我与沙曼翁先生的交往,始于20世纪70年代末、80年代初。沙曼翁先生常住苏州,我每逢到苏州出差,总要穿过十全街后那条长长的一人弄去拜访,但我们之间更多的是书信往来。信札一封封留存下来,一直累积到60余封,每次捧读这些信札,犹如面对先生慈祥的笑容,聆听其谆谆教诲,又如促膝长谈。沙曼翁先生与我谈得最多的,是读书学习,反复强调多读书则胸有点墨,下笔妍雅。他说:“以前写得好的书法家,大多是读书人,写字只是 My contacts with Mr. Shamanng began in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Mr. Shamanng often lives in Suzhou. Every time I travel to Suzhou, I have to go through the long one after crossing Shiquan Street, but more of us are correspondence. Letters a letter retained, has been accumulated to more than 60 letters, each holding these letters, like the face of Mr. kind smile, to listen to their carelessness, another example is the knee-jerk talk. Mr. Shaman Weng talked with me the most is to study and study, repeatedly stressed that more reading a little bit of ink chest, pen Yan Ya. He said: ”Well-written calligraphers, mostly scholar, writing only