V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v46; en:CW/CW43;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

1/III. 03.

We have no copies of the other pamphlets (among those you asked for); we couldn’t find them.

Return the manuscript of the “young revolutionary,” after showing it (or even without showing it) to Plekhanov.

Could you write a note, article, or feuilleton for Iskra on the 25th anniversary of Nekrasov’s death? It would be good to publish something. Write and let us know whether you will undertake it.

As for Bonch, my wish has been largely satisfied by the letter he sent here, along with 19 manuscripts from Zhizn. It was precisely such a formal step, and by no means a “renunciation” (and renunciation of what??), that I advised to secure, without considering it a conditio sine qua non.*
(But Posse’s intriguing ought to have been brought into the open, and it was against Posse, not against Bonch, that I advised urging Bonch to take a direct step, thereby provoking Posse as well.)
I press your hand...

I have no faith in the Zhizn transports. We are, of course, badly in need of money, and if we could get a lump sum, we would be prepared to make many concessions (not to speak of advances) for that purpose. But precisely “for that purpose” and “for it”...