Comrade Nikolayev! I received your letter of 7/VII.

I am very pleased that you have now begun correctly.

I advise (1) to demand more officially and insistently that all the secrets be opened to you at once.

* The word "Sovtrudoborony" is written in V. I. Lenin's hand. Ed.

(2) To make the installation, if possible, on special wooden stands, so that it could be instantly removed from the wagon (it would perhaps be better to take a platform rather than a wagon) and transferred to a truck, to the ground, etc. (since the inventor made a successful experiment, according to his account, not in a wagon).

(3) If you find that "the game is worth the candle," do not spare money or people to accelerate the work.

Greetings! Lenin

1920

Published for the first time from the manuscript

Written in July, no earlier than the 7th