Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends

TO HIS SISTER.

YALTA, March 26, 1900.

DEAR MASHA,

... There is no news, there is no water in the pipes either. I am sick to death of visitors. Yesterday, March 25, they came in an incessant stream all day; doctors keep sending people from Moscow and the provinces with letters asking me to find lodgings, to “make arrangements,” as though I were a house-agent! Mother is well. Mind you keep well too, and make haste and come home.