Date: 1908
Source: ru:PSS/v48


Source: CW vol 48

To Vasilyev

14/XII.

Dear friend, today we learned that the board of the cooperative 144 will be dissolved in a week. This means there is very little time left. We urgently request that you take all measures: 1) To manage to transfer "Day" to the name of No. 5 or, at the very least, to ensure with complete and real guarantees that the cash box will be in his hands. The financial crisis is extremely acute. Now all the subscription money is at stake. To leave it in unreliable hands would be a crime! 2) Articles and statements by six cooperators for "Day" must be prepared immediately (or use those already prepared by us and sent long ago) and printed without delay. If we do not start an intensified agitation for subscriptions, collections, and support, the cause is lost. 3) Pass a resolution in Mishin's collegium against No. 16*, to counter the resolutions of the liquidators. 4) Finally secure the planned meeting of all (without exception) - now this is three times more important. We are bringing Spitz as well. 5) Get rid of Vasilyev as soon as possible, for otherwise, it cannot be saved, and he has already done the most important thing.

Please reply to this letter as quickly as possible, especially regarding "Pravda"**.

You wrote that "it smells of criminality" 147. We will completely ruin ourselves if we do not fully transfer the affairs (i.e., transfer the publishing house and the cash box) to the name of No. 5.

Sincerely, Yours***

P.S. The arrival is only possible if it is done immediately, with everyone getting their passports right away, and having everything on hand, so that it is not just promises but action. If postponed, then

* No. 16 - E. I. Yagello. Ed.

** In the manuscript, this word is crossed out and "Luch" is written (for conspiratorial reasons). Ed.

*** The signature is illegible. Ed.