(August 19, 1937)
Comrade Bishi and Comrade Xiaoping:

Mrs. Snow is coming to the front and will stay with our army as a foreign correspondent. Please provide her with assistance on matters such as living expenses.

Salutations!

Mao Zedong
Our source for this text is Mao Zedong junshi wenji, Vol. 2, pp. 32-33, where it is reproduced from a copy in the Central Archives.
1. It is indicated by a conventional character that this telegram was sent between 1:00
and 3:00 P.M.
Our source for this text is Mao Zedong ji. Bujuan, Vol. 5, p. 87, where it is reproduced from
a photocopy of Mao's handwritten original, formerly held at the Hoover Library and Institution. Helen Foster Snow (Nym Wales) never made use of it because Edgar Snow came to
the Border Region, and she traveled with him, rather than going independently to the war
zone as a reporter. She subsequently took back the original from Hoover and presented it to
Deng Xiaoping when she met him during his visit to the United States in 1979.