The impressive corpus of letters from Adamovich to Chinnov (1909–1996) is another very valuable source for the history of the “Parisian note” and emigrant literature in general. Adamovich’s letters to Chinnov are, in essence, letters from the founding father of the “Parisian note” of its nephew. Chinnov was an adherent of the “note” only in the earliest, Parisian period. Having moved to Germany, to the radio station “Liberation” (later - “Svoboda”), and then leaving for the USA, he increasingly moved away from the poetics of “notes” into risky experiments. From the second half of the 1960s. Adamovich's letters contain notes of disagreement with Chinnov's aspirations, and he writes delicately but persistently about his persistent rejection of innovation for innovation's sake. Chinnov, the further he goes, the more he continues to experiment, moving further and further away from the poetics of the “Parisian note.” Adamovich, continuing to highly evaluate him as a poet and “master”, increasingly praises him “in general”, and less and less notes entire poems he likes, preferring to talk about individual lines. For Chinnov, the years of correspondence are the beginning of a new period in his life and work, and for Adamovich - a kind of summing up, the final chapter of the short history of the “Parisian note”. From the book: “If a miracle is at all possible abroad...”: The era of the 1950s. in the correspondence of Russian emigrant writers. M., 2008. pp. 11–96.