V. I.

Lenin

178

To:   HIS SISTER ANNA

Dear Anyuta, Yesterday we sent you a telegram and got a reply
today. [2]
Manyasha has been and still is eager to leave at once, but
I think she now agrees to wait for a letter. How is Mother
now? I read Mitya’s letter and I ask him to write to us regularly now; as a doctor he is better able to see, especially
after consultations with specialists, what course the disease
is taking and I ask him especially to inform us more often ,
even if only in a brief letter. Please farm out the proofs—
it is absolutely heartless to plant them on you at such a
time. You have the manuscript, so hire some student, etc.,
(or through the “writer” [1]

,

etc.) as the last proof-reader, give him my address and don’t waste your attention on
the correcting of proofs. You have enough to worry about
without that.... Give Mother many, many kisses. Everyone
sends very best regards.

Mark does not want to go until his time is up; he says times are such that he will not be allowed in the capital
in any case.

All the best, Yours,

V. Ulyanov

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Notes:
[1]
I. I. Skvortsov-Stepanov, who rendered substantial assistance
in getting Materialism and Empirio-criticism published.— Ed .

[2]
The telegram has been lost. It inquired about the health of Lenin’s
mother, who was ill at the time.