Letter to Chen Wenxin
(April 29, 1951)
Source: Shuxin. p- 413.
Chen Wenxin was, at the time of this letter, a student at the Agronomics School of

Wuhan University. She is the daughter of Chen Chang, who was a member of the Xin-mine xuehui (New People’ s Study Society) of which Mao was a prominent member, (See
Apr. 9 1951, source note.) Chen Chang, also an early member of the CPC, died

in 1930.

Comrade Wenxin:

I am very happy to have received your letter and your mother’s letter, I hope
that you and your sister will be diligent in your study or work, and, in the
spirit of your departed father, serve the people’s state in its reconstruction,

Please give my best regards to your mother,

I wish you progress.