To Al. P. Chekhov, 10 November 1887. Moscow.

1 Written from Moscow on 10 November 1887 to Chekhov’s elder brother Alexander in Petersburg, this short note continues the running business correspondence between the brothers – Anton addresses him with the joking nickname "Guskov" and opens with mock-medical banter about the health of Alexander’s children (affectionately called "pups") before turning to real errands: collecting a small unpaid fee from the offices of "Novoye Vremya" and distributing printed copies (presumably of a play or story) through the Petersburg printing firm of Golike and Petersen.

2 The letter’s urgency is explained by: one of Chekhov’s plays was being staged that week in Saratov, but under the rules of the Russian Dramatic Society he could not collect royalties from provincial productions without paying a small membership fee, which he could not yet afford. The note closes, as often with Alexander, in a mix of mock-Latin signature ("Tuus Antonio" – "Your Antonio"), a request for a newspaper clipping, and the bare postal address on the reverse of the sheet, preserved here as its own section per the source.