Dear Bobby Fishkin,

 

I wish I could reply with better news.    All that I vaguely recall is a green school edition – then again, it might have been mine.    My helpers and I are in fairly close contact with the Montreux books.    All I can promise is that we’ll keep an eye out for Father’s Hamlet.

 

With best wishes,

   Dmitri Nabokov

 

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From: D. Barton Johnson [mailto:chtodel@cox.net]
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Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 10:51 PM
Subject: Nabokov's copy of Hamlet



 Dear Nabokov L with particular attention to Dmitri Nabokov,

 I am conducting research into where, if anywhere, Nabokov's personal
 copy of Hamlet exists with his annotations, underlining or other marginalia.  I have
 been informed by Professor Stephen Jan Parker that there was marginalia in
 Nabokov's copies of two Shakespeare plays-- "The Tempest" and
 "Twelfth-Night."-- in the Montreux books that he looked through, but that there
 was no copy of Hamlet among those books.  I would be very interested in whether
 such an edition exists, either in Dmitri Nabokov's possesion or in another
 collection.  Many, many thanks for any information any of you might be able to
 offer me in this regard,

 Sincerely,
 Bobby Fishkin