...I thank you greatly for the troubles you've taken concerning my Hypochondriac. Following your advice I started a re-write, but found myself at a loss as to what exactly is here to be changed. You told me to try and appease my critics, but those were few. Fore example, ''Sovremennik'' said that the comedy's plot lacked the starting point. This may be so, but to do something about it is now impossible. ''Biblioteka Dlya Chtenya'' heaped a pile of rubbish. ''Otechestvennye Zapiski'' sported some jaundice, but nothing apart from that. I doubt that from all this one could pick a single advise to follow. There's just one thing: for me (play ) looks a bit too long and so I am going to make some cuts.〔