Complete Works of Anton Chekhov

TO N. A. LEIKIN.

MOSCOW,

April 6, 1886.

… I am ill. Spitting of blood and weakness. I am not writing anything…. If I don’t sit down to write to-morrow, you must forgive me — I shall not send you a story for the Easter number. I ought to go to the South but I have no money…. I am afraid to submit myself to be sounded by my colleagues. I am inclined to think it is not so much my lungs as my throat that is at fault…. I have no fever.