9/XII.

Lydia Alexandrovna!

I ask you, after reading the enclosed (so that you can verify that it has been carried out), to send it on to Comrade Semashko*.

Then it is necessary to check and expedite the dispatch for treatment:

Smilga — to Germany.

Rudzutak — to a sanatorium.

I ask you to telephone me about what you have done on these points and what the results are.

Lenin

* See the following document. Editor's note.

Written 9 December 1921

First published in 1933 in Lenin's Miscellany XXIII

Printed from the manuscript