To Grigory.

We usually forward all letters to Grigory immediately after reading, but some things in your letters are not always clear to us. In the list I have marked everything that has been received by us, and asked Gr[igory] to mark what else he has. When the list returns from them, I will send it to you. Please send, by Ognev, the booklet about the bureau, etc. Well, all the very best!

1) Above the letter, in the hand of Nadezhda Konstantinovna, was written: "For Alexander" (Shlyapnikov).

2) This refers to the conference in Kienthal (2nd Zimmerwald Conference).

3) See note 10 to letter 12.

4) From France, besides Brizon, there were Blanc and Raffin-Dugens.

5) At the head of the "International" group were R. Luxemburg, K. Liebknecht and Mehring; it published a journal of the same name, only one issue appeared. Available in a Russian translation, State Publishing House, 1923.

6) "Volksfreund" — "Friend of the People" — the organ of the Braunschweig organization of the German Social-Democratic Party, which held an internationalist position.

7) It was about an agreement with Yu. L. Pyatakov and E. Bosch for the continuation of the publication of the journal "Kommunist", whose publishers were the named comrades. No agreement followed. "The Japanese" was the conspiratorial name for Comrades Pyatakov and Bosch (these comrades arrived abroad from Siberian exile via Japan). See note 5 to No. 33.

8) "Kommunist". Since the agreement on the terms proposed by Vladimir Ilyich did not take place, the planned 3rd issue of "Kommunist" did not appear. Instead of the discontinued "Kommunist", the "Sbornik Sotsial-Demokrata" [Collection of the Social-Democrat] began to appear.

9) I.e., continuation of Comrade Radek's article "A Quarter Century of Imperialist Development", the beginning of which was printed in "Kommunist" No. 1–2.

10) A Jewish collection was planned to be published on the basis of materials brought out of Russia by Comrade Shlyapnikov, depicting the situation of Jews during the war. The collection did not materialize. The materials were later sold by Comrade Shlyapnikov in America to a Jewish organization for $500.

11) "Ognev" — a conventional sign to write in chemical or other conspiratorial manner.