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14. Letter from Roman Jakobson to C.H. van Schooneveld, Skeikampen, Norway, August 2,1958. [Inv. No. 14] This letter goes into detail about Jakobson’s possible participation in the Congress of Slavists in Moscow later in 1958. The collection contains over one hundred letters and telegrams from Jakobson to Van Schooneveld from the period of 1949-1977. Handwritten letters and cards are usu ally in Russian. Typed letters are always in English. These letters from Jakobson form an extension of the Slavic handwritten materials at Leiden University Library (for a concise overview see Jan Paul Hinrichs, Valerij PereleSin (1913-1992). Catalogue of his papers and books in Leiden University Library. Leiden: Leiden University Library, 1997, p. 14). Alongside many letters in Russian from several Russian linguists the C.H. van Schooneveld collection offers many letters in Serbocroatian, the majority of which are written by Pavle Ivic (1924-1999), the Yugoslav linguist, who worked as an assistant under Van Schooneveld in Leiden in the 1950s.