5/Х

Tov. Enukidze!

Do you want me to read the report at the caucus? Or at the plenum? Or both?

I would very much ask to be replaced by someone; maybe Radek + Chicherin. For I haven't been following. I know nothing at all. By God1.

Show Kamenev and please reply immediately.

Your Lenin.

Fond 2, op. 1, d. 23324 - autograph.

1Later Lenin changed his decision and on October 31, 1922 at 12 o'clock made a speech at the final meeting of the IV session of the VTsIK (see: Lenin V.I. Complete Collected Works, vol. 45, pp. 245-251).

This was Lenin's first public appearance after his illness.