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Letters of Anton Chekhov (Tchekhov) - Penn State University

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<strong>Anton</strong> <strong>Chekhov</strong>TO N. M. LINTVARYOV.MOSCOW, March 5, 1890.… As for me, I have a cough too, but I am alive and I believe I’mwell. I shan’t be with you this summer, as I am going in April, onaffairs <strong>of</strong> my own, to the island <strong>of</strong> Sahalin, and shall not be back tillDecember. I am going across Siberia (eleven thousand versts) andshall come back by sea. I believe Misha wrote to you as thoughsomeone were commissioning me to go, but that’s nonsense. I amcommissioning myself to go, on my own account. There are lots <strong>of</strong>bears and escaped convicts in Sahalin, so that in case messieurs thewild beasts dine <strong>of</strong>f me or some tramp cuts my throat, I beg you notto remember evil against me.Of course if I have the time and the skill to write what I want toabout Sahalin, I shall send you the book immediately that it comesinto the world; it will be dull, a specialist’s book consisting <strong>of</strong> nothingbut figures, but let me count upon your indulgence: you willsuppress your yawns as you read it ….125

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