_ YALTA,
       February 15, 1900.
       DEAR ALEXEY MAXIMOVITCH,
       Your article in the Nizhni-Novgorod Listok was balm to my soul. What a talented person you are! I can't write anything but belles-lettres, you possess the pen of a journalist as well. I thought at first I liked the article so much because you praise me in it; afterwards it came out that Sredin and his family and Yartsev were all delighted with it. So peg away at journalism. God bless you!
       Why don't they send me "Foma Gordeyev"? I have read it only in bits, and one ought to read it straight through at a sitting as I have just read "Resurrection." Except the relations of Nehludov and Katusha, which are somewhat obscure and made up, everything in the novel made the impression of strength, richness, and breadth, and the insincerity of a man afraid of death and refusing to admit it and clutching at texts and holy Scripture.
       Write to them to send me "Foma."
       "Twenty-six Men and a Girl" is a good story. There is a strong feeling of the environment. One smells the hot rolls.
       They have just brought your letter. So you don't want to go to India? That's a pity. When India is in the past, a long sea voyage, you have something to think about when you can't get to sleep. And a tour abroad takes very little time, it need not prevent your going about in Russia on foot.
       I am bored, not in the sense of _weltschmerz_, not in the sense of being weary of existence, but simply bored from want of people, from want of music which I love, and from want of women, of whom there are none in Yalta. I am bored without caviare and pickled cabbage.
       I am very sorry that apparently you have given up the idea of coming to Yalta. The Art Theatre from Moscow will be here in May. It will give five performances and then remain for rehearsals. So you come, study the stage at the rehearsals, and then in five to eight days write a play, which I should welcome joyfully with my whole heart.
       Yes, I have the right now to insist on the fact that I am forty, that I am a man no longer young. I used to be the youngest literary man, but you have appeared on the scene and I became more dignified at once, and no one calls me the youngest now. _

Biographical Sketch
To His Brother Mihail (July 1, 1876)
To His Cousin, Mihail Chekhov (May 10, 1877)
To His Uncle, M. G. Chekhov (1885)
To N. A. Leikin (October, 1885)
To A. S. Suvorin (February 21, 1886)
To D. V. Grigorovitch (March 28, 1886)
To N. A. Leikin (April 6, 1886)
To Madame M. V. Kiselyov (June, 1886)
To His Brother Nikolay (1886)
To Madame M. V. Kiselyov (January 14, 1887)
To His Uncle, M. G. Chekhov (January 18, 1887)
To His Sister (April 2, 1887)
To V. G. Korolenko (October 17, 1887)
To His Brother Alexandr (November 20, 1887)
To D. V. Grigorovitch (1887)
To V. G. Korolenko (January 9, 1888)
To A. N. Pleshtcheyev (February 5, 1888)
To I. L. Shtcheglov (April 18, 1888)
To A. S. Suvorin (May 30, 1888)
To A. N. Pleshtcheyev (June 28, 1888)
To His Sister (July, 1888)
To His Brother Mihail (July 28, 1888)
To N. A. Leikin (August 12)
To A. S. Suvorin (August 29, 1888)
To A. N. Pleshtcheyev (September 30, 1889)
To A. S. Suvorin (February 23, 1890)
To N. M. Lintvaryov (March 5, 1890)
To A. S. Suvorin (March 9)
To I. L. Shtcheglov (March 22, 1890)
To A. S. Suvorin (March 22, 1890)
To His Sister (April, 1890)
To Madame Kiselyov (May 7, 1890)
To His Sister (May 14, 1890)
To A. S. Suvorin (May 20, 1890)
To His Sister (May 28, 1890)
To His Brother Alexandr (June 5, 1890)
To A. N. Pleshtcheyev (June 5, 1890)
To N. A. Leikin (June 5, 1890)
To His Sister (June 6, 1890)
To His Mother (June 20, 1890)
To N. A. Leikin (June 20, 1890)
To His Sister (June 21, 1890)
To A. S. Suvorin (June 27, 1890)
To His Sister (June 29, 1890)
Telegrams To His Mother
To A. S. Suvorin (September 11, 1890)
