V. I.

Lenin

Why don’t you reply to No. 16 of Rabochaya Mysl , published in Geneva, apparently by Nadezhdin? Are you really
going to let this pass too without a protest? What a scandal
that leaflet No. 1 of Rabochaya Mysl was burned [1] : of
course, there were some things in it that needed correcting,
and drastically at that. But then why wasn’t it done? It’s
quite incomprehensible what is going on at your end! Why
has the printed leaflet on the 200th anniversary of the press
been delayed [2] ? Send us immediately every leaflet, your
own and other people’s, workers’ and students’, all without
exception, with a note saying whether they may be quoted
and whether they were distributed—two copies of each to
two addresses, either simply in envelopes or wrapped up
inside a legal newspaper sent by book-post, only with a
strong wrapper crosswise.

Why don’t you send to Iskra the St. Petersburg
Committee reports of the money you collect? Be sure to do
this. There is great need of workers’ letters from St.
Petersburg; please do your best to get some, especially about
unemployment, and then about the impression created by our literature.

Correct leaflet No. 1 of Rabochaya Mysl , rewriting it in a more restrained and more business-like tone, and be
sure to publish the story of the split within the Committee.
Nadezhdin’s Rabochaya Mysl cannot , I emphasise, cannot
be let off without a public protest.