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TLS from the linguist and public intellectual addressed to Professor Irma Antonetto of the Associazione Culturale Italiana in Turin, declining her invitation to have him speak. September 17 1969; 1 pp., on stationary for the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at MIT, where Chomsky has long been a professor. "My schedule for the coming year is very difficult and I'm afraid that I will be unable to come to Italy, even for a short time."  Mailing folds, else very fine.

Noam Chomsky is a man of many hats, including linguist, historian, social critic, cognitive scientist, and philosopher. According to Margaret Boden's Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science, he is the most-cited living author.

Irma Antonetto (1920-1993), was founder and director of the Associazione Culturale Italiana [Association of Italian Culture] for 46 years, during which time she brought some 400 philosophers, writers, scientists, artists, and Nobel winners to lecture in Italy. She was recipient of the 1964 Cavaliere al merito della Repubblica italiana. (18584)

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