"N<ovoe> R<usskoe> Slovo" dated July 30 <...> has not yet reached me <...>. Therefore, I cannot say anything about Gulev's report on the next book of Novyi Zhurnal. But I know his position in relation to Shalamov...

Responding to your "editorial report," I forgot to say that I welcome what you said about the "strange" reaction of "Russian thought" to Shalamov's "confession." Everything that Shalamov published in Novyi Zhurnal seems to me very valuable...

I have heard complaints about you for writing in your abstract about the next book of Novyi Zhurnal about Shalamov. I didn’t like it, and I sympathize with you. Soviet repentances, of course, are a very sad thing, but they should always be taken on faith and should not be given too much importance...

I read “The Tale of the Bluebottle” in No. 52 of Grani with great interest. I saw this work last year as a manuscript in England. The condescending and dismissive review of it by Yu. K. Terapiano in Russkaia Mysl’ upset and disappointed me...

Have you seen in the literary supplement to the London “Times” from March 9th my letter regarding their review of L. K. Chukovskaia’s novella, which appeared in Novyi Zhurnal under the title "Sofiya Petrovna" and then in Paris under the title Opustelyi Dom?

Last year Y...

I have had a surge of urgent work and have had to delay “Dnevnik.” But for now, I am sending you two poems by I. Brodskii. Print them with the preamble I wrote, but without any mention of my name. But first, it might be better to check if these poems have appeared in Grani in the last two years...