To N. N. Obolonsky, 29 February 1892. Moscow.

the dateline, a short-form repeat of the date, the body, the signature, a closing note of regards and news, an address-side heading ("On the reverse"), the street address, the addressee’s profession, and the addressee’s full name. Dated 29 February 1892 (a leap-year date; the source is internally consistent and this is not a scribal error), from Moscow, to the physician Nikolai Nikolaevich Obolonsky, with whom Chekhov had already corresponded in 1889 (the "Blok & Co." letter, per the existing entity note) and would go on treating as a recurring medical contact and friend.

A brief note of regret: Chekhov cannot after all come to dine at Obolonsky’s, though he says he dreamed all night of the salmon kulebyaka that awaited him there. He has to be in five places on other people’s business and begs off with a mock-legal turn of phrase – forgive "the guilty man who is not to blame." He closes with regards to Obolonsky’s wife, Sofya Vitalievna, and to a second addressee named only by a joking epithet, "the Extraordinary Mind" (Необыкновенному Уму), followed by a one-line note that the actor Pavel Svobodin has not yet arrived. The verso carries the mailing particulars: Tverskaya Street, the Ginzburg house (’s family property, used here only as a street landmark), addressed to "the Doctor, Nikolai Nikolaevich Obolonsky."

Queue note: this is the last letter currently segmented from the 1890-1892 source file (pisma-1890-1892-02.