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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 HIS SISTER.YALTA, September 9, 1900.DEAR MASHA,I answer the letter in which you write about Mother. To my thinkingit would be better for her to go to Moscow now in the autumnand not after December. She will be tired <strong>of</strong> Moscow and pining forYalta in a month, you know, and if you take her to Moscow in theautumn she will be back in Yalta before Christmas. That’s how itseems to me, but possibly I am mistaken; in any case you must takeinto consideration that it is much drearier in Yalta before Christmasthan it is after—infinitely drearier.Most likely I will be in Moscow after the 20th <strong>of</strong> September, andthen we will decide. From Moscow I shall go I don’t know where—first to Paris, and then probably to Nice, from Nice to Africa. I shallhang on somehow to the spring, all April or May, when I shall cometo Moscow again.There is no news. There’s no rain either, everything is dried up. Athome here it is quiet, peaceful, satisfactory, and <strong>of</strong> course dull.“Three Sisters” is very difficult to write, more difficult than myother plays. Oh well, it doesn’t matter, perhaps something will come<strong>of</strong> it, next season if not this. It’s very hard to write in Yalta, by theway: I am interrupted, and I feel as though I had no object in writing;what I wrote yesterday I don’t like to-day ….Well, take care <strong>of</strong> yourself.My humblest greetings to Olga Leonardovna, to Vishnevsky, andall the rest <strong>of</strong> them too.If Gorky is in Moscow, tell him that I have sent a letter to him inNizhni-Novgorod.408

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