I assume that you are still without news about JGO, but I expected to hear from you after your talk with Martin Malia. The latter has not deigned to answer several of my letters, including the one in which I asked him whether he would have any insuperable...

I received your letter yesterday and tried several times to reach Martin by telephone without success – perhaps he’s out of town, though the Hist<ory> Dept. secretary didn’t know it if he is. I do apologize for not having written...

I have also received some information about Akhmatova, but with the strictest order to not tell anyone for the time being. Unlike the author of the letter about Mandelshtam, A.A. is mortally afraid of any communications with émigrés and foreigners...