_ MELIHOVO,
       October 22, 1896.
       In your last letter (of October 18) you three times call me womanish, and say that I was in a funk. Why this libel? After the performance I had supper at Romanov's. On my word of honour. Then I went to bed, slept soundly, and next day went home without uttering a sound of complaint. If I had been in a funk I should have run from editor to editor and actor to actor, should have nervously entreated them to be considerate, should nervously have inserted useless corrections and should have spent two or three weeks in Petersburg fussing over my "Seagull," in excitement, in a cold perspiration, in lamentation.... When you were with me the night after the performance you told me yourself that it would be the best thing for me to go away; and next morning I got a letter from you to say good-bye. How did I show funk? I acted as coldly and reasonably as a man who has made an offer, received a refusal, and has nothing left but to go. Yes, my vanity was stung, but you know it was not a bolt from the blue; I was expecting a failure, and was prepared for it, as I warned you with perfect sincerity beforehand.
       When I got home I took a dose of castor oil, and had a cold bath, and now I am ready to write another play. I no longer feel exhausted and irritable, and am not afraid that Davydov and Jean will come to me and talk about the play. I agree with your corrections, and a thousand thanks for them. Only please don't regret that you were not at the rehearsals. You know there was in reality only one rehearsal, at which one could make out nothing. One could not see the play at all through the loathsome acting.
       I have got a telegram from Potapenko--"A colossal success." I have had a letter from Mlle. Veselitsky (Mikulitch) whom I don't know. She expresses her sympathy in a tone as if one of my family were dead. It's really quite inappropriate; that's all nonsense, though.
       My sister is delighted with you and Anna Ivanovna, and I am inexpressibly glad of it, for I love your family like my own. She hastened home from Petersburg, possibly imagining that I would hang myself.... _

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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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To A. N. Pleshtcheyev (December 25, 1891)
To V. A. Tihonov (February 22, 1892)
To A. S. Kiselyov (March 7, 1892)
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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)