Source: Tom 17

Hello, Tatka!

I received your letter. Good that you have learned to write substantive letters. From your letter it is clear that the outward appearance of Moscow is beginning to change for the better. At last!

I received the "Workers' Technical School" on electrical engineering. Send me, Tatka, the "Workers' Technical School" on ferrous metallurgy. Be sure to send it (look in my library -- you will find it there).

In Sochi -- nothing new. The Molotovs have left. They say Kalinin is planning to come to Sochi. The weather here is still good, even wonderful. Only a bit dull.

How are you? Have Satanka write me something. And Vaska too.

Continue to "report."

Kisses. Yours, Iosif

14/IX.31

P.S. My health is improving. Slowly, but improving.

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Source: Iosif Stalin in the Embrace of the Family. From the Personal Archive, p. 37. AP RF F. 45. Op. 1. D. 1550. L. 59.