...do not tell anyone about this matter and do not forget that the foreign public is weak in conspiracy.

Outline the congress agenda only in general terms. Send us a request asking us to communicate our (editorial) agenda and who we have as reporters and how many delegates there may be from us (from the editorial board). Hasten the congress with all your might.

Try to obtain mandates for those who have fled: this will save expenses.

Be sure to report precisely and exactly every single official step of the Organisational Committee. And one more thing: *Rabocheye Delo* is dying, and it would be very important for you (from the OC) to send it not an abusive, but a serious admonition about the importance of unification, the benefit of humility, etc.

So, hurry up! If need be, we will manage to get a small amount of money.

Written on 11 November 1902

Sent from London to St Petersburg

First published incompletely in 1920 in the journal *Krasnaya Letopis* No. 2

First published in full in 1928 in *Lenin Miscellany VIII*

Printed from the manuscript