postlagernd,* how - simply postlagernd or Bahnhofpostlagernd** or something else? V.

I. couldn't answer me, and I kept waiting for your letter, but there wasn't a word about it in it. And without knowing in whose name it was sent, I can't inquire. Please ask Vera Pavlovna to scribble me a few words about this and forgive me generously for bothering you again and again with these trifles.

As for the article about Liebknecht, we really don't know what to do. After all, you have an article for the journal that is very long: 8 pages (according to V.I., such as in "Nakanune" 61 small print, i.e. about 8 thousand letters per page) - that's 64 thousand letters - even if you take the large print of "Nakanune" - that's about 50 thousand letters! Our newspaper will be the size of "Vorwarts", also in 3 columns. A column is about 6 thousand letters - which means half of your article will take up an entire newspaper page + another column! This is extremely inconvenient for the newspaper, not to mention the inconvenience of breaking up such an article as your article about Liebknecht.

I will calculate all this more precisely when your article arrives. We will try our best to put it in the newspaper, but if it proves impossible due to size, then would you be so kind as to allow us to publish it as a brochure in the newspaper supplement? (if you are writing separately about Liebknecht for the journal). The brochure "May Days in Kharkov" (50 thousand letters) is now being typeset, then the newspaper will be typeset, and then your brochure about Liebknecht, and for the newspaper, if necessary, we can write an obituary note with a reference to the brochure. What do you think about this?

I repeat: all this is just speculation - it is necessary to calculate accurately, and, having done this upon receipt of your article, I will write to you immediately.

I shake your hand firmly and wish you the very best in getting completely better as soon as possible. Big greetings to your family.

Your Petrov

* - poste restante [general delivery]. Ed.
** - poste restante at the railway post office. Ed.

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Written on November 3, 1900

Sent from Munich to Zurich

First published in 1925 in Lenin Miscellany III

Printed from the manuscript