V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v13;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

V. I. LENIN — TO V. A. KARPINSKY
IN GENEVA

[Not earlier than 1910. Paris.]¹

Dear Comrade,
I have a request to you concerning one of my books on American statistics (exact title enclosed).

I need this book just now, and it turned out that it is not here. I recalled that in the summer or autumn of 1908, Alexinsky borrowed it from me (through Nikitich). Could it have remained with him? You would oblige me greatly if you could find this out and help me get the book back. I cannot write to Alexinsky myself (and I do not even know whether he is in Geneva or on Capri). It is possible that since then it has been passed on to someone else. Perhaps it would be convenient for you, through the library which everyone visits, to make inquiries—maybe hang up such an announcement in the library and send a copy of it to Alexinsky or his wife.

A firm handshake. Greetings to Comrade Olga.

Yours,
Lenin

[Text of announcement.]

Lenin is looking for his book, left with one of the Geneva comrades:

Abstract of the twelfth
Census of the United States. 1900
Washington. 1902 *
(a bound volume of American statistics).

He earnestly requests that it be delivered to Comrade Karpinsky, 1, Rue Dizereus.¹
Bibliothèque russe.

[Could it have been left by chance?]

¹ *The title is given in English in the original.—Ed.