St Petersburg State University 11/18/1994
Dear Tony
Thank you very much for your letter and your innovative poems! You surprised me by writing the great poems of The November Tree in a very short time. When I wrote to you, did you write such good poems?At that time, I never thought you could write such lovely, romantic and dramatic poems within six months! I have been teaching English at St Petersburg University for so many years, and writing poems in the Russian language. Yet I dream of writing poems in English. You wrote so much in less than seven months.
You are a very unusual and very talented person. As I wrote before, you are welcome to visit us whenever possible.
Kind regards,
Liudmila Chernobrovkina