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33. Telegram from Dmitrij Sergeevic Lichacev to C.H. van Schooneveld, Leningrad, January 6,1975. [Inv. No. 24] Mouton published two Festschrifts for Roman Jakobson: For Roman Jakobson (1957) (see Inv. No. 22) and To Honour Roman Jakobson (1967) (see Inv. No. 23). A third Festschrift was in the works in the fall of 1973, but could not be published with Mouton after Peter de Ridder’s departure. The book Roman Jakobson: echoes of his scholarship finally came out in 1977 at The Peter de Ridder Press, edited by Daniel Armstrong and C.H. van Schooneveld. The Leiden collection contains the complete correspondence and the original manuscripts, also letters from colleagues whose work was sollicited but who could not contribute. In this category we find letters from, among others, Roland Barthes, Dwight Bolinger, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Noam Chomsky en Julia Kristeva. The collection contains many papers concerning the contribution of Umberto Eco (in the volume published under the title ‘The influence of Roman Jakobson on the development of semiotics’), among other things several variants of his contributions and a number of letters (November 22, 1973: acceptance of an invitation; undated, received Bloomington January 17, 1975: about possibilities of transfer to an Italian publisher; Milan, December 17, 1975: reaction to being reminded of the deadline; Milan, April 7, 1976: upon sending final version; Milan, May 12, 1976: new revisions incorporated on the suggestion of Jakobson himself). In his letter of the beginning of 1975, Eco says that he is up to date on the situation with Mouton and that he already expected problems with the publication of the book. If not so, he had ideas for publication with an Italian publisher who wanted to expand into the international market. A telegram from Dmitrij Sergeevic Lichacev says: ‘Unfortunately am not able send you my contribution.’ At first (Leningrad, November 11,1973) he had promised a con tribution of about forty typed pages.