V. I.

Lenin

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To:   G. V. PLEKHANOV

10/I. 03

Dear G. V., Please pass on the enclosed letter to Lyubov Isakovna; she gave me your
address. The letter is very urgent and important, and if she is not there, send it on at once , but read
it first yourself. The point is that there has been a delay with materials
about the Rostov strike, and we must hurry with the pamphlet. If the people
from Rostov are in Geneva, please help to hurry them up .

The feuilleton for No. 31 has been set up in type and the proofs sent
to you. If you have important corrections, send them in
immediately .

How is the pamphlet coming along? [1]

How long will it be approximately and when do you expect to finish it? We
should have at least a rough idea so as to know what to do about the
printing.

And what about the continuation of the article “The Proletariat and
the Peasantry”? Will you finish it with one more feuilleton? Can you send
it in for No. 32? (If not, we shall probably have to print “The Problems
of the Day” sent by Julius, also against the Socialist-Revolutionaries,
specifically concerning the editorial in Revolutsionnaya Rossiya
No. 14, and likewise scheduled for several issues. Because of this it would
be very much in place to finish your article first.) Reply as soon as you can .

How was your lecture on the seventh? How are things with
Zhizn ? Bonch-Bruyevich sent me the materials—some of them were
chosen for No. 31. He also wrote about transport: in this respect, just as
I thought, they have practically no thing . As regards the money and the printing shop , we ought to try to get from them some concrete
tokens of their abstract goodwill towards us. Incidentally, did you write
L. G—ch (he is in Paris now) about the vote for the Benches in the
League?

Best regards, Yours....

P.S. I should like to have your advice about my lectures (on the
agrarian question) in the higher school in Paris. They have invited me and
I have given my consent, but ... the crowd there (Chernov, Filippov,
Tugan). On the other hand, “ours” write me from Paris: the “crowd” is
not your concern, and that as a counterweight it is extremely important to speak there
too. What do you think?

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Notes:
[1]
See present edition, Vol. 34, p. 123.— Ed .