Tatka!

Write something. Be sure to write and send it through the NKID channel, addressed to Tovstukha (at the CC). How was your journey, what have you seen, have you been to the doctors, what is the doctors' opinion about your health, and so on -- write.

We will open the Congress on the 26th. Things are going quite well for us.

It is very dull here, Tatochka. I sit at home alone, like an owl. I have not gone to the countryside yet -- too much work. I have finished my own task. I plan to go out to the countryside to see the children tomorrow or the day after.

Well, goodbye. Don't stay away too long, come back soon.

Ki-ss-es

Yours,

Iosif.

Source: Iosif Stalin in the Embrace of His Family. From the Personal Archive. P. 29.

AP RF. F. 45. Op. 1. D. 1550. L. 30.