27. I. 03.

I received the note about Bonch and will pass it on to L. G. tomorrow. Evidently, besides Bonch's "person" (whom auntie attests to as quite unprepossessing from a personal standpoint), we have gotten absolutely nothing out of the "liquidation" and have not "profited" by anything. Everything is in the hands of Mr. Kuklin, to judge by no. 6 of *Zhizn'*.

Julius is expected in Bern: such is our latest information.

All the best. Lenin (Switzerland)

Sent from London to Montreux

First published in 1930 in Lenin Miscellany XIII

Printed from the manuscript