Nadezhada Krupskaya: To Lenin’s Mother (22)

Written 8 June, 1914. Letter sent from Krakow · First published 1931, First published in Lenin’s Letters to Relatives. · pages 621–622 · Translated by George H. Hanna and Robert Daglish.

Her Excellency Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova,
Samarin’s House, Apt. 3,
Moskovskaya Street, Vologda,
Russia

June 8

Dear Maria Alexandrovna,

Many kisses for you and Manyasha. I received Manya’s postcard and short letter and replied to them the same day.

How are you keeping?

It is pouring with rain from morning to night here, for a whole week I have been unable to step outside except In raincoat and galoshes.

Mother is poorly all the time, her heart troubles her. This year she has frequently suffered from [palpitation],[A corner of the postcard has been torn off and the words in brackets have been filled in by the editor according to the sense—Editor] and because of her ill [ness and] the rain she is in a bad [mood].

[We are] travelling. I have made a [discovery]-Based ow’s disease gets a lot [better] from excursions into the mountains, butin such weather I cannot, of course, go anywhere. By the way, the disease has not made itself very much felt this year. That is all. Again I embrace you.

Nadya