V. I.

Lenin

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To:   HIS MOTHER

August 26

Yesterday, Mother dearest, I received your telegram of the 21st about Mitya’s release and also your letter and
Anyuta’s. I was very glad to get all the news, especially
about Mitya. His being released means the investigation
is finished; now it will be interesting to know what the
prosecuting authority is preparing for him, [3] I am waiting
for news of how you are getting fixed up for the winter.

Anyuta’s letter is very interesting and I was very glad
to learn that my fears of a fiasco were premature. [1]

I am sending a registered package (to the same address as the
letter) containing the manuscript of an article written a
few days ago. Please send it on to the écrivain with a request
to try and place it somewhere; if it is too late for the
collection of articles, try one of the journals ( Mir Bozhy , or
perhaps Nauchnoye Obozreniye would be more convenient). [4]
I don’t know whether it is convenient for me to send manuscripts direct to St. Petersburg. I did that with Webb
because the deadline (September 1) was only a fortnight
away, but I don’t know whether it gave rise to any dissatisfaction there. For the time being I shall continue
sending them to you.

I have already written about having received
Gumplowicz, Shakhov, Wolfe’s Izvestiya and books from Friedmann.

I thank “Auntie” [2] very much for her regards, etc. It is a pity that there are only regards. I am not at all to blame
that I “do not reply”. What does Anyuta think? Should
I answer now or would it be better to wait, if I have to ?

The weather here is showing signs of autumn, although the last few days have been very fine. That our house will
not be a suitable one to winter in is something we do not
think about and are not afraid of. It is always possible to
find other lodgings.

Yours,

V. U.

What about Manyasha? Is she still hesitating or has she at last come to a decision?

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Notes:
[1]
This is a reference to the publication of Economic Studies and Essays .— Ed .

[2]
A. M. Kalmykova.— Ed .

[3]
Dmitry Ulyanov was banished to Tula and was then kept under
police surveillance at Podolsk in Moscow Gubernia.

[4]
The article referred to is “On the Question of Our Factory
Statistics (Professor Karyshev’s New Statistical Exploits)”—see
Collected Works , Vol. 4, pp. 13–45. Lenin made extensive use of the
material contained in this article and the conclusions drawn from
it in The Development of Capitalism in Russia . The article was
not published either in Mir Bozhy or Nauchnoye Obozreniye
but first appeared in Economic Studies and Essays

Mir Bozhy (The Wide World—literally God’s World)—a liberal
literary and popular scientific monthly. It was published in St.
Petersburg from 1892 to 1906; from 1906 to 1918 it appeared
under the name of Sovremenny Mir (The Contemporary World).

Nauchnoye Obozreniye (Science Review)—published in St.
Petersburg from 1894 to 1904; from 1903 it became a general literary
magazine. It published Lenin’s articles “Uncritical Criticism”