Letter to Yu Liqun [1)
(July 26, 1965)
Comrade Liqun:
I have read your letter of the sixteenth day of the eighth month in 1964, as well as the more than one hundred and fifty sheets of twelve-foot xuan paper on which you painstakingly wrote those poor poems about me. I am very pleased by them. However, as a bureaucrat that I am, it has taken me a full year to reply, which is really unacceptable. Please forgive me. Your calligraphy is excellent, and using this opportunity to rest your mind, divert your energy, and improve your health is indeed a good thing.
Wishing you good health during the summer!
And may Old Master Guo [2] enjoy peace and good fortune!
Mao Zedong
July 26, 1965
[1]
Yu Liqun, a calligrapher and the wife of Guo Moruo.
[2]
Refers to Guo Moruo, a historian and writer who at that time served as President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The handwritten draft of Mao Zedong’s letter to Yu Liqun.

On July 26, 1965, Mao Zedong met with U Nu, Chairman of the Burmese Revolutionary Council, who was visiting China at the invitation of the Chinese government.
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