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15. Letter from Roman Jakobson to C.H. van Schooneveld, Warsaw, October 19,1959. [Inv. No. 14] This letter in Russian, written on the letterhead of the Polish Academy of Sciences, con cerns editorial business of the International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics, that was published from 1959 on by Mouton. In a letter dated February 17,1957 to the Soviet scholar R.I. Avanesov, Van Schoone veld tries to entice him to become editor of a journal to be set up: At the moment we are contemplating to have two editors from Europe: Stang (Oslo) and van Schooneveld (Leiden), two from the western hemisphere: Jakobson (Harvard) and Whitfield (California). We now should like to include editors from Slavic countries, in the first place from Russia. We should be very grateful if you first of all would consent to become a member of the editorial board and we should be glad to include, on your proposal, more editors from Slavic countries’ (Inv. No. 21). In the end, scholars from the Soviet Union and other former communist countries did not join the editorial board. They did, however, contribute to the International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics, the original letterhead of which bore the edito rial address Annemarie Plate, Haarlemmer Trekvaart 22, Oegstgeest’. This periodical continued to be published by Mouton until Vol. 16 (1973). In a let ter of July 9,1974 to Dean S. Worth (University of California), who had been editor since Vol. 9 (1965), the newly appointed manager Dr. P.A.F. van Veen says that the peri odical no longer will be published by Mouton. In a circular of December 1974 the dis tributor Co-Libri announces this to the subscribers (Inv. No. 21). Peter de Ridder, subsequently, takes this periodical over for his new publishing com pany, so that Vols. 17-22 (1974-1976) appear with The Peter de Ridder Press in Lisse. After De Ridder ceased his activities the journal had no publisher. On September 24, 1980, given that Mouton had long been taken over by Walter de Gruyter 8c Co., Dean S. Worth can inform his co-editors that as a result of discussions with Arie Bornkamp on September 1,1980, Mouton is taking the journal back and even plans to publish a TJSLP Supplements series. But on October 23,1981 Worth writes: ’Hold on your hats: I have just been informed by Dr. Kurt-Georg Cram, Managing Director of Walter de Gruyter, the parent firm of Mouton, that they will not, repeat not, publish IJSLP. This, after a written agreement from Arie Bornkamp of Mouton, after the international advertising brochure I recently sent you copies of, and after I had sent them the camera-ready copy of IJSLP XXIII/1, for which they should have paid me $1200 for composition’ (Inv. No. 21). Bornkamp had probably agreed to things that the management in Berlin still had to approve, see also the copy of Van Schooneveld’s letter of November 16,1981 to his co-editors: I do know that Dr. Cram has the ultimate say in negotiations like this one; it seems that Bornkamp over-committed himself’ (Inv. No. 21). After the journal had not appeared for five years, it started up again from Vol. 23 (1981) at Slavica Publishers, Columbus (Ohio), run by Charles E. Gribble. There the journal also ran into difficulties, witness Vol. 38, a single volume that covers the years 1988-1995. Slavica Publishers, in the mean time, relocated to Bloomington and oper ates under the flag of Indiana University. Beginning with Vol. 39 (1996) the journal declares Bloomington as its place of publication.