The author, mother of Ryan Mackle, who went to Moscow and Novosibirsk with the groupe of American teen-agers, thanks A.Ershov for his dedication to making this remarkable trip happen. She asks to deliver an enclosed letter to a family, which received her son very warmly.

The author found and sent away the letters and postcards the addressee left in the office (in Zurich) on Monday morning. He enclosed the new announcement for yellow reports.

The author considers the dates of the addressee's visit to Paris and his visit to Novosibirsk.

The author informs of his corporation, publishing 80 computer-related magazines and newspapers in 30 different countries. They would like to establish a joint venture with Academy of Science of the USSR. They ask about meeting with addressee or any other people in Moscow. The reclame booklet of the "CW Communications/Inc." is attached.

After a talk with the addressee in Lousanne the author sends him an article by Douglas R. Hofstadter "Metafont, Metamathematics, and Metaphysics: Comments on Donald Knuth's Article "The Concept of a Meta-font", published in August, 1982.

The author sends the letter from one of his students, Matt Wiener, who is interested in spending a year visiting and working in the USSR. He asks to help this student.

of recent Technical Reports from the Institute of Informatics in Zurich. Copies of reports can be ordered.

The author acknowledges the receipt of the letter of February 26, 1987, and hopes to give more definite replywithin a few weeks. He asks to inform of the approximate dates and details of the addressee's travel to the USA.

The author asks to render an assistance for a sale in the USSR of computers made in capitalist countries "for the rubles" through Polish Foreign Trade Companies. (Handwritten text). The proposed configurations of PC/AT Compatible Computers is attached.

The author thanks warmly for the addressee's reply. He discusses a participation of soviet students in the Governer's School this year and looks forward to hosting the addressee in 1988.

The author congratulates Andrei Petrovich on the 56th birthday and hopes to meet him in France or in the USA if the dates of their visits will coincide.

The author informs of the celebration of the 50th issue of "Theoretical Computer Science" in Karlsruhe. He only regrets about the intention of several members of the Editorial Board to resign.

The author shares impressions about his first participation in IFIP TC-2 meeting as a representative of Czechoslovakia. He asks the addressee to help to realize a proposal that 1989 meeting could be either in Bulgaria, Hungary or Czechoslovakia.

The author proposes to create an international "study group" on Theoretical Foundations of Informatics in Education, offers concrete candidates and asks about sponsorship.

The author informs of a decision to resign Prof. Shokin from the members of IFIP WG 2.5. He waits an addressee's suggestion for an alternative member to represent the USSR.

The author introduces himself and his organization, informs of a creation of a new international, scholarly journal on the social aspects of computing technology. He invites the addressee to serve on the editorial board of this journal.

The author asks to answer concerning the second version of the paper "An Architecture for symbolic Processing", submitted for publication in IPL.

In reply to the wellcome letter the authors inform of their own good news: Don is happy that the brain tumor and other tumors have dissapeared thanks to the treatment with interferon; Sue will participate in International Congress that will take place in Moscow, in August 17-22. She will visit Leningrad, Tashkent and Samarkand. They hope that the control inspectation of A.Ershov in Moscow gave positive results.

The author returned (ten days ago) from the Netherlands where during the summer he wrote his book. He regrets the Hoares' departure to England because their one-year visit finished. The written confirmation of a permission to publish V.Sabelfeld's Russian translation of his article is attached.

The secretariat regrets to inform of a lack of some ordered publications.