found: Chekhov, the early stories, 1883-88, 1982 (a.e.)t.p. (translated by Patrick Miles)
found: Letter from author, June 16, 1999(Patrick Miles; born 1948; in the 1970s also used pseudonym B.S. Tomkins)
found: What can we hope for?, 2019:t.p. (Patrick Miles) back cover (a Russianist, literary translator, and freelance writer with a lifelong interest in philosophy and religion; he has been a senior research associate at Cambridge University)
found: His personal website, viewed 24 June 2021(Patrick Miles; freelance writer and translator; born 1948 at Sandwich, Kent; writes plays, poems, short stories and essays and is one of the U.K.'s foremost theatre-translators; his first plays and translations were staged by his own theatre company 1974-77, since when he has worked for the Royal National Theatre, Cambridge Theatre Company, the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, and many others; his association with Russia and the work of Anton Chekhov goes back forty years; he has taught Russian translation and literature at Cambridge University, run his own translation agency for twelve years, and now works mainly on his own writing and commissioned literary translations)