Letter from the Chazon Ish - Instructing a Sick Person Not to Fast on Tisha B'Av

Letter from the Chazon Ish - Instructing a Sick Person Not to Fast on Tisha B'Av
Postcard with a letter (approx. 5 lines) handwritten and signed by R. Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz author of Chazon Ish. [Bnei Brak, date not indicated].
Addressed to his renowned disciple, R. Shraga Steinberg, who had travelled to Safed to convalesce. The Chazon Ish was concerned that he might fast on Tisha B'AV, and therefore wrote to him: "Shalom. I am not in good health therefore I am unable to write at length; I am hurrying so that you do not fast on Tisha B'Av. One who seeks your wellbeing, Ish".
On the verso of the postcard, name and address of recipient: "Mr. Shraga Steinberg, Beit Yosef Yeshiva, Avritcher courtyard, Safed", and name and address of sender: "Rabbi Karelitz, Bnei Brak" (some of these inscriptions were presumably handwritten by the Chazon Ish himself).
R. Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz (1879-1953), author of Chazon Ish, a foremost scholar in Halacha and Jewish philosophy in our generations. A preeminent Torah scholar and hidden righteous man, his first book Chazon Ish was published in 1911 anonymously, and he thereafter became known under that title. In his exceptional modesty, he would sign his name with his acronym only: "Ish". He immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1933, where he became recognized as the leading Torah authority, and stood at the helm of the resurrection of the Torah world in our generation.
Postcard. 13.5X9.5 cm. Fair condition. Dampstains on text. Creases.
Published in Kovetz Igrot Chazon Ish, II, letter 116 (in the footnote: "To a sick person, so that he should not fast on Tisha B'Av).