V. I.

Lenin

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To:   HIS SISTER MARIA

Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova, Samarin’s House, Apt. 3, Moskovskaya Street, Vologda, Russia

Dear Manyasha, I received your letter a few days after I had posted you
a letter from Nadya and me.

You make me ashamed of myself for my silence. I really am at fault—there has been a lot of bother over our moving
and because of the influenza. Now Y.V. here is ill—she has had a very bad attack of influenza but is now recovering .

You ask about new German literature. I have just finished reading the four volumes of the Marx-Engels
correspondence. I want to write about it in
Prosveshcheniye . [1]
There is much of interest. It is a pity the publishers—
those Bosches!—charge such a price for it—40 marks! I have not yet read Beer’s new History of Socialism in England , but I soon shall.

Cunow’s book on the origin of religion appeared recently.
I would send it to you (I can buy it) but I am afraid it
would not reach you. If you receive or can obtain Neue Zeit ,
there is a list in it of all the interesting things. I do not see
any new bourgeois literature. If you like I can send you a
list of all new books in German (a small publication I get every
month, it is put out by Hinrichs, a bookseller in Leipzig).

All the best. Give Mother many kisses for me and for
Nadya.

Yours,

V. U.

It is a long time since I had word from Anyuta.

I am reading Octave Mirbeau’s Dingo . In my opinion it is no good.

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Notes:
[1]
In September 1913, four volumes of the Marx-Engels correspondence were published in German. Lenin planned a big work about
this correspondence, the beginning of which was his article “The