Letter to Maria llyinichna Ulyanova, End of August-September, 1917

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Dear, sweet Mimosa,[1]

I ask you very much to go away for treatment, do not postpone it. You must not miss the chance. When you return it will be easy to arrange a job for you. You absolutely must go.

The Beer plan is an excellent one. Try also to get Schlüter on Chartism (in German);[2] it appeared after Beer and corrected that opportunist. A very good booklet could be written about Beer and Schlüter. Drop me a line in reply.

“Party Congresses” is also a good subject (in addition to the minutes, various booklets[3] are needed, I do not even approximately remember which ones). If you do write, send me the draft and we can discuss it.

I embrace you very fondly.

V. Ul.

  1. Mimosa was one of the Party nicknames used by Lenin’s sister Maria Ulyanova.—Ed.
  2. Lenin recommended these books to his sister Maria because she intended writing a book on the British working-class movement.
  3. Lenin’s “Report” on the Stockholm Congress is in my possession quite by chance, and nothing else.... Too little!—Lenin