue—faxes re: southern range extensions
Karner Blue—New York Times (original and copy)
Karner Blue—correspondence with Karner Blue specialist Ann Swengel
Karner Blue—centenary program by Save the Pine Bush
Karner Blue—conservation, centenary Press Releases
Karner Blue—Ohio Lepidopterist article
Karner Blue—Lepidoptera News—Johnson: Journey to Karner, NY
 
Karner Blue Environmental Issues—
 
Karner Blue Conservation Protocols—re: New York Protected Lands— in NY Courts:
 
Final Environmental Impact Statement(s), City of Albany, on behalf of Karner Blue
 
Markups/drawings—Karner Blue habitat characterizations, New York Protected Sections
 
 
Redweld #8
Karner Blue Environmental Issues, continued
 
Final Environmental Impact Statement(s), Developers Proposals, on behalf of business developers
 
 
BOX 3
 
(1) Karner Blue centenary environmental issues, cont., (2) Nabokov’s science, (3) Centenary year events (programs, announcements etc.)
 
 
Redweld #9
Karner Blue Environmental Issues, continued
 
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service:  Comprehensive Recovery Program for the Karner Blue
Technical Agency Draft 2001
 
Comprehensive Butterfly Supporting Plant Plan presented to the New York Parks Department in relationship to Lupine (Karner Blue foodplant) replanting program initiated at New York’s Marine Park by Johnson, Opler etc.   Lupine replanted for several years with consultation of Drs. Kurt Johnson, Paul Opler (formerly head of Endangered Species Dept., U.S. Fish and Wildlife) etc.  1999-2000 forward
 
“Karner Blue Backgrounder” prepared for New York Parks Dept. by Dr. Kurt Johnson
re: proposals for Lupine planting, other Karner Blue related activities.  1999-2000 forward
 
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service:  CD re: Comprehensive Recovery Program for the Karner Blue
 
Maps and Supportive Plan Data for Karner Blue:  Preplanting of Lupine in NYC’s Marine Park
 
 
Redweld#10
Blues-related Events Done by Kurt Johnson (or others), Centenary Year, programs and other materials
 
New York City:  North American Butterfly Association (advertisements/programs)
 
Brooklyn, Brooklyn Community Bookstore (advertisements/programs)
 
Puffin Foundation (New Jersey) (advertisements/programs)
 
New York Audubon Society (advertisements/programs)
 
Save the Pine Bush (Albany) (advertisements/programs)
 
New York Ethical Society, Creative Enterprise Program—Johnson, Coates, Funke
(advertisements/programs)
 
American Ethical Union, National Meeting (advertisements/programs)
 
Brooklyn Ethical Society—Johnson, Funke (advertisements/programs)
 
Harvard Museum (Museum of Comparative Zoology) (advertisements/programs)
 
Harvard Museum (Museum of Comparative Zoology) (slide list and commentary)
 
National Meeting of the Lepidopterist’s Society (handout)
 
Combined Monarch/Karner Blue survival events/ programs
 
 
Redweld#11
File Folders re: Nabokov’s science:
Nabokov Scientific Publications:
scientific publications by Nabokov
Scientific publications by Johnson, Balint, Benyamini etc. re: Nabokov’s blues
 
Johnson, Balint and Whitaker in Nabokov Studies
 
Johnson in Nabokov Studies
 
Emilio Balletto Scientific Publications re: Nabokov’s blues
 
Conservation of Monarchs and other butterfly conservation issues:  New York Times &
The Economist
 
Conservation of Miami Blue, Cyclargus Nabokov, North American Butterfly Association
 
Published Note, New of Lepidopterists Society re: Nabokov’s Blues Argentine Expedition
 
Conservation of Monarchs and other butterflies: North American Butterfly Association
 
Conservation:  Articles in Lepidoptera News
 
Conservation:  Articles in News of Lepidopterists Society
 
 
Redweld#12
Centenary year events (programs, announcements, press etc.)
 
Horowitz Booksellers
American Literature Association (text of verbal presentation by Kurt Johnson)
PMLA program
New York Public Library Exhibit
Cornell Centenary Festival
Nabokov New York Town Hall Event
 
 
Redweld#13
Correspondence
 
Kurt Johnson correspondence with Dmitri Nabokov re: Vera’s Butterflies
Kurt Johnson correspondence with Dmitri Nabokov re:  Father’s Butterflies
Kurt Johnson correspondence with Dmitri Nabokov (general)
Kurt Johnson correspondence with President of American Museum of Natural History re: Centenary Year
Kurt Johnson emails and other correspondence with other Lepidopterists
Kurt Johnson correspondence with Stephen Jay Gould
Kurt Johnson correspondence with Julian Salazar
Kurt Johnson correspondence re: Karner Blue issues
Kurt Johnson correspondence re: Atlantic Monthly issue
Kurt Johnson correspondence with Gerardo Lamas
Kurt Johnson correspondence with cartoonist Gary Larson
Kurt Johnson correspondence with Zsolt Balint (hand water colored letterheads by Balint)
 
 
BOX 4
 
Nabokov’s Blues—by Johnson and Coates:  preparation and materials
 
Redweld #14
 
Drafts and Notes re: Chapters
Partial Chapters
Incomplete Chapters
Edited Chapters
 
Nearly Completed but Unused Chapters
when book was cut from 18 to 14 chapters
 
Diskettes of same (as available, and/or found)
 
Redweld #15
 
Galley Proofs (partial?)
 
Redweld #16
 
Itemization of quotations, and word counts re: same per original publications of Nabokov
Itemization of diacritical markings on foreign words
Review Photos from B. Boyd’s works
Originals of eventual Nabokov’s Blues book illustrations
Mockups and Layouts of same
 
Xeroxes of reviews, post-publication circulated between Zoland and the authors.
 
 
BOX 5
 
Miscellaneous Books about Nabokov or by Nabokov
(note:  Kurt Johnson has kept copies of several key publications he might need for future reference, but those below are uniques or extras)
 
General Bibliography of Nabokov:  Gale Literary Database
Lolita
Issues of Nabokov Studies
Miscellaneous Russian publications on Lepidoptera received
During centenary year
Ex Symposium, Nabokov issue
Tajan
Neotropical Blue Butterflies (Johnson, Balint, Benyamini) (Univ. of Wisconsin Museum of Natural History)
The Butterflies of Israel (Hebrew) by Dubi Benyamini
Rothschild’s Reserves
Vera, S. Schiff
Vera’s Butterflies, Horowitz Booksellers
Vladimir Nabokov video, Cineteve, France
Guide to Nabokov’s Butterflies and Moths, Dieter Zimmer (first version)
Nabokov/Wilson Letters
Nabokov’s Butterflies, Boyd and Pyle
Butterflies of Hispaniola (with reference to Nabokov Caribbean taxonomy)
Butterflies of Chile (the modern guide: with references to Nabokov-related new and old species)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

 

 




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