Serapion Brothers
The original manuscripts of Lunts's two screenplays, his hospital memoir, rough drafts of letters he sent and the original letters he received in Germany, 1923-1924, plus his last effects (passport, wallet, photographs), were kept by his parents and later by his sister, Yevgeniya ("Zhenya") Lunts, who put everything in a brown suitcase. She married, moved to England and became Genia Hornstein (1908-1971). She kept the suitcase unopened through the war years. Early in 1964 she opened it and shared unpublished materials with a visiting graduate student from Manchester University, Gary Kern, who sorted them into folders and used them in his dissertation on Lunts and the Serapion Brothers. In 1965, through the agency of Nina Berberova (1901-1993), she donated the collection to Yale University.