V. I.

Lenin

141

To:   HIS MOTHER

September 14, 1902

Mother dearest, We were all extremely glad to receive your telegram
and later your postcard. Did you continue your journey comfortably? Wasn’t it too tiring? Please drop me a couple
of lines about this when you have rested and have settled
down a bit.

Anyuta’s photographs (the ones she sent, I mean) arrived
in good time and in good condition. [1]

There have been no changes here. We are all well. The weather here is surprisingly fine for autumn—it must be
compensation for a bad summer. Nadya and I have often been out locally in search of “real countryside” and have
found it.

I embrace you fondly, my dear, and send my very best regards to Manyasha and Anya.

Yours,

V. U.

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Notes:
[1]
This refers to photographs of Lenin’s elder brother, Alexander
Ulyanov, that his sister Anna sent him; she was afraid to carry
them across the frontier because of the possibility of being arrested.