Hello, mama -- my dear!

How are you living, how is your health?

I was ill recently. Now I feel well.

Nadya has gone to Moscow. And I too will leave for Moscow very soon.

Live a thousand years.

Yours,

Soso.

16/IX-30

Source: Iosif Stalin in the Embrace of His Family. From the Personal Archive. Pp. 14-15. AP RF. F. 45. Op. 1. D. 1549. L. 38-39.