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• Title:James St.Clair-Sobell fonds
  
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• Author/Creator:St. Clair-Sobell, James O., 1914-
  
• Published/Created:1944, 1960-1961
  

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  • Location:UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES ASRS storageWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number:No call number available 
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:Box 1.
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:St. Clair-Sobell, James O., 1914-
  Durnovo, Ornest D.
  Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910.
  
• Description:6. 5 cm of textual records
  
• Summary:Fonds consists of several essays and one publication. It includes an annotated copy of a paper written by St. Clair-Sobell, an essay about Leo Tolstoy, a biography of Ornest D. Durnovo with related correspondence, and written remarks by a Soviet commentator on one of St. Clair-Sobell's papers. The publication is a course calendar from Karl-Franzens-Reichsuniversitat (University of Graz, in Austria) for the winter semester 1944/45.
  
• Biography/history note:Born in England, James St. Clair-Sobell received a B.A. (1935) and M.A. (1937) from the University of Melbourne. In 1946, he received a Ph.D. from the University of Graz. He became one of Britain's most accomplished linguists and philogists. St. Clair-Sobell was appointed to the newly-created Chair in Russian and Slavonic Studies in the late 1940s at UBC and he later developed the Department of Slavonic Studies.
  
• Indexes and finding aids:Inventory available.
  
• Notes:Title based on the contents of the fonds.
  The essays are written in Russian. The course calendar is in German.