V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v55;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

March 17, 1899

I received your letter of February 28 yesterday, dear Mamma. Many, many thanks for your photograph. I think it has turned out quite well, and I was all the more glad to have it because the photograph I have is rather old. It would be very nice indeed if you could manage to visit us in Shusha—travel is comparatively comfortable in summer: by rail to Krasnoyarsk and then by steamer to Minusinsk (at the beginning of May steamers usually do not yet go as far as Minusinsk, but in summer they sometimes go even to Shusha—though rarely). For a summer stay Shusha is not bad.

Gleb and Basil are also putting in a petition for permission to transfer here for the summer (it is very bad in Minusinsk in summer); I don’t know whether they will be allowed to.* Manyasha wrote to us recently, and we are writing to her today too.

Ye. V. has received the money.

It is good that Mitya intended to go for the gun soon after your letter.

The hunting season begins here at the end of March, and we are already talking about various hunting expeditions.

I kiss you warmly and congratulate you on your name-day. This letter may perhaps arrive before April 1.

Yours, V. U.

Ye. V. sends greetings; Nadya is writing to you today.**

To Anyuta

I have received No. 153 of the *Izvestia*—many thanks for them—and the fair copies of the sheets.*** On the whole I am very satisfied with them: the edition is coming out clean, the tables are clear and without misprints, and there are very few side-tables. I wonder how the diagram has turned out? I am sending a list of misprints in sheets 4-11. Some have crept in (those I have underlined) which make reading difficult or alter the sense (though there are very few of these). Perhaps you will find it convenient to do this: in addition to the list of misprints at the end of the book, insert (paste in) a slip at the beginning asking the reader to correct the most important misprints before reading, stating that those underlined are essential, while the rest are indicated at the end of the book. I think this is sometimes done.

Since no edition is ever conceivable without misprints, I can say (contrary to your expectation) that I feel fully satisfied. This edition cannot be compared in accuracy with the *Studies*; the misprints are few, and most of them are quite unimportant.

As for the table of contents, do as you like: whether to confine it to the paragraphs alone or to add the detailed contents I have drawn up.****

I am sending a list of my acquaintances to whom I shall ask you to send the book when it appears. Mitya will have a job sending off such a pile of printed matter by book-post! But it is still better than sending a lot here (three copies are enough for me).

I am also sending a postscript to the preface. If it is not too late, I should very much like to have it printed, so that I can refer to Kautsky’s remarkable book.***** Perhaps, even if the preface has already been set up, it may be possible to set the postscript as well? Please write to me when you receive this letter whether it is possible and when the book is expected to be finished generally.

And V. A-ch has also had his share of work! The proof-reading of such a thing must be very difficult!!

I press your hand and send greetings to all our folk.

Yours, V. U.

Columbus and the doctor have not written to me for a long time.

To Anyuta:

I have another request to make of you. Perhaps you will be in St. Petersburg or see the author, so please make inquiries about Webb’s book. Why has no fee been paid for it so far, which, according to Nadya, was agreed upon irrespective of whether the book appears or not? We ought to get the money out of O. Popova. We are not writing to the author about this, because we consider it not quite convenient to raise this question in writing. This is only in case an opportunity for a personal meeting presents itself.

Page 51, line 17 from bottom. Instead of “zamyetili” read “zametil”.
” 52, ” 12 from top. Delete the bracket: ).
” ” ” 30 ” After the word “zemli” add a semicolon: ;
” 59, ” 6 ” Instead of “byednostye” read “byednotye”.
” 61, ” 2 ” Instead of “23,547” read “23,574”.
” 68, ” 4 from bottom (in the note). Instead of “krestyan” read “krestyanskoi”.
” 69, ” 2 ” Instead of “Korotoyanskomu” read “Korotoyakskomu”*.
” 70, ” 1 from top. Delete the comma after the word “svedenii”.
” 79, ” 4 from bottom. Instead of “strany, “no” read “strany”, no”.
” 86, ” 13 ” Insert quotation marks (“) before the word: “ostavlyayushchaya”.
” 88, ” 8 ” Instead of “davno” read “daleko”.
” 115, ” 8 ” Instead of “raskrestyanstvovaniye” read “raskrestyanivaniye”.
” 117, ” 9 ” After the word “renty” insert a colon: “:”.
” 119, ” 3 from top. Instead of “chto” read “eto”.
” 120, ” 1 from bottom. Before the word “nechto” insert a bracket: [.
” 121, ” 4 ” Instead of [“sr. u nas tryokhdnevniki”] read [sr. u nas “tryokhdnevniki”].
” 121, ” 1 from top. Instead of “govorili” read “govorim”.
” 124, ” 8 ” Instead of “perevoskhodnom” read “prevoskhodnym”.
” 134, ” 6 ” Delete the comma after the word “neobkhodimo”.
” 138, ” 3 from bottom. Instead of “stoyat” read “sostoyat”.
” 142, ” 1 from top. Delete the dash after the word: “etogo”.
” 144, ” 4 from bottom. Instead of “etom” read “tom”.
” ” ” 5 ” Instead of “podzemelnye” read “podzemnye”.
” 151, ” 13 from top. After the word: “puda” insert: “i”.
” 161, ” 6 from bottom. After the word: “krizis” insert: “yest krizis”.
” 162, ” 6 from bottom. Before the word “vladelets” insert quotation marks: “.
” 168, ” 16 from top. Instead of “Chaslovsky” read “Chaslavsky”.
” 169, ” 4 from bottom. Instead of “sostavyat” read “sostavlyayet”.
” 170, ” 13 ” Instead of “sostavyat” read “sostavlyayet”.
” 172, ” 4 from top. Delete the quotation marks before: “okolo” and after: “krestyanstva”.
” 174, ” 11 ” Instead of “inoi” read “etoi”.
” ” ” 5 from bottom. Instead of “dat” read “dash”.

* Permission was not granted. *Ed.*
** The letter has not been preserved. *Ed.*
*** The fair copies of Chapters II and III of *The Development of Capitalism in Russia*. *Ed.*
**** See pp. 593-606 of this volume. *Ed.*
***** K. Kautsky, *Die Agrarfrage*. *Ed.*