Letter to Yi Nanping [1] (December 30, 1951)  Dear Brother Nanping:  I received your letter of December 26 and was very pleased. I congratulate you on being classified as a middle peasant.  I am deeply grateful for your careful preservation of the old manuscript; it would be most welcome if you could return it to me.  With best regards,  Mao Zedong  December 30, 1951  Printed from the original manuscript.  Notes [1] Yi Nanping was a classmate of Mao Zedong’s at Hunan Provincial No. 1 Normal School.