V. I.

Lenin

September 13, 1904

Dear Vladimir Dmitrievich, I think you should not send any application, as we
decided previously. [1]

Stick a leaflet on the pamphlet, [2] printing on it (1)
an advertisement about your publishing agency (and on the
back); (2) Boris’s statement on its prohibition (as already
set); (3) the letter from Boris dated Sept. 12 (this one), [3]
without the postscript; (4) a short additional remark, something to this effect:

“ Such is the policy of people who so magnificently carried on a war ‘of principle’ against formalism and
bureaucracy! It would, however, be interesting to learn which
clause of the Rules prohibits Party members from publishing Party literature?

“V. Bonch-Bruyevich”

Greetings to everybody. I shall be back on Thursday, the day after tomorrow.

Yours,
N. Lenin

P.S. Inform Sergei Petrovich:
(1) that on Thursday we shall evict him from his quarters and shall be spending the
night there ourselves; (2) that Pan wrote about Samsonov
four days ago. He should have been sent direct!