The Library of Congress today is making available to the public a set of VN papers that had been, with Dmitri Nabokov’s permission, restricted to researchers until now. Is it really true, according to an LoC statement some years ago, that the Nabokov writings in it will be in the public domain?

In 2004, the LoC said that the papers were in containers 1-20 and OV-1. A detailed list of containers 1-15, called a “complete listing”, was published in 1980 by The Vladimir Nabokov Research Newsletter (now The Nabokovian), IV, pp. 20-34. The current LoC online catalog describes the collection as containing in full 7000 items in 22 containers and one oversized container and 13 reels of microfilm dating from 1918-1974. I cannot account for the discrepancies (15 or 21 or 23) in the container counts.

Here is the beginning of a link to the LoC records.