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Letters of Anton Chekhov (Tchekhov) - Penn State University

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<strong>Anton</strong> <strong>Chekhov</strong>TO GORKY.YALTA, October 16, 1900.DEAR ALEXEY MAXIMOVITCH,… On the 21st <strong>of</strong> this month I am going to Moscow, and fromthere abroad. Can you imagine—I have written a play; but as it willbe produced not now, but next season, I have not made a fair copy<strong>of</strong> it yet. It can lie as it is. It was very difficult to write “Three Sisters.”Three heroines, you see, each a separate type and all the daughters<strong>of</strong> a general. The action is laid in a provincial town, as it mightbe Perm, the surroundings military, artillery.The weather in Yalta is exquisite and fresh, my health is improving.I don’t even want to go away to Moscow. I am working so well,and it is so pleasant to be free from the irritation I suffered from allthe summer. I am not coughing, and am even eating meat. I amliving alone, quite alone. My mother is in Moscow.Thanks for your letters, my dear fellow, thanks very much. I readthem over twice. My warmest greetings to your wife and Maxim.And so, till we meet in Moscow. I hope you won’t play me false, andwe shall see each other.God keep you.409

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