So then, let Smith not regard Yegor in the old way. There is an end to friendship here. Down with all softness! Prepare the most decisive resistance, send Zarin at once, appoint candidates (in the event of Smith's death*), for that same contingency prepare for him, Smith, a walk "to Yegor"**, appoint members to the Soviet 243, make everything more formal and operate with full force. We will manage the literary side. We are firmly counting on Vadim.

1903

Written between September 10 and 14

Sent from Geneva to Kiev

First published in 1927 in Lenin Miscellany VI

Printed from the manuscript