Correspondence, notes, and holograph and typescript drafts, galley proofs, page proofs, and printed versions of biographies, book reviews, essays, interviews, memoirs, novellas, novels, plays, poems, short stories, and translations of works by others. Includes Conclusive Evidence, A Memoir (1951), Nabokov's translation of Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse (1964) and of The Song of Igor's Campaign; An Epic of the Twelfth Century (1960), and the screenplay of Lolita (1961). Includes Nabokov's novels such as Bend Sinister (1947), Dar (The Gift; 1952), Lolita (1955), Mashenʹka (Mary; 1926), Otchai︠a︡nie (Despair; 1936), Pale Fire (1962), Podvig (Glory; 1932), Prigiashenīe na kaznʹ (Invitation to a Beheading; 1938), The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941), and Zashchita Luzhina (The Defense; 1930). Nabokov's plays include Izobretenie Valʹsa (The Waltz Invention; 1938), Polius (The Pole; 1924), and Sobytie (The Event; 1938), and an unpublished play (The Tragedy of Mr. Morn).

Correspondents include I︠U︡liĭ Isaevich Aĭkhenvalʹd, Mark Aleksandrovich Aldanov, Nathan Banks, Gaston Baty, Nina Nikolaevna Berberova, Nikolaĭ Berdi︠a︡ev, Ivan Alekseevich Bunin, Altagracia de Jannelli, Vladislav Felit︠s︡ianovich Khodasevich, Ivan Lukash, V. A. Maklakov, Charles Duncan Michener, Peter Alexander Pertzoff, Jarl Priel, Borïs Rapchïnskiï, V.V. Rudnev, Zinaïda Schakovskoy, Gleb Struve, and Vladimir Zenzinov, as well as various Russian-language emigré publishers and publications such as Petropolis, Novoe russkoe slovo, Poslednie novosti, Russki zapiski, and Sovremennye zapiski.