271. To HIS SISTER MARIA AND HIS WIFE

Written in 1919 or 1920 · First published in the Fourth Edition of the Collected Works. Printed from the original. · page 547 · Translated by The Late George H. Hanna

Maria Ilyinichna
and
Nadezhda Konstantinovna,

Please wake me not later than 10 o’clock in the morning. It is now a quarter past four and I cannot sleep; I am quite well. If you do not wake me I shall lose another day tomorrow and shall not be keeping a proper regimen.