29. VII. 02.

We received your communication about the "inheritance" 188. And much of it seems "strange and incomprehensible" to us—especially the assignment to Fekla* of the task of finding a lawyer? How is Fekla supposed to do this? And why shouldn't the heir himself do it? Of course, there's no harm in trying, and one can attempt it, but all the same one must look around carefully. Otherwise one can make people laugh with fiddling about with a soap bubble. So, take all possible measures of reconnaissance and inform us how one can "place the heir at our disposal"? Send him abroad, or what? Give us his detailed characterization. Furthermore, why hasn't "your" heir approached those lawyers who had dealings with the co-heirs? (We cannot, of course, spend money on this matter.)

It would be very important to connect us properly and directly with the workers' organization of the South 189. Take care of this and write us about it in more detail**.

* Fekla—conspiratorial name for the *Iskra* editorial board. Ed.

** This paragraph is crossed out in the manuscript. Ed.

Sent from London to Koreiz

First published in 1930 in Lenin Miscellany XIII

Printed from the manuscript