Letter to Mao Yuanxiang
(May 12, 1950)

Dear Nephew Yuanxiang,

I have received your two letters and am very pleased. You should try to find work in Hunan and not come to Beijing. Here there are more people than jobs, and it is difficult to place you. Your writing is already passable. If you study hard, you will make even greater progress.

This is my reply. I wish you well!

Mao Zedong
May 12, 1950

P.S. I have received the photograph of your parents. Please convey my greetings to them.