读了《百年潮》今年第三期陈铁健同志《送李新先生远行》一文,我才知道李新同志已于2月5日仙逝了,一时间心潮翻滚百感交集,想起了许多许多:想起近半个世纪李新同志与何干之的真挚友谊以及对何干之和我在学术工作上的支持与帮助;想起我1994年以来协助他写回忆录时,他那谈锋似剑、思绪如潮的独特风格;特别是感佩他敢于说真话、直笔写真史的史学家的刚正之风骨……促使我写下这些文字再送李新同志一程,祝他魂归长天遨游大海! I read Comrade Chen Tiejian’s article on “Traveling to Li Xin to Go Far” in the third issue of this year. I realized that Comrade Li Xin had passed away on February 5. In the past half century, Comrade Li Xin’s sincere friendship with He Ganzhi and his support for and assistance in the academic work of He Ganzhi and me; when I recalled my assistance in writing memoir since 1994, In particular, he admired him for daring to say the truth and wrote a straightforward portrait history of historians.