Objects

The letter from a husband to his wife, written from the Soviet Union, Marcin Ratz was there for work at the time of writing for two months, according to the letter. The letter is written on a card with oblong boxes, written on both sides; part of the envelope with a stamp is cut off. The letter is addressed to Warsaw, where the family had been living since 1949; Marcin Ratz, as head of a group of engineers, got a job in Żerań. The Moscow letter begins with reproaches: "I don't understand why you write so rarely. After all, you could probably spare half an hour twice a week. After all, when I am at home you devote more or less that much time to me. You also have something to write about. I am quite well, only my teeth have started to chatter again, I am swollen and I do not go out. I have been in Moscow since the 16th, I arrived in a ZIM [most probably a brand of Soviet passenger car, produced in the city of Gorki - ed. I have not been to any theatre yet, secondary to these teeth. Today, i.e. Sunday, I am sitting in my room all day, reading and taking sulphidine. On Tuesday evening I want to go [back] to Gorky. Life at the factory is pretty monotonous, in the evenings I read, I don't go anywhere. [...] I would like to be back home and see you".