I have failed to arrive at any agreement with your French friends, as their terms for the publication of “This Is Moscow Speaking” are quite high. This book is, I repeat, very interesting, yet the brevity of the narrative brings difficulties to any publishing house...

I have a special request for you: I told a friend of mine, who is the head of the drama department at Hamburg Radio, about the Sinyavsky-Daniel trial and showed him your invaluable report of it. My friend had a marvelous idea: based on your book, he is thinking of putting together and broadcasting a radio-play version of this important trial...

Let me start with the broadcast of the proposed reenactment of Sinyavsky’s and Daniel’s trial for Hamburg television: I would be happy if such a play appeared in German. It has been broadcast in English on American television several times already...

Now, about the book “This Is Moscow Speaking”. The copyright for it is held by the Polish “Institut Literatski” in Paris, and I will write down the institute’s address and the name of its director on a Latin typewriter for you below...