V. I.

Lenin

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To:   HIS MOTHER

Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova, Shirokaya Street, 48/9, Apt. 24, Peterburgskaya Storona, Petrograd, Russia

Ulianow, Seidenweg, 4a III , Berne

October 7, 1915

Mother dearest, Nadya and I moved a few days ago to Berne. We wanted
to stay longer in
Sörenberg, [2] but it was snowing there and the cold was just impossible. This year autumn is very
cold, and Sörenberg has a mountain climate. We have found a nice room here with electricity and bath for 30
francs. Nadya has put on quite a lot of weight; the palpitation has gone; she has even been up the mountains—let’s
hope there is no recurrence of that thyroid trouble.

How are you all getting on? Have you made good arrangements for the winter? Are you keeping well, and is the
apartment warm? We thank Anyuta very, very, very much for the book, for the most interesting collection of
pedagogical publications and for the letter. [1]

I wrote to her about a publisher and am now awaiting an
answer. [3] How is
Manyasha? If you can, send her this letter; I should be
glad to get a line from her too. Give or send our best regards
to Mitya and Mark. I should be very grateful for a subscription to Rech (Anyuta wrote that she intended
subscribing). There are not many newspapers, books or pamphlets in Russian, we see very few and thirst for them. Has

Anyuta received my list of “the desirable” that I sent her
a long time ago? (i.e., desirable Russian books). I send
you many kisses and embrace you fondly. Anyuta, too.
So does Nadya.

Yours,

V. Ulyanov

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Notes:
[1]
Apparently a letter in invisible ink.— Ed .

[2]
Early in June 1915 Lenin and Krupskaya had left Berne for the
mountain village of Sorenberg, where they spent the summer.

[3]
The letter has been lost. Lenin was looking for a publisher for