1986年夏末的一天上午,我来到杨伯峻先生的家里,此前,听同事讲,杨先生与楚图南先生沾亲,他们之间关系很好。我当时正忙于筹备纪念中华书局成立75周年的一些工作,其中一项就是要请一些老先生题词。楚图南先生不仅是国家的领导人,而且是一位德高望重、学识渊博的学者和著名的书法家。早在30年代,他就曾将霍威尔士的《地理学发达史》翻译成中文交 One morning in the late summer of 1986, I came to the home of Mr. Yang Po-jun. Earlier, listening to my colleagues, Mr. Yang had a good relationship with Mr. Chu Tunan and they had a good relationship. I was busy preparing for some work commemorating the 75th anniversary of the establishment of Zhonghua Book Company. One of them was to invite some old gentlemen to write an inscription. Mr. Chu Tunnan is not only the leader of the country, but also a highly respected and knowledgeable scholar and famous calligrapher. As early as the 1930s, he had translated Welch’s “History of Geography” into Chinese