V. I.

Lenin

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To:   LYUBOV AXELROD

17/XII. 01

Dear L. I., Received three letters from you and am replying to them all. I
definitely cannot come [2] : the whole paper now rests on me and the administrative end has
been complicated by transport hitches and mix-ups in Russia, and my
pamphlet is pressing on me. [1]

I am devilishly late! And I am altogether unprepared; I even asked Berg to
write the item for Iskra No. 13, for I have read nothing on the
history of our revolutionary movement for a very long time. I think you are
mistaken in assuming that you will not do because of public sentiment. The
Plekhanov anniversary is so specific a celebration that it most
likely will be attended only by people of very definite trend and
sentiment.

Address for letters to Tsvetov (Blumenfeld):

Herrn Dittrich Buchbinder.
Schwanthalerstraße 44.
München.

I give you this address because if you write through me your letters to
him may be delayed for two whole days. He lives at the other end
of town and we see each other rarely.

The “strange” letter with the inquiry concerning Mrs. D. should have
been sent not to Blumenfeld but to the address enclosed in the same letter.

Best regards, Yours, Frey

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Notes:
[1]
A reference to What Is To Be Done? (see present edition,
Vol. 5, pp. 347–529).— Ed .

[2]
Lenin had been invited to speak in Berne on the occasion of
25th anniversary of G. V. Plekhanov’s speech on Kazan Square in
St. Petersburg on December 6, 1876.