Source: Tom 17

Tatka!

How was your journey? How are your affairs? What is new? Write about everything, my Tatochka.

I am getting better little by little.

Yours,

Iosif.

Kisses, hard.

2.IX-30

Source: Iosif Stalin in the Embrace of His Family. From the Personal Archive. P. 30. AP RF. F. 45. Op. 1. D. 1550. L. 33.