Svetlova was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's mother-in-law.

Natalia Dmitrievna Solzhenitsyn (b. 1939) was Solzhenitsyn's wife.

Enclosures include letters from Swiss and Finnish radio stations as well as a letter from Anna Stolz (Luchterhand).

Stahle was the director of the Nobel Foundation.

Enclosures include a copy of a letter in German by Solzhenitsyn dated November 27, 1970 and dealing with the Nobel Foundation as well as correspondence with Langen-Müller Verlag.

The agreements are between Luchterhand Publishing and Dutch, Spanish, and Danish firms. These agreements were probably enclosures.

Stepan Nikolaevich Tatishcheff (1935-1985) was closely involved in Solzhenitsyn's works being published in the West. From 1971 to 1974, he was the cultural attache of the French embassy in Moscow, which became a means of smuggling Solzhenitsyn's work to the West. He also played a role in connecting Solzhenitsyn with Nikita Struve. His code name in the letters is "Emil," while Struve's is "Kolia."

Nikita Alekseevich Struve (b. 1931) taught Russian at the Sorbonne and was the director of the YMCA publishing house.

The German writer Elisabeth Borchers (1926-2013) was working for Luchterhand Publishing at this time; the enclosure, attached to her letter for April 27, was from Radio Free Berlin.

These agreements had probably been enclosures.

These letters from Hiroshi Kimura and Y. Nakayama were directed to Böll in regard to Japanese translations of The First Circle. Böll would send these translations to Lev Kopelev in Moscow, who would pass them on to Solzhenitsyn.

Barbara Markstein (1953-1998) passes some information on to her mother after a trip to Moscow; there are several references to Solzhenitsyn, Kolya (Nikita Struve), and others.

Explanation with regard to legal authorization to represent Solzhenitsyn; item had probably been an enclosure.

Discussion revolves around Israfilm and the possibility of making a film of The First Circle.

Enclosure consists of a proposal for a book on Solzhenitsyn.

The TLS is from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux with regard to a licensing agreement with Luchterhand publishing.

"Klara" appears to be a pseudonym, and the correspondence, which appears to revolve around publication rights, are coded.

Letters revolve around Israfilm's intention of making a film of The First Circle; enclosure consists of a copy of a Berlin newspaper article on the same matter.

Enclosures include letters from Roger Straus (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) and Max Reinhardt (Bodley Head), a letter from the Nobel Foundation, and a photocopy of a letter by Solzhenitsyn to Heeb dated January 14, 1971.

Roger Straus worked as an editor for Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

Schwartz, a NY attorney, touches upon various matters: Israfilm, Bodley Head, the YMCA press in Paris, etc.

Joan Daves (1919-1997) was a literary agent recommended to Heeb by Heinrich Böll; enclosure consists of a short newspaper article from The Guardian about Solzhenitsyn's forthcoming book August 1914.

The letters concern the publication of August 1914 in Russian by the YMCA press.

Heeb addresses the matter of adapting The First Circle for the stage to Curto, an attorney for Harper and Row. Curto's letter apparently refers to Olga Carlisle.

Folder includes Markstein's translation of Solzhenitsyn's brief biography for the Nobel Foundation and a photocopy of Solzhenitsyn's letter to Heeb, marked Nr. 1 again with Markstein's translation. Folder also includes copies of Heeb's correspondence with N. Struve, A. Curto, A. Schwartz, and G. Nivat.

Folder includes letters from Max Reinhardt (Bodley Head) and from Dominique de Roux (1935-1977), a French writer and publisher.