V. I.

Lenin

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To:   V. P. NOGIN

10/X. 00

Dear Vasily Petrovich, I received your address and the resolution of the
twenty-three [2] against the “ Credo ” from P. B. (Axelrod) only
yesterday. Alexei wrote long ago that you would be abroad, but I was unable
to locate you (foolish of him not to give you my postal address!). Please
get in touch with me and let me know in detail how you are getting on: how
long you have been in London, what you are doing, what the people are like
in London, what your plans are, and when you intend to leave Why did you
choose London?

There are no passwords; instead of a password (for you do not know me,
do you? How did Alexei refer to me when you spoke with him? Did he give
you a good enough idea of what we are doing?) I shall give you the initials
of the addressee through whom I am to write to Alexei. Alexei writes me: if
you cannot make out the address, ask

Novosyolov. The initials are:
K. A. G. G. [1]

—insert

the missing letters and we shall have made “contact”.

All the best, Petrov

Reply to this address:

Herrn Philipp Rögner, Cigarrenhandlung, Neue Gasse, Nürnberg .

Enclose second envelope addressed to Petrov.

P.S. Please let me have two or three addresses of fully reliable people
(outsiders, not revolutionaries) to whom one could go in Poltava and find
out about Alexei.

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Notes:
[1]
The person referred to has not been identified.— Ed .

[2]
The “ resolution of the twenty-three ” evidently was adopted
at a meeting of Social-Democrats in exile in Orlov, Vyatka Gubernia
(V. V. Vorovsky, N. E. Bauman, A. N. Potresov, and others), as an
expression of solidarity with the “protest of the seventeen” (“A Protest
by Russian Social-Democrats”) written by Lenin (see present edition,
Vol. 4, pp. 167–82).