V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v46; en:CW/CW36;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

July 9, 1901

Dear P. V., I am sending you Nevzorov’s article, which we have rejected. Have a look at this “specimen” (I hear you were interested in him) and, after reading it, please send it on at once to G. V., who is also interested in the Parisians. We think it necessary to keep a copy as a document.

We are making up No. 6 of *Iskra*—it will probably run to six pages, as there is a fair amount of material on the social chronicle and the working-class movement. For the second issue of *Zarya* we have sent: 1) G. V.’s leading article, “What Next?” and 2) an article by L. I.—“Why Do We Not Want to Go Back?” by the Orthodox. Then there are articles by Arsenyev and Velika Dmitrievna, and a paper by Alexei (how did you like it? Velika Dm. was dissatisfied). I have written a short article on Witte’s Memorandum and the preface to it, and, of course, gave it to Mr. R. N. S.*—Velika Dmitrievna is very

* See present volume, p. 121. *Ed.*

dissatisfied, and the article will have to be sent to G. V., etc.: this Mr. R. N. S. is a sore point!

How are your work and your health? How long is your vacation this year and where do you intend to spend it? I should very much like you to look in here and have a chat about all sorts of things—only I am afraid to invite you lest you give yourself a fresh nerve-racking instead of a rest. If that does not frighten you, do come, really.

We have been informed from Russia that talk about a congress has increased. This again and again makes us think about the programme. Publication of a draft programme is extremely necessary and would be of tremendous importance.¹²¹ But apart from you and G. V. there is no one to undertake this: it requires calm concentration and thought. Please come to our aid, if your work and health permit. Perhaps you could meet G. V. and spend some time together with him—could you not take advantage of that?

Kautsky passed through here (he has gone to the Tyrol for a rest), but we forgot to talk to him about the *Erfurter Programm* (now being looked through by Alexei). Did he promise a special preface?

What books did you tell Alexei’s sister had been sent?

As regards the foreign survey for *Zarya*, we are not sure of it: Parvus wants to write all the time about organisation, Luxemburg and Danevich will (perhaps) write about France, and that is all—nothing about Germany, nor about Austria... *Schwach!*

Well, good-bye! Excuse my writing so seldom; I have no time left in the bustle here. The Londoners** are here now; I like them. And you?

I shake your hand firmly and send greetings to all your family. Yours...

Leiteisen’s address: 52, Faubourg du Temple. Mr. Gouman. Paris; on the inner envelope: pour Mr. Basile.

As regards the reprint of No. 1 of *Iskra*, we shall have to wait a little: the question of the one thousand copies of it that have, it appears, survived, and of the attempt now being made to transport them, will soon be cleared up.

** V. P. Nogin and S. V. Andropov. *Ed.*

The note on Adler will still be in time for No. 6 of *Iskra*¹²² if it arrives not later than a week from now.

I am not writing about the draft agreement with the Union: there is nothing new, and you, of course, know the old from Alexei’s sister.