V. I.

Lenin

342

To:   V. A. KARPINSKY

19/V. 1914

Dear Friend, I have a favour to ask of you. Is Volume One of Rubakin’s Among Books available in your library or can you get it for me in
Switzerland?

By the way, wasn’t it you who sent me Volume
One? [2] If it was, then I did not refund your postal expenses!! And you
didn’t remind me. Drop me a line, please, and I’ll send you the money for
both volumes. (I need Volume I for only a short time.)

Do you always get Put Pravdy ?

What has happened to that young Bolshevik, the Wittmarist, that nervous
vegetarian I met at your place a year ago? [1]

Could any of your acquaintances travel to Vienna as delegates at
their own expense (we have no money, alas!)? [3] Look around, find out. We must make up a delegation.

All the very best. Regards to Comrade Olga. N. K. also sends you both
her regards.

Yours, Lenin

Wl. Uljanow.

Poronin (Galizien), Autriche.

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Notes:
[1]
A reference to A. F. Ilyin-Zhenevsky.— Ed .

[2]
Apparently this refers to Volume II of N. Rubakin’s book Among Books reviewed by Lenin in the journal Prosveshcheniye No. 4
for April 1914 (see present edition, Vol. 20, pp. 259–61). Lenin, as his
letter shows, did not have Vol. I.

[3]
This refers to a trip to attend the international socialist congress
which was to he held in Vienna in August 1914.