Letter to Wang Shulan
(May 15, 1951)

Comrade Wang Shulan:

Your letter of May 9 has been received. We welcome the two elder brothers, Wen Jianquan and Wen Yunchang, to come to Beijing for a visit. Please take this telegram to Comrade Liu Daoheng at the United Front Work Department of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, and ask him to purchase two first-class express train tickets for the two Mr. Wens, and to provide some travel expenses as appropriate, so that they may come to Beijing.

Mao Zedong
May 15

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Liu Daoheng (1892–1968), a native of Hengyang, Hunan, was then serving as Deputy Director of the United Front Work Department of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China.

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Lu Lu Island,
Have some, :
May 1951
A group photo of Mao Zedong with his two elder cousins when they visited Beijing.
(From left to right) Jiang Qing, Mao Zedong, Wen Jianquan, Wen Yunchang.