V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v54;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

To Comrade Litvinov (or Comrade Chicherin)

I ask you to look through and have my reply translated into English in exquisitely polite terms

(make minor corrections yourselves; about major ones—we will get in touch by phone). Have it typed on my letterhead and sent to me for signature.

Dear Mr. Macdonald!*

I am extremely grateful to you for your kind letter and for your highly flattering
appraisal of the way you were received. I have heard from Comrade Krasin an exceedingly high estimate of your outstanding role and outstanding abilities in industrial and commercial affairs. All the more do I value your practical proposal in this
field. I deeply regret that illness prevents me from receiving you; the doctors have even forbidden me any conversation. I shall deem it a pleasant duty to write to Comrades Chicherin and Lezhava asking them to give special attention and appoint the best experts for the speediest business-like and competent examination of your practical proposals, which are highly important to us and in which we are deeply interested.

I hope you will be so kind as to excuse the delay in my reply, caused by my illness, and I beg you to accept the assurance of the profound respect of your
humble servant.
February 2, 1922.