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FRM: Don Johnson
In re Peter Cowlam's query: Dieter Zimmer's excellent list of VN's
"Homes and Haunts" on ZEMBLA yields the following:
1919 (from June): father rents apartment at 55 Stanhope Gardens, South
Kensington, London
1919 (from October 1): enrollment at Trinity College, Cambridge; rooms
at Great Court R6 (=staircase R, set 6)
Quoting Peter Cowlam <petercowlam@ONETEL.NET>:
> I wonder, would that be the Elm Park Gardens off the Fulham Rd, here?
>
> http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl
>
> Best wishes, Peter Cowlam
>
>
> From: John Liesveld
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 1:17 PM
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] VN in London?
>
>
> Dear James Veitch,
>
>
> I'm an American living in Paris, but I had a flat in London for a
> number of years and in 1994-4 lived in Richmond, on the Green. Kew
> and Richmond Park were favourite haunts.
>
>
> In answer to your question, in SPEAK, MEMORY VN wrote about the
> family's emigration in 1919 to London, he attending Trinity, and his
> brother, Christ College, Cambridge. He mentions that his parents
> and the three younger children lived in a rented house in Elm Park
> Gardens. ('After several expensive months in a rented house in Elm
> Park Gardens, my parents and the three younger children left for
> Berlin...)
>
>
> I don't know of any other strictly speaking London sojourns.
>
>
> Say hello to Richmond and Kew for me,
> Best wishes,
> Jack Liesveld
>
>
> John (Jack) Liesveld
> 12 rue de la Duée
> 75020 Paris
>
>
> 01 43 58 39 38
>
>
>
>
>
> Le 27 oct. 08 à 00:07, James Veitch a écrit :
>
>
> Dear Forum,
>
>
> I'm trying to discover whether at any time VN lived in London. If
> so, where? I presume at Cambridge he made trips down but can anyone
> shed any light on whether he rented a flat there?
>
>
> On a side note, I am from Richmond, London and used to live a two
> minute walk from Kew Gardens and always receive a special delight
> when Kew Gardens is referenced in The Real Life of Sebastian Knight.
>
>
> "They must have been seen wandering in Kew Gardens, or Richmond
> Park (personally I have never been there but the names attract me)."
>
>
> With best wishes,
>
>
> James Veitch
>
>
>
>
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In re Peter Cowlam's query: Dieter Zimmer's excellent list of VN's
"Homes and Haunts" on ZEMBLA yields the following:
1919 (from June): father rents apartment at 55 Stanhope Gardens, South
Kensington, London
1919 (from October 1): enrollment at Trinity College, Cambridge; rooms
at Great Court R6 (=staircase R, set 6)
Quoting Peter Cowlam <petercowlam@ONETEL.NET>:
> I wonder, would that be the Elm Park Gardens off the Fulham Rd, here?
>
> http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl
>
> Best wishes, Peter Cowlam
>
>
> From: John Liesveld
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 1:17 PM
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] VN in London?
>
>
> Dear James Veitch,
>
>
> I'm an American living in Paris, but I had a flat in London for a
> number of years and in 1994-4 lived in Richmond, on the Green. Kew
> and Richmond Park were favourite haunts.
>
>
> In answer to your question, in SPEAK, MEMORY VN wrote about the
> family's emigration in 1919 to London, he attending Trinity, and his
> brother, Christ College, Cambridge. He mentions that his parents
> and the three younger children lived in a rented house in Elm Park
> Gardens. ('After several expensive months in a rented house in Elm
> Park Gardens, my parents and the three younger children left for
> Berlin...)
>
>
> I don't know of any other strictly speaking London sojourns.
>
>
> Say hello to Richmond and Kew for me,
> Best wishes,
> Jack Liesveld
>
>
> John (Jack) Liesveld
> 12 rue de la Duée
> 75020 Paris
>
>
> 01 43 58 39 38
>
>
>
>
>
> Le 27 oct. 08 à 00:07, James Veitch a écrit :
>
>
> Dear Forum,
>
>
> I'm trying to discover whether at any time VN lived in London. If
> so, where? I presume at Cambridge he made trips down but can anyone
> shed any light on whether he rented a flat there?
>
>
> On a side note, I am from Richmond, London and used to live a two
> minute walk from Kew Gardens and always receive a special delight
> when Kew Gardens is referenced in The Real Life of Sebastian Knight.
>
>
> "They must have been seen wandering in Kew Gardens, or Richmond
> Park (personally I have never been there but the names attract me)."
>
>
> With best wishes,
>
>
> James Veitch
>
>
>
>
> Search the archive Contact the Editors Visit "Nabokov Online Journal"
> Visit Zembla View Nabokv-L Policies Manage subscription options
>
> All private editorial communications, without exception, are read
> by both co-editors.
>
>
>
> Search the archive Contact the Editors Visit "Nabokov Online Journal"
> Visit Zembla View Nabokv-L Policies Manage subscription options
>
> All private editorial communications, without exception, are read by
> both co-editors.
>
> Search archive with Google:
> http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
>
> Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
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>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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