To Al. P. Chekhov, 28 February 1892. Moscow.

dateline, a short-form repeat of the date, mailing instructions, an address supplied on request, a note about the new fish stock, a one-line fact about the estate’s firefighting equipment, closing regards, and a mock-formal signature. Dated 28 February 1892, from Moscow, to Alexander Pavlovich Chekhov – a companion letter to (23 February, same addressee), which first announced the Melikhovo purchase; this one follows up five days later with practical particulars, not a duplicate of that letter or of (also 28 February but addressed to A. S. Suvorin, an unrelated letter to a different correspondent written the same day).

Chekhov continues the fireman joke from the earlier letter – hailing Alexander, editor of the fire-safety journal "Pozharny" ("The Fireman"), as a "literary fire-chief" and telling him, in mock solemnity, to brand the new mailing addresses onto his own chest rather than lose them. He gives two addresses for two purposes: Lopasnya station for ordinary mail and the journal, Serpukhov (the village of Melikhovo) for insured post and parcels, noting the family will be at the station daily but in town only once a week. He answers an evident query from Alexander with the address of one Glebov, a tailor in Moscow. The remaining sections are terse estate notes: tench purchased and released into the garden pond (fishable from the window), with a plan to make the pond flow-through so sterlet can eventually be raised there too, and a one-line reassurance that the estate already has a fire hose – a small in-joke given Alexander’s new professional obsession. The letter closes with brief regards and signs off simply as "Your A. Chekhov."