Tove Jansson and Tuulikki, a visit with my parents Lars and Annika to Klovharun, August 1970

In August 1970, with my parents Lars and Annika Bäckström I visited Tove Jansson and her friend Tuulikki on their small rock island. The event starts in Helsinki. My father wrote an article in Dagens Nyheter in november -56, “being Moominminded“. He got his first letter from Tove the same month in which she said she was “proud and happy“ that he had taken her Moomin characters seriously. In february -57 she visited us in Uppsala after a lecture she held at a student society. The local newspaper showed up in our home and took a picture of Tove with me in her lap. Later she made cover illustrations for some of my father´s books. In -64 she sent him the manuscript for “Moominpappa at Sea“ from which he published a piece in Ord&Bild for which he was the editor. He had printed one of the novels in “The Invisible Child“ in -62 in the same magazine. “You cannot imagine how happy You made me with Your letter“ she wrote in response to his