By now you have doubtless received the photograph and the A<nna> A<khmatova> poems. I resisted taking these a bit, because when I asked [Oksman] if she wanted them published he insisted “she wants but doesn’t want to know.”...

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...