31/X. 99.

Respected Doctor!

If your official duties permit, would you be so kind as to call in the evening on my sick comrade, Oscar Alexandrovich Engberg (who lives in the house of Ivan Sosipat Ermolaev). He has been lying down for the third day now, suffering from severe abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea, so that we are wondering whether this might be poisoning?

Accept the assurance of my sincere respect, Vladimir Ulyanov in the village of Ermakovsky in the journal

1900

Sent from the village of Shushenskoe

First published in 1929

*Proletarskaya Revolutsiya* No. 1

Printed from the manuscript