The author thanks for invitation and asks to assist him in obtaining a visa and purchasing thickets. He indicates preliminary dates of his arrival and departure and asks for a draft plan of his visit.

handwritten draft

Informing of changing the Conference location to Rome and requesting to inform of the ability to attend

typewritten copy

on photographs sent by the author.

Official invitation to the Conference as an invited speaker

Sherwood relates how he has spent the previous year. He hopes to have meetings and contacts with Ershov and asks to send him a copy of Ershov's book if translated into English.

The author relates on his domestic affairs. He will be glad to meet the addressee in Kopenhagen the next automn. He discusses also the plans for "discovering Russia" in future.