V. I.

Lenin

TO F. I. DAN

March 22, 1901

Many thanks for your letter of March 2 addressed to
Rittmeyer. We are very glad that we have at last established correspondence with you (of which I wrote you as far
back as July 15!). Please observe the rules so that we should always know in any important affair that the letter
will reach us. The address you used last time is one of
the best: make use of it.

Collect cash. We have now been reduced almost to beggary,
and it is a question of life or death for us to obtain a large
sum. We shall send you Zarya in a few days. So do everything you can about
finance. [1]

How do matters stand with the doctor’s group? [2] Last summer, their representative behaved in a way that was
equivalent to a rupture (he made some idiotic demands on
us)—but later a member of his group renewed contact with
our representative in
Berlin. [3] Get some sense out of them:
are they willing to help us or not?

Send us an address for delivering a suitcase, [4] and a
more reliable one for letters and books.

Yours, Starik

What about the Finnish routes [5] ? We know nothing, and have not had a single letter from you about this. Please,
repeat.

If the bearers of a suitcase have no letter from the organisation, then you should not talk freely with them about
anything at all .