about the dissertation defence, the works on the Input Language, several invitations to the USA and the author's plans in this connection

of literature obtained from american colleagues and sent by mail to Novosibirsk

The author tells about the planned 6-week course of computer sciences for university professors and invites Ershov to read a series of lectures on principles of automated programming

Ershov acknowledges the receipt of two books one of which prompted him to speak in defence of Soviet science and the works of Soviet scientists, frequently wrongly ignored; against the cold war propagation leading to mutual distrust between the USA and USSR

Thanks for the letter. photos, and tables; discussion of the invitation to the USA and the problems of the return visit caused by the fact that Academgorodok is still under construction and will not be open for guests until 1963; answering the question about Soviet tubeless computers

Thanks for the invitation; request to send the program of the visit approved by Prof. Perlis; several personal questions