Published:
First published in 1930 in Lenin Miscellany XV.
Sent from Geneva to Paris.
Printed from a copy written by P. N. Lepeshinsky.
Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
1971,
Moscow,
Volume 36,
page 138.
Translated: Andrew Rothstein
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
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• README
September 29, 1904
Dear Comrade,
I was very pleasantly surprised by reports from Sergei Petrovich and Martyn Nikolayevich about your political stand at the present time. I need not tell you how painful it has been for me, over the last twelve months, to see a break in the good relations which had previously always existed between us. In view of these reports, I think it would not be worth our while to look back to the past: we could probably resume our old relations exclusively on the basis of our common positive tasks of the present and the future. If I am mistaken in this, you will, of course, correct my error; but I feel it to be my duty, after my talk with Martyn Nikolayevich, to make a first attempt to clarify frankly and directly how we stand.
Respectfully yours,
N. Lenin
[1] No address is given in the MS.—Ed.
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