V. I.

Lenin

30

To:   HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW AND HIS SISTER MARIA

September 7

I am sending you a registered package, Mark, containing
my
article. [1]

Please send it on to the writer as quickly as you can (it is already late) together with the enclosed letter
to
him. [3]

At last, on September 5, I received Novoye Slovo for
June. I am afraid another copy will come from you—what should I do with it?

The next half of this letter is for Manyasha, from whom
I received a letter dated 18 (30) August postmarked
Lausanne. I hope our people are all home again by this time.

All the best,

V. U.

I read in Russkiye Vedomosti that the statisticians in
Tula have not been confirmed. [4] Was the Chicagoan among
their number? Why did he not answer my second letter sent through Manyasha from
Krasnoyarsk? [2]

What is the library situation like?

September 7, 1897

Manyasha, On September 5 I received your letter of 18 (30). Thanks.
That was an excellent idea to take excursion tickets to see
all Switzerland.

I am very glad that you have begun to enjoy being abroad. What are your plans for the winter? You are probably
busy now searching for an apartment. The problem of finding
accommodation in a big city is a difficult and tedious business! You are probably running around searching, if Mark
and Mitya have not yet found anything for you.

Mother’s letter, in which she spoke about her petition,
I received and answered immediately. [5] The efforts made by
Gleb and Basil to get transferred to Minusinsk have not
come to anything although they were very energetic about
it. [6] I am not trying to get a transfer and so far do not
intend to; I have no complaints to make about Shu-shu-shu
and I do not like that state of uncertainty when you start
making applications, get excited waiting for a reply, keep
getting ready to leave and so on.

Well, all the best. I have not written much because today
I am late with the despatch of my article and am in a great
hurry. Kiss Mother.

V. U.

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Notes:
[1]
In case of emergencies , and for a check, let me tell you that
it consists of 130 numbered pages.— Lenin

[2]
The Chicagoan—V. A. Yonov. His correspondence has been lost.— Ed .

[3]
Lenin sent Mark Yelizarov “The Handicraft Census of 1894–95
in Perm Gubernia” to be passed on to P. B. Struve; the letter to
Struve has been lost.

[4]
Lenin here refers to a report from Tula published in the “Homo
News” column of the newspaper Russkiye Vedomosti for August
6, 1897. The report spoke of an investigation to be carried out by the Zemstvo authorities of the gubernia for the purpose of making
an assessment of property. The gubernia Zemstvo engaged a
number of statisticians for this work but for some reason they were
not confirmed by the local administration and the investigation
was postponed until the following year.

[5]
On August 6, 1897, Lenin’s mother sent the Governor of
Yeniseisk a petition to have Lenin transferred to Krasnoyarsk for
treatment on account of his poor health and because of her wish
to visit him in exile. Her request was refused. Lenin’s letter to
his mother, mentioned here, has been lost.

[6]
After a number of applications the Governor of Yeniseisk
permitted G. M. Krzhizhanovsky and V. V. Starkov to move to
Minusinsk; they arrived there on August 31, 1898.