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VAN SCHOONEVELD’S ADMINISTRATION AND MOUTON 4. Van Schooneveld’s administration and Mouton An indication of Van Schooneveld’s great involvement with Mouton is the fact that from 1969 on he had the use of a telex machine, paid for by Mouton (Moutonvanblom 84432527). After the acquisition of the farmhouse in France, he also received a telex connection there in 1971 (Moutonvs 33085 F). This not only facilitated communication between France and the head quarters in The Hague (32527 Monco NL), but also between France and Bloomington. The thousands of telexes that can be found in the Leiden Van Schooneveld Collection make it possible to look into any and all Mouton business in the smallest detail. Another indication of their many contacts during that period was the heavy telegram traffic between Mouton and Van Schooneveld (see 111. 25). The scale of Van Schooneveld’s involvement with Mouton is also evident from the fact that around 1970 - a time when it was difficult to get a phone connection - there was a Mouton phone number at a private Leiden address where Van Schooneveld used to stay several times a year when he flew from the United States to the Netherlands. Mouton’s drive to expand is evident from its policy of requesting manu scripts for review from lists of American dissertations. Some of the lists that De Ridder drafted have been kept. On these lists Van Schooneveld would write ‘yes’ or ‘no’, and indicate for which series the manuscript was intend ed. 33 De Ridder and Van Schooneveld envisioned a very great market for this as is evident from a letter to Mouton on October 21,1971 from Daniel Armstrong, Van Schooneveld’s assistant in Bloomington who died very young, in which he requests 3000 copies of a form letter ‘which is to be used for manuscript solicitation.’ 34 Mouton published in Van Schooneveld’s series many book versions of dissertations. A financial contribution from the author was sometimes a prerequisite for publication, but if it was not really necessary from the business point of view, it could be dispensed with. Important for business were series subscribers: there were about 200 for the Slavisticprintings and reprintings series at its peak, and 500 to 600 for Janua linguarum. In Slavistic printings and reprintings many reprints were published in the 1960s, works from the older Russian professional literature which it was assumed that most West European and American library collections lacked. A letter to Van Schooneveld of November 8, 1968 from the Mouton sales-