Petersburg & other archives

[Steven Hill]

Dear colleagues & Marci Shore:

I wonder whether some really valuable archives from early 20th-century literary people (Jakobson, Brik,
Maiakovskii, Burliuk, Shklovskii,  et al.) might turn up rather close to home.  In places like the Widener
Library at Harvard, N Y libraries like Columbia U., NY Public, etc., etc.  Possibly even the Hoover Institution
{Library] at my alma mater, Stanford, although it's probably stronger on politics than literature.   And
Indiana U., where Ms Shore has undoubtedly begun, has the very rich Lilly Library manuscript & rare book
collections.  Even in obscure little collections like Notre Dame's Herbert Marshall archives (formerly at
Southern Illinois University), something interesting might turn up.

I have the impression that  some older archives may have been preserved (outside Russia) precisely
because they were carried OUT,  before Stalin's purges wreaked too much havoc.  But maybe Russian
Federation archivists are now "making amends" for former document destruction, and that's all to the
good.

Cheers,
Steven P Hill,
University of Illinois.
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