V. I.

Lenin

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To:   F. N. SAMOILOV

Dear Fyodor Nikitich, I received your letter and am very glad that you are fixed up.

Now—quiet, sunshine, sleep, food . Take care of all this. Do
they give you enough to eat?

You should drink more milk . Do you?

You should weigh yourself once a week and make a note of it each time.

You should go and see a local doctor at least once in 10 days, so that
he can check the progress of your cure. Have you the doctor’s address? If
you haven’t, write to me and I shall find it out for you.

The main thing is sleep ( how many
[ hours ] [1] do you sleep ?), sun and [food], especially milk .

Write to me about this in detail .

Nadya sends her regards. All the best, and wishing you a good rest.

Yours, Lenin

P.S. You don’t feel too lonely, do you? If you do, I can arrange for
friends from Geneva and Lausanne to visit you. Wouldn’t visitors tire you?
Write!

Is there a bath in your pension?

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Notes:
[1]
The edges of the manuscript are torn. Words in square brackets have
been inserted as context suggests.— Ed .