Abstract
Although Roman Jakobson came to Prague as an employee of the Soviet Mission of the Red Cross - that is, as a diplomat - scholarship did not cease to interest him, and he very much hoped that his stay in Czechoslovakia would bring him together with local linguists. It was to this end that he brought with him a letter of recommendation from the hand of the renowned Russian philologist, A. A. Šaxmatov (1864–1920). The letter was brief, but strong: Most esteemed colleague:1 This letter may reach you through our gifted young scholar, Roman Osipovic Jakobson. I appeal to you strongly to give him encouragement abroad. He is a linguist on whom we place great hopes. […] (From Toman 1994: 38)
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