刘大年先生最近送我一本新书:刘潞、崔永华编的《刘大年存当代学人手札》。书籍装潢精美,却没有出版单位,也没有版权页和条码,在一般标有某某出版社字样的位置,印着“中国社会科学院近代史研究所”字样。书中辑有刘大年在数十年中参加各种政治、外交、学术活动的珍贵照片十几帧,来往函件影印件数十幅,此外,辑录80余位当代学人手札183封。正如“编辑说明”所指出:“信的书写者,不少是当 Mr. Liu Dainn recently sent me a new book: Liu Lu, Cui Yonghua, “Liu Dainian save contemporary scholars hand-written.” Book decoration beautifully, but there is no publishing unit, there is no copyright page and bar code, in the general marked the name of a certain publishing house position, printed with “Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Modern History,” the words. The book features Liu Dainian’s dozens of precious photographs of various political, diplomatic and academic activities for dozens of years, dozens of photocopies of letters and correspondence between the two countries, and in addition, 183 contemporary scholars wrote 183 letters. As the “editorial note” states: "The writer of the letter, quite a few is