V. I.

Lenin

242

To:   HIS MOTHER

Saturday, July 26, 1913

Mother dearest, After a fortnight’s “preparation” in the clinic, Nadya
was at last operated on on Wednesday. The operation seems
to have been successful because she looked quite well yesterday, and had begun to drink willingly. It seems to have
been a rather difficult operation, they tormented Nadya
for about three hours without an anaesthetic, but she bore
it bravely. On Thursday she was very bad, a high temperature and delirium, so I was pretty scared. But yesterday
there was an obvious improvement, no fever, the pulse was
slower, etc.

Kocher, of course, is a wonderful surgeon, and anyone with thyroid trouble should go to him; he has a huge
clientele of Russians, of Jews especially.

I am already thinking of the journey back; we expect to leave on August 4 (unless Kocher delays it, which
sometimes happens) and we shall make overnight stops at
Zurich, Munich and Vienna, and go on home from there.
I shall be here long enough to receive another letter from
you, after which you must write to Poronin. If I am delayed
here I will write again.

The suppression of the paper I wrote for [1] leaves me in
a very critical position. I shall try harder than ever to find
publishers and translations; it is very difficult at present
to find any literary work.

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

Yours,

V. U.

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Notes:
[1]
The paper referred to is Pravda , which the tsarist government
suppressed on July 5, 1913, beginning from issue No. 151. On
July 13 the paper re-appeared under a new name— Rabochaya Pravda .