BIB_ID
240838
Accession number
MA 6154
Creator
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.
Display Date
1941 Nov. 11.
Credit line
Purchase, Drue Heinz Fund; 2004.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 28 cm.
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.
With some pencil notes.
With some pencil notes.
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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