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Letters of Anton Chekhov (Tchekhov) - Penn State University

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<strong>Letters</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Anton</strong> <strong>Chekhov</strong> to His Family and Friends with biographical sketchTO F. D. BATYUSHKOV.NICE, December 15, 1897.… In one <strong>of</strong> your letters you expressed a desire that I should sendyou an international story, taking for my subject something fromthe life here. Such a story I can write only in Russia from reminiscences.I can only write from reminiscences, and I have never writtendirectly from Nature. I have let my memory sift the subject, sothat only what is important or typical is left in it as in a filter ….356

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