Petersburg & other archives

[Keenan, Edward]

Yes, MIT has a good deal of R.O.J.'s archive (more than 70 boxes), but
my recollection is that the great bulk of it deals with his time in
America, for reasons that are not hard to imagine.  (See the recent
Roman Iakobson.  Teksty, dokumenty, issledovaniia, M., 1999, p. XVII and
passim.)  As best I can now remember, it appears from the MIT archive
that when he fled Prague, he took little more than some family photos,
his diploma from the Lazarev Institute, and a baptismal certificate.
(These can probably be identified easily, as the documents were folded
to the size of the photos, and apparently carried in a concealed pouch
or packet.)  He may also have taken some 1930s correspondence with
Trubetskoi and others, now largely published, and a few items (e.g.,
from diplomatic yearbooks) reflecting his time in the Soviet
torgpredstvo in Prague.  These items are now at MIT, but he may have
received them by some means after he arrived here.

But as Zuzanna says, your best bet is to contact the MIT archivists.

Edward L. Keenan
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of History
Harvard University


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Massachusetts Institute of Technology holds Roman Jakobson's archives.
How far back does the material included go, I don't know - best to
contact MIT librarians/archivists directly.

http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/research/


Zuzana Nagy

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