To Wu Liangping¹
(June 15, 1938)

Comrade Liangping,

I have received a letter from an American sympathizer and I want to ask you to
draft a letter of reply. Apart from expressing thanks to her, the letter may describe
the circumstances of the Eighth Route Army's participation in the anti-Japanese
war, ask her to tell our American brothers and sisters to provide more assistance to
us, and state that we and they stand by each other. How are you? Please let me
know.

Salutations!

Mao Zedong

Our source for this text is Mao Zedong junshi wenji, Vol. 2, pp. 353-54, where it is reproduced from a copy in the Central Archives.

Our source for this letter is Mao Zedong shuxin xuanji, p. 129, where it is reproduced from
the manuscript.
1. Wu Liangping was at this time editor of the Party's weekly organ Jiefang in Yan'an.