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2. Document concerning C.H. van Schooneveld’s employment at Leiden University Library for the period October 1 - December 31,1941. [Inv. No. 37] Nicolaas van Wijk bequeathed his library to Leiden University Library. The student C.H. van Schooneveld was hired on October 1,1941 as scholarly assistant (see Jan Paul Hinrichs, De erfenis van Nicolaas van Wijk (1880-1941). Catalogus van een tentoon stelling ter gelegenheid van het vijfenzeventigjarig bestaan van de studierichting Slavische taal- en letterkunde aan de Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, gehouden in de Universiteitsbiblio theek van 7 oktober tot 18 november 1988. Leiden: Universiteitsbibliotheek, 1988, p. 11). Van Schooneveld’s employment was extended until March 1,1942. The house where Van Schooneveld lived with his parents, Witte Singel 26, stood exactly at the place where now the Slavic Reading Room of the University library is located.