Nadezhda Mandelshtam will certainly not come this year. I am afraid that the Jubilee celebration has had a very oppressive effect on intellectual life generally. Certainly it has discouraged her from even trying to get the necessary exit visa. I am still hoping that she will make the effort later on...

Basically, there is more of my editorial work in the edition of N<adezhda> Ya<kovlevna> M<andelshtam>’s memoirs than there is Hayward’s. But… for my work, they have only given me a few copies of the edition and some trivial things...