Because he couldn't buy a copy of Tianlong Ba Bu there, he wrote to Jin Yong himself, asking for a set. "It's the earliest documented example of a university professor studying Jin Yong's novels."
一九六六年美國加州大學柏克萊分校教授陳世驤在日本任教，由於買不到《天龍八部》，特別緻書金庸，請寄一套，這封信被視為「大學教授讀金庸武俠」之說的一件最早文獻。