Record ID:
240838
Accession number:
MA 6154
Credit:
Purchase, Drue Heinz Fund; 2004.
Description:
1 item (3 p.) ; 28 cm.
Notes:
With some pencil notes.
The recipient, a member of the entomology department at the American Museum of Natural History, was instrumental in launching Nabokov in his American lepidopterological career.
Summary:
Describing a trip collecting butterflies in the Grand Canyon and New Mexico (his first of many such trips), announcing his new position teaching comparative literature at Wellesley College; with a full-page postscript, signed "V.N." and with a drawing, describing a butterfly in detail.
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