# Letter to an Unknown Person
# Source: Lenin Miscellany XIV, p. 178
# Date: 1915-09

Could you assist in this?
—- firstly, by going to Radek, helping him to read the manuscript
and prodding him to get down to translating (it will not be possible
to have Russian proofs until then, unfortunately).
— secondly, by taking care of the contract with a German
printing house (Radek knows the details).
— thirdly, also go to Kinkel, show him this letter and ask him to help with the translation (take on a part).
I know that Kinkel almost hates me for my appeals to him with requests for translation. But the matter is urgent, important,
help is needed quickly, perhaps he will not be too angry.
Drop me a reply on a postcard as soon as possible.
All sorts of greetings! Your Lenin

V. I. LENIN — TO AN UNKNOWN PERSON
TO LAUSANNE.
[Beginning of September 1915. Sörenberg.]
Dear Comrade! The other day I wrote to you about Golay.1 Now
the matter is moving, so to speak, from another direction. Not a preliminary
consultation, but the very conference of the left (international)
is scheduled for 5. IX. Meerheim from Paris will be there (this is all entre
nous,* of course). The "nashists" will be there. Why shouldn’t Golay and Naine,
representatives of left socialism in French Switzerland,
be there (since Grimm will be there, far more half-hearted than
Naine and Golay)?2 Try to see, please, both of them as soon as possible,
chat heart-to-heart and drop me a couple of words in reply,
as soon as possible if possible, about the mood of both
of these left Frenchmen. You understand, of course, that precisely French
anti-chauvinists would now have — and even more so in the presence
of Meerheim — an extremely important significance at the conference.
So, hurry with the answer!
Greetings to Rivlin!3
Your Lenin.
1 This letter from Lenin has not been preserved.
2 Golay did not attend the Zimmerwald Conference.
3 L. Rivlin — S.-D. Bolshevik, member of the Lausanne section.
* — between ourselves. Ed.