V. I.

Lenin

2

To:   P. B. AXELROD

We have received the Breslau report. [2]
We unstuck it with great difficulty, in the course of which a large part
was torn (the letter, thanks to the good paper, remained intact). Evidently
you have not yet received the second letter. You must use very thin
paste—not more than a teaspoonful of starch (and it must be potato
starch, not wheat starch, which is too strong) to a glass of
water. Ordinary (good) paste is needed only for the top sheet and coloured
paper, and the paper holds well, under the action of a press, even with the
thinnest paste. At any rate, the method is suitable and it should be used.

I am sending you the end of Thornton. We have material on the strike 1) at
Thornton’s, 2) at Laferm’s, 3) on the Ivanovo-Voznesensk strike, 4) on the
Yaroslavl strike (a worker’s letter, very interesting), and on the
St. Petersburg Boot Manufacturing Factory. I am not sending it, as we have
had no time yet to copy it and because I do not count on being in time for
the first issue of the Miscellany. We have established contacts with the
Narodnaya Volya printing-press, [3] which has already put out three things (not ours) and has taken one of
ours. [1]

We are planning to publish a newspaper, [4] in which this material will be printed. This will be definitely settled in
about 1 \frac1/2 to 2 months’ time. If you think the material will arrive in
time for the first issue, let us know at once.

Yours, Ilyin

Have you any difficulty in handling our parcels? We must jointly improve the method.