The article presents autographs of Nazarii Petrovich, Iakov Nazar’evich and Ivan Melnitskii kept in the Institute Russian Literature (Pushkin House) Academmy Science, Ancient Storage (Drevlekhranilishche) named after V. I. Malyshev: their letters to close relative Gavrila Alexandrovich Latin-Russian dictionary, Latin part which was written by Melnitskii. relate different circumstances Crimean c...

In an earlier study that identified previously unrecognized writings of the young 15 Thomas Hobbes, questions were raised about the authorship of some of Francis Bacon's published works. This article reports a follow-up study in which two independent statistical analyses of Bacon's English works both conclude that, whereas Bacon's autographic writings show clearly that they are authored by the ...

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, collecting authors’ material remains developed from a private pursuit into public mission, history that is coupled to emergence of modern institutions such as research library literary archive. Authors period were themselves both aware involved in market for manuscripts increasingly institutionalized culture writers’ papers. This article l...