Letter to Wen Jiuming
(October 25, 1953)

Source: Shuxin, p. 471.

Comrade Jiuming:

I have received your letter of October 2. You appear to have some opinions
about the conditions in our home village to tell me; you may come to the capital for a trip [to do this). You must furnish your own fare for the journey, and I
will reimburse you for it later. Mao Zerong, whose nickname is Songwu,' is
my brother, He lives outside the Xian gate of Shaoshan xiang]. He has
written me many times indicating a desire to come to the capital. Please look
him up and come with him, He has never left home, so please give him whatever assistance you can. He, too, should furnish his own fare, and I will also
reimburse him later. When you come, don't ask the United Front Department
of the Provincial Party Committee for assistance if you can manage without
them, but if you cannot raise the funds for the trip, then you may bring this letter to the comrades in the United Front Department and ask them to give you
Some help. It will be cold on the trip, so each of you should bring a thin
Cotton quilt blanket, Don't bring any presents; this is most important. Other
People must not come with you.

Mao Zedong

October 4, 1953

hehe be best if you can arrive at the capital by the early part of

T.

Notes

424 / MAO ZEDONG
--- Notes

According to the source, Wen Jiuming is Mao's nephew.


5 See text Oct. 2, 1952. note 5
> The emphasis is in the Shuxin original