V. I.

Lenin

11

To:   HIS MOTHER

September 7 (August 26), 1895

Today I received your letter with the money, Mother dearest, and thank you for it. I am surprised to hear of
such a great difference in the weather; you write that it is
cold in Moscow, but here it is hotter than it was all through
August, so I thought you were probably still living in the
country.

There have been no changes in my way of life here and
I have got so used to it that I feel myself almost at home
and would willingly stay longer; but the time has come to leave and I am beginning to think of various practical
problems like buying things and a suitcase, and about tickets, etc. Is there anything I can bring you? I can buy
anything here in some big shop; it seems to me manufactured goods here are cheaper than ours and probably better.
Perhaps Mitya needs some books—let him write [for instance he may need some album of anatomy, or something
else to do with medicine] and Manyasha, too. If she has
nothing in mind, you or Anyuta advise me what to bring her.
I feel I should be buying all sorts of stuff.... [1]

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Notes:
[1]
The rest of the letter has been lost.— Ed .