202. To HIS SISTER MARIA

First published in 1929 in the journal Proletarskaya Revolyutsiya No. 11. Sent from Paris. Printed from the original. · page 448 · Translated by The Late George H. Hanna

Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova,
Davydov’s House, Apt. 4,
Bozheninsky Street,
Devichye Polye,
Moscow,
Russia

January 12, 1910

Dear Manyasha,

I have just received your letter and hasten to scribble an answer because I am afraid I shall be busy for the next few days.^[1] I will try to get some information about the man in German Switzerland. If this is needed in a hurry let me know exactly when I must find him by, so that the organisers can begin looking for him themselves (in the event of my not finding him).

I have received the statistics. A big merci!

Give Anyuta very best regards from me. Mark, too.

I embrace Mother fondly and hope she is well.

How are you? What is the winter like? It is warm here. I have begun to pay more attention to the theatre; I have seen Bourget’s new play La barricade. Reactionary but interesting.

All the best,
Yours,
V. U.

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[1] Lenin meant that he would be attending the Plenary Meeting of the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. held January 2-23 (January 15-February 5), 1910, in Paris; it was known as the “Unity Plenum”.