[Corpora-List] Nikolai Gogol wrote on his preface to "Dead Souls" ...

https://archive.org/details/deadsouls1916gogo/ "... the following is the manner in which I would request them to transmit their notes for my consideration. Inscribing the package with my name let them then enclose that package in a second one addressed either to the Rector of the University of St Petersburg or to Professor Shevirev of the University of Moscow" I hope they were not burned with the second, "more hopeful" (and boring?) second chapter. They may have been archived probably somewhere in Russia. Does any one know what happened to such letters?, where could they be possibly found? I am thinking of a corpora-based experiment with them. lbrtchx