TLS to Mademoiselle Marie Schébéko from Vladimir Nabokov, September 21, 1955 ., September 21, 1955

Writing from Goldwin Smith Hall, Ithaca NY, in French, VN is extremely anxious about Girodias' actions (or lack thereof), describing both G.'s habit of responding neither to phone calls nor letters, evading all questions relating to the matter of copyright, and replying only vaguely to VN's concerns about publicity. VN, skeptical of G.'s claims to be aiming Lolita at the American tourists who, VN feels, will have left France by this time, is beginning to take matters into his own hands (establishing copyright with the Library of Congress, and asking Schébéko for notice of Lolita's publication and the French reviews). Annotated both by VN, and by another hand, perhaps Schébéko or Véra.