V. I.

Lenin

216

To:   HIS MOTHER

Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova, Pankratyevskaya Street, 7, Apt. 5, Saratov, Russia

January 19, 1911

Mother dearest, We have just received your letter. Nadya thanks you
very much for it and sends her regards. As for me, I am
hurrying to correct the misunderstanding which, it seems,
I was the unwitting cause of. Please do not send me any
money. I am not now in need. I wrote that neither my book
nor my article had been accepted—that was in one of my recent letters. But in the last letter I wrote that they say
that my article will be accepted. I have written to
Gorky [1] about the book and hope for a favourable reply. In any
case my situation is not now any worse; at the moment
I am not in need. I beg you, my dear, not to send anything
and not to try to save anything from your pension. If things
get bad I will write quite frankly, but at the moment they
are not. It is not easy to find a publisher, but I shall keep
on seeking—furthermore, I continue to receive the “sala-
ry” [6] I told you about in Stockholm. So please do not.
worry.

Nadya has written twice to Manyasha and will write today for the third
time. [2]

Does Manyasha get the letters?

I am very glad that Mitya sends good news about his transfer. [3]

Best regards to Mark and Anyuta from all of us here.

We are all quite well. No changes to report. Yesterday
I delivered a lecture here on Tolstoi—I shall perhaps deliver the lecture in several Swiss
towns. [4]

The weather here is not bad. Dry and cold (our apartment is very warm) and it is pleasant out walking.

I embrace you fondly, my dear, and hope you keep well.

Yours,

V. U.

P.S. Tanya’s mother in Moscow has been taken ill. [5]

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Notes:
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