Written: Written December 22, 1914
Published:
First published in 1929 in the journal Proletarskaya Revolyutsiya No. 11.
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Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
1977,
Moscow,
Volume 37,
pages 522-523.
Translated: The Late George H. Hanna
Transcription\Markup:
D. Moros
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Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova,
Kostomarovsky Street, 15,
Apt. 336,
Syromyatniki,
Moscow,
Russia
Expédié par Wl. Oulianoff,
Distelweg, 11,
Berne,
December 22
Dear Manyasha,
I was very glad to receive your letter of November 14 which arrived today. You addressed it to our old apartment; our present address is Distelweg, 11.
I will try to find out whether or not there is a bureau here that can give information about Russian prisoners of war, and also about that particular prisoner you are interested in.[1] Perhaps because of the coming holidays I shall not be able to find out immediately, but in any case I will try.
We are living fairly well, quietly and peacefully in sleepy Berne. The libraries here are good, and I have made quite decent arrangements as far as the use of books is concerned. It is even pleasant to read after my daily newspaper work. There is a pedagogical library here for Nadya and she is writing something on pedagogy.
I wrote asking Anyuta whether it is possible to find a publisher for an agrarian book; I could write one here. If you have an opportunity to do so, would you, too, try to find out?
Why didn’t you write anything about yourself—how are you keeping? Are you earning anything? How much, where, and is it enough? Drop me a line if you can.
Very best regards,
Yours,
V. Ulyanov
Nadya and Y.V. send best regards.
If you have an opportunity, please find out (if it is not too much trouble) whether Granat received my article on Marx. I would like to get some work for the Encyclopaedic Dictionary, but it is probably not easy to arrange unless you have an opportunity to meet the secretary of the editorial board.
[1] Lenin’s sister Maria asked him to try to get information about a prisoner of war, A. Rosenfeldt. In a letter to V. A. Karpinsky in January 1915 Lenin asked whether there was a bureau in Geneva giving information on Russian prisoners of war in Germany.
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