Letter to Lin Ke [l] Requesting Three Books, Including “The Communist Manifesto”
(August 3, 1964)

Comrade Lin Ke:

I would like to locate a copy of “Water Margin” annotated by Jin Shengtan for another read. I also need a new large-print edition of “The Communist Manifesto” and another on Lenin’s thesis that imperialism is the dying stage of capitalism. Please see to it that these are obtained.

[1]
Lin Ke was at the time the secretary of Mao Zedong’s office.
[2]
Jin Shengtan was a literary critic active during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
Mao Zedong
August 3rd