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I recently learned that Nabokov was a reader of National Review and a friend of Buckley's and once a year Buckley would meet Nabokov at his home at the Montreux Palace Hotel.

>“The National Review has always been a joy to read,” Nabokov wrote WFB on March 26, 1973, from Montreux, “and your articles in the Herald Tribune counteract wonderfully the evil and trash of its general politics.”

Here's a link to the eulogy WFB wrote about VN:
http://www.readitforward.com/excerpt/william-f-buckleys-eulogies-of-famous-authors/

I recently learned that Nabokov was a reader of National Review and a friend of Buckley's and once a year Buckley would meet Nabokov at his home at the Montreux Palace Hotel.

>“The National Review has always been a joy to read,” Nabokov wrote WFB on March 26, 1973, from Montreux, “and your articles in the Herald Tribune counteract wonderfully the evil and trash of its general politics.”

Here's a link to the eulogy WFB wrote about VN:
http://www.readitforward.com/excerpt/william-f-buckleys-eulogies-of-famous-authors/