To His Mother (October 6, 1890)
To A. S. Suvorin (December 9)
To His Sister (January 14, 1891)
To A. F. Koni (January 16, 1891)
To A. S. Suvorin (January 31, 1891)
To Madame Kiselyov (March 11, 1891)
To His Sister (March 16. Midnight)
To His Brother Ivan (March 24, 1891)
To Madame Kiselyov (March 25)
To His Sister (March 25, 1891)
To Madame Kiselyov (April 1, 1891)
To His Sister (April 1, 1891)
To His Brother Mihail (April, 1891)
To His Sister (April 21, 1891)
To A. S. Suvorin (May 7, 1891)
To L. S. Mizinov (May 17, 1891)
To A. S. Suvorin (May 18, 1891)
To L. S. Mizinov (June 12, 1891)
To His Sister (June, 1891)
To Madame Kiselyov (July 20, 1891)
To His Brother Alexandr (July, 1891)
To A. S. Suvorin (July 24, 1891)
To E. M. S. (September 16)
To A. S. Suvorin (October 16, 1891)
To Madame Lintvaryov (October 25, 1891)
To A. S. Suvorin (October 25, 1891)
To E. M. S. (November 19, 1891)
To A. S. Suvorin (November 22, 1891)
To N. A. Leikin (December 2, 1891)
To E. P. Yegorov (December 11, 1891)
To A. I. Smagin (December 11, 1891)
To A. S. Suvorin (December 11, 1891)
To A. I. Smagin (December 16, 1891)
To A. N. Pleshtcheyev (December 25, 1891)
To V. A. Tihonov (February 22, 1892)
To A. S. Kiselyov (March 7, 1892)
To I. L. Shtcheglov (March 9, 1892)
To A. S. Suvorin (March 17, 1892)
To Madame Avilov (March 19, 1892)
To A. S. Suvorin (March, 1892)
To Madame Avilov (April 29, 1892)
To A. S. Suvorin (May 15, 1892)
To L. S. Mizinov (March 27, 1894)
To His Brother Alexandr (April 15, 1894)
To A. S. Suvorin (April 21, 1894)
To Madame Avilov (July, 1894)
To A. S. Suvorin (August 15, 1894)
To His Brother Mihail (October 15, 1896)
To A. S. Suvorin (October 18, 1896)
To His Sister (October 18, 1896)
To His Brother Mihail (October 18, 1896)
To A. S. Suvorin (October 22, 1896)
To E. M. S. (November, 1896)
To A. F. Koni (November 11, 1896)
To V. I. Nemirovitch-Dantchenko (November 26, 1896)
To A. S. Suvorin (January 11, 1897)
TO A. I. Ertel (April 17, 1897)
To Suvorin (July 12, 1897)
To Madame Avilov (October 6, 1897)
To F. D. Batyushkov (December 15, 1897)
To A. S. Suvorin (January 4, 1898)
To F. D. Batyushkov (January 28, 1898)
To A. S. Suvorin (February 6, 1898)
To His Brother Alexandr (February 23, 1898)
To His Brother Mihail (October 26, 1898)
To Gorky (December 3, 1898)
To A. S. Suvorin (January 17, 1899)
To His Brother Mihail (February 6, 1899)
TO I. I. Orlov (February 22, 1899)
To Madame Avilov (March 9, 1899)
To Gorky (April 25, 1899)
To O. L. Knipper (September 30, 1899)
To G. I. Rossolimo (October 11, 1899)
TO O. L. Knipper (October 30, 1899)
To Gorky (January 2, 1900)
TO O. L. Knipper (January 2, 1900)
To A. S. Suvorin (January 8, 1900)
TO P. I. Kurkin (January 18, 1900)
TO V. M. Sobolevsky (January 19, 1900)
TO G. I. Rossolimo (January 21, 1900)
TO O. L. Knipper (January 22, 1900)
To F. D. Batyushkov (January 24, 1900)
To M. O. Menshikov (January 28, 1900)
TO L. S. Mizinov (January 29, 1900)
To Gorky (February 3, 1900)
TO O. L. Knipper (February 10, 1900)
To A. S. Suvorin (February 12, 1900)
TO O. L. Knipper (February 14, 1900)
To Gorky (February 15, 1900)
TO V. A. Posse (February 15, 1900)
To A. S. Suvorin (March 10, 1900)
TO O. L. Knipper (March 26, 1900)
To His Sister (March 26, 1900)
TO O. L. Knipper (May 20, 1900)
To His Sister (September 9, 1900)
To Gorky (October 16, 1900)
To S. P. Dyagilev (December 30, 1902)
To A. S. Suvorin (June 29, 1903)
To S. P. Dyagilev (July 12, 1903)
To K. S. Stanislavsky (July 28, 1903)
To Madame Stanislavsky (September 15, 1903)
To K. S. Stanislavsky (October 30, 1903)
TO V. I. Nemirovich Danchenko (November 2, 1903)
TO A. L. Vishnevsky (November 7, 1903)
To K. S. Stanislavsky (November 10, 1903)
To F. D. Batyushkov (January 19, 1904)
To Madame Avilov (February 14, 1904)
To Father Sergey Shtchukin (May 27, 1904)
To His Sister (Sunday, June 6, 1904)