A letter on July 29, 1927 from B.K. Zaitsev to Yu.I. Aykhenvald is published and commented. The history of the relationship between Zaitsev and Aykhenvald is briefly outlined. More over the Letter of the Board of the Union of Russian Journalists and Writers of Germany with Gorky’s sympathetic response to Dzerzhinsky’s death is cited both with the review of the responses to the “Letter of Russian Writers” (1927) in the newspaper “Rul”.