Correspondence of Samuel Solomonovich Koteliansky

The correspondence consists of autographed letters from Koteliansky to Sir Sidney Philip Waterlow referring to much in the literature of the period including reference to D. H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, Evelyn Waugh, and Aldous Huxley.

Samuel Solomonovich Koteliansky was born in 1880. His translations of nineteenth century Russian writers first started to appear in the 1920s. He translated some of the so-called 'untranslatable' and extremely difficult Russian texts including the diaries, personal letters and notebooks of Anton Chekhov and others. He also translated I. A. Bunin and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Samuel Solomonovich Koteliansky died in 1955.

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Accession no. E93.3.

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The UK National Register of Archives (NRA), updated by the Historical Manuscripts Commission, notes: correspondence and papers, 1914-1950, British Library, Manuscript Collections, Ref. Add MSS 48966-75 52923 58372 60489; correspondence (57 items) with the Hogarth Press, Reading University Library, Ref. MS2750; and, letters to Leonard Woolf, 1929-1931, Sussex University Library Special Collections, Ref. SxMs 13/Pt III NRA 42924 Woolf.