V. I.

Lenin

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To:   HIS SISTER MARIA

Her Excellency Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova, Pavlovskaya Street, 6, Apt. 16, Peterburgskaya Storona, St. Petersburg, Russia

February 7, 1908

Dear Manyasha, I have received your letter of January 20, a letter from
the young writer on the same subject, and today I received
Rech . [2] I am very, very grateful for the newspaper, the
article is really extremely interesting!

Yesterday I also received a letter from a colleague about
Granat. Things are working out quite well for me there.

As regards our marriage lines and the palm oil wanted in Krasnoyarsk, I propose that you should not take too
much trouble or give any large quantity of palm oil. It
looks as if we shall manage without it.

In a month, if not sooner , we intend to set up our own
apartment here.

With regard to the symposium in memory of Marx, it does not seem likely that I shall take part in it, either;
such things cannot be written in a hurry. [3]

Our people are taking a surprisingly long time to get well! It’s too bad. The influenza this year must be
particularly malignant, or else you are having very bad weather.
Write and tell me how Mother is.

I have not yet fully settled down here—for instance, I have not yet joined my “club”, where it is convenient
to read periodicals and easy to obtain new books. [4] I
shall try (as soon as I have joined—probably in a day or
two) to find whatever I can for you to translate. Do you
receive Neue Zeit ? In the science supplement to No. 1 there
is an article by Kautsky “Nationalität und
Internationalist”. I have not yet seen it. Is it not suitable for
translation? I have read Kautsky’s Sozialismus und Kolonialpolitik (a new pamphlet of 80 pages). I think it would be
permitted. Talk to
Zerno [1]
[5]

about it; it would be a good thing to translate it. I am also surprised that no announcement
is to be seen of a translation of Parvus’s Kolonialpolitik und Zusammenbruch . Has no one any initiative? Ask Zerno .
I could get in touch with the author here, abroad.

All the best, kiss Mother for me.

Yours,

V. Ulyanov

P.S. I have not received Bench’s Selected Works .

Of the trade union journals I have received Gudok and
Tekstilnoye delo . In future please send all such publications.

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Notes:
[1]
Please ask them at the same time whether I may send new things
for you to their address, things that may be suitable for translation.— Lenin

[2]
Rech (Speech)—organ of the Constitutional-Democratic (Cadet)
Party published daily in St. Petersburg. Lenin probably referred
to Rech No. 12 of January 15 (28), 1908, which carried an article
entitled “Resolution of the Baku Social-Democrats Against
Expropriation and Terror”.

[3]