Regret for receiving the letter too late for trying to combine the trip to Prague with visiting Grenoble and Paris; hopes to do this during the planned visit to Vienna

Thanks for the received articles and for the author's intent to translate into English Ershov's paper on man-machine interaction; request to send several copies of of the translation for Ershov's english-speaking colleagues; linguistic discourse on the use of the verb "to give" in Russian language

Request to notify of the schedule of the adressee's visit to the USSR in order to coordinate it with his own travelling schedule; account of the works carried out on Computing Center

reminding the addressee of the promised letter with instructions; answering a question about translation of the example program; request to explain the current meaning of the term "bootstrapping"