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Lenin

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To:   HIS SISTER MARIA

Dear Manyasha, I am sending you greetings and all best wishes. I am quite
comfortable and am working on the question of the state,
which has interested me for a long time. [1] ! want to give
you some advice—you absolutely must go away for medical
treatment. There is nothing much doing at the present time, troubled though it is, and you must use it to get your
leg and your nerves treated. I ask you very, very sincerely
to go away—immediately and without fail. You can take a translation or some fiction with you, so that you will be
better able to stand the boredom that to a certain extent
is inevitable during medical treatment. But you absolutely
must go. Please do as I ask and drop me a line in reply. I
embrace you fondly.

Yours,

Ulyanov

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Notes:
[1]
Lenin refers here to his book The State and Revolution. The Marxist Theory of the State and the Tasks of the Proletariat in the Revolution , on which he was working in August and September 1917