1. Kolb-Proust Archive – Background (1)
Marcel Proust ( ), French writer, author of Remembrance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time Philip Kolb ( ), Professor of French Literature at UIUC , editor of Marcel Proust’s correspondence (Plon, Paris, , 21 volumes)

2. Kolb-Proust Archive – Background (2)
Proust’s correspondence: 5,000 (out of 20,000?) dispersed, undated, unidentified letters included in 21- volume edition. Kolb: system of 40,000 notecards organized in cross- referenced card files as tools to edit letters and compile critical apparatus

3. Kolb-Proust Archive – Kolb’s card files
Chronological file
Bibliography of texts by and about Proust
Person file
Correspondence file
Place file
File of literary citations
Periodical file
File of persons not cited in the correspondence