February 1920

## 43401

Dear Friend!

I wanted to call you, having heard that you were ill, but the telephone is not working. Give me the number, I will have it fixed.

What is wrong with you? Write 2 words about your health and other matters.

Greetings! Lenin

## 43405

Dear Friend!

Write, please, what is wrong with you. Times are bad: typhus, influenza, Spanish flu, cholera.

I have just gotten up and am not going out. Nadya has 39° and she asked to see you.

How many degrees do you have?

Is there nothing you need for treatment? I very much ask you to write frankly.

Get well!

Your Lenin

## 43402

Dear Friend!

Write whether the doctor came and what he said.

You must follow it exactly.

The telephone is broken again. I have had it repaired and ask your daughters to call me about your health.

You must follow exactly everything the doctor said.

(Nadya had 37.3 in the morning. Now 38).

Your Lenin

## 43416

February 16-17, 1920

To go out with a temperature of 38° (and up to 39°) is absolute madness! I urgently ask you not to go out and tell your daughters that I ask them to watch and not to let you out

1) until complete restoration of normal temperature
and 2) until the doctor's permission.

Answer me on this without fail, precisely.

(Nadezhda Konstantinovna had 39.7 this morning, February 16, now in the evening 38.2. Doctors came: quinsy. They will treat. I am completely well).

Your Lenin

Today, the 17th, Nadezhda Konstantinovna already has 37.3.