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Foreword
“Lolita, or the Confession of a White Widowed Male,” such were the two titles under which
the writer of the present note received the strange pages it preambulates. “Humbert Humbert,” their author, had died in legal captivity, of coronary thrombosis, on November 16,
1952, a few days before his trial was scheduled to start. His lawyer, my good friend and relation, Clarence Choate Clark, Esq., now of he District of Columbia bar, in asking me to edit
the manuscript, based his request on a clause in his client’s will which empowered my eminent cousin to use his discretion in all matters pertaining to the preparation of “Lolita” for
print. Mr. Clark’s decision may have been influenced by the fact that the editor of his choice
had just been awarded the Poling Prize for a modest work (“Do the Senses make Sense?”)
wherein certain morbid states and perversions had been discussed.
“Lolita, or the Confession of a White Widowed Male,” such were the two titles under which
the writer of the present note received the strange pages it preambulates. “Humbert Humbert,” their author, had died in legal captivity, of coronary thrombosis, on November 16,
1952, a few days before his trial was scheduled to start. His lawyer, my good friend and relation, Clarence Choate Clark, Esq., now of he District of Columbia bar, in asking me to edit
the manuscript, based his request on a clause in his client’s will which empowered my eminent cousin to use his discretion in all matters pertaining to the preparation of “Lolita” for
print. Mr. Clark’s decision may have been influenced by the fact that the editor of his choice
had just been awarded the Poling Prize for a modest work (“Do the Senses make Sense?”)
wherein certain morbid states and perversions had been discussed.
