In the article biographical information on Eugene Kayden (1886–1977), Professor of Economics at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, U.S.A. is presented. He was one of Pasternak’s correspondents and translator of his poetry into English.The full text of letters from Pasternak to Kayden from 1958–1959 is reproduced from the originals that are kept in the Manuscript Department of the Library of Colorado University at Boulder. In addition letters from Kayden to Gleb Struve pertaining to this period are published.