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Book: Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971
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  1. Vladimir Nabokov _ Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The

    {On Du Bois} Celebrated Negro scholar and organizer. 70 years old, but looks 50. Dusky face, grizzled goatee, nice wrinkles, big ears - prodigiously like a White Russian General in mufti played sympathetically by Emil Jannings. Piebald hands. Brilliant talker, with an old-world touch. Très gentilhomme. Smokes special Turkish cigarettes. Charming and distinguished in other, more important, ways. Told me that when he went to England he was listed as "Colonel" on the Channel boat, because his name bore the addition "Col." on his passport.
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