**Letter to Zhang Wei [1] (December 14, 1963)**

Comrade Chuheng:
Your several letters and the attachments have all been received. I am extremely grateful for your profound friendship and kind concern for politics, health work, and my personal methods of health preservation! I apologize for not having replied for so long, and beg your forgiveness. I respectfully wish you a gradual recovery from your illness. And please convey my regards to Madam Wei!

Mao Zedong
December 14, 1963

Published based on the manuscript.

**Note**
[1] Zhang Wei, also known as Zhang Chuheng, from Liuyang, Hunan. He had considerable contact with Mao Zedong in earlier years. He was then a professor at the Shanghai Second Military Medical University.