V. I. Lenin

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

July 16, 1903

Dear V. D., G. V. has told me that you can get from one of your acquaintances
the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedic Dictionary. If that is so, I would very much ask
you to get me the volumes containing the articles:
Peasants, Serfdom, Peasant Farming, Corvée, Quit-rent.

I very much need to consult these volumes for an article I am writing in a hurry.*

Please drop me a line whether it is possible to get them.

Yours, Lenin

I have just received Engels’ pamphlet 239 and am sending it to you. Ask V. M. to translate
the whole of the Vorbemerkung** and return the pamphlet to me as soon as possible.

When could she return it?

I have just received your report. 240 Thanks!

* At this time Lenin was working on the article “A Reply to the Criticism of Our Draft Programme” (see
Collected Works, Fifth Edition, Vol. 7, pp. 217-32).—Ed.
**—preliminary remarks.—Ed.