NOTE TO I. I. IONOV
To Comrade Ionov. Published by the Petrograd Soviet
(From Lshsha)
April 13, 1919
Comrade Ionov! I have received 20,000. I am enclosing a receipt.
I request that the attached 15,000 be deposited into the treasury of the Petrograd Soviet Publishing House on behalf of P. Petrov³.
With comrade’s regards, N. Lenin.
1 I. I. Ionov was in charge of the publishing house of the Petrograd Soviet.
2 Here, Lenin refers to the fee he received from the Petrograd Soviet Publishing House for the separate pamphlet publication of his speech “The Achievements and Difficulties of Soviet Power.” This speech had been delivered by Lenin at a rally in Petrograd on March 13, 1919. {Works, vol. XXIV, pp. 55–78}
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NOTE TO THE SECRETARY OF L
[April or May 1919]
I have some materials at home—please have someone go there.
1 M. I. Glässer informed Lenin in a note: “Vladimir Ilyich, Comrade Stalin is requesting the Party program; he says it had been lying on our table.”