V. I.

Lenin

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To:   HIS SISTER MARIA

Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova, Kostomarovsky Street, 15, Apt. 336, Syromyatniki, Moscow, Russia

Expédié par Wl. Oulianoff, Distelweg, 11, Berne, Switzerland

December 22

Dear Manyasha, I was very glad to receive your letter of November 14
which arrived today. You addressed it to our old apartment; our present address is Distelweg, 11.

I will try to find out whether or not there is a bureau
here that can give information about Russian prisoners of war, and also about that particular prisoner you are
interested in. [1] Perhaps because of the coming holidays
I shall not be able to find out immediately, but in any case
I will try.

We are living fairly well, quietly and peacefully in sleepy
Berne. The libraries here are good, and I have made quite
decent arrangements as far as the use of books is concerned.
It is even pleasant to read after my daily newspaper work.
There is a pedagogical library here for Nadya and she is
writing something on pedagogy.

I wrote asking Anyuta whether it is possible to find a publisher for an agrarian book; I could write one here.
If you have an opportunity to do so, would you, too, try
to find out?

Why didn’t you write anything about yourself—how are you keeping? Are you earning anything? How much,
where, and is it enough? Drop me a line if you can.

Very best regards, Yours,

V. Ulyanov

Nadya and Y.V. send best regards.

If you have an opportunity, please find out (if it is not
too much trouble) whether Granat received my article on
Marx. I would like to get some work for the Encyclopaedic
Dictionary, but it is probably not easy to arrange unless
you have an opportunity to meet the secretary of the editorial board.