V. I.

Lenin

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To:   INESSA ARMAND [1]

Dear Friend, I am writing to you on my way back from a lecture. Yesterday (Saturday)
I lectured on the amnesty. [2] We are all dreaming of leaving. If you are going home drop
in to see us first. We’ll have a talk. I would very much like you to find
out for me in England discreetly whether I would be granted passage.

All the best, Yours,

V. U.

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Notes:
[1]
This letter (postcard) to Inessa Armand in Clarens was written by Lenin
on his way to Zurich from La Chaux-de-Fonds and posted by him in Ambulant
(Switzerland). In La Chaux-de-Fonds—a large working-class centre of
Switzerland—Lenin delivered a lecture (in German) at a workers’ club on
the Paris Commune and the prospects of development of the Russian
revolution (“Will the Russian Revolution Follow the Path of the Paris
Commune?”).

[2]
Lenin is referring to the declaration of the Provisional Government
setting fort its political programme, one point of which provided for a
complete and immediate amnesty in political and religious cases (see
Vestnik Vremennogo Pravitelstva No. 1, March 5, 1917).