Finally the entire Sintaksis arrived and I am very grateful to you. Again I would like to express my deepest appreciation for that and the trouble you went through with retyping and mailing it. Thank you, thank you. <...>

Regarding your response to Sintaksis...

And so, here is the last part of Sintaksis. Forgive me for some slowdowns with the mailing of this final portion.

I don’t know whether you agree with me that among the poems in it there are a lot of weak and simply bad ones. Nonetheless...

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...