V. I.

Lenin

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To:   MAXIM GORKY

9/ VIII.1921

Alexei Maximovich:

I have sent your letter on to L. B.
Kamenev. [1]

I am so tired that I am unable to do a thing.

Just think, you have been spitting blood, but refuse to
go!! This is truly most shameless and unreasonable on your
part.

In a good sanatorium in Europe, you will receive treatment, and also do three times as much useful work .

Really and truly.

Over here you have neither treatment, nor work—nothing but hustle .
Plain empty hustle .

Go away and recover. I beg you not to be stubborn.

Yours, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
A probable reference to Maxim Gorky’s letter connected with
the proposal from ARA (American Relief Administration) to
conclude an agreement with Soviet Russia. Lenin sent this letter to
L. B. Kamenev on July 31, 1921.