If the Rostovites are with you in Geneva, please urge them on your side too.

The feuilleton in No. 31 has already been set, and the proofs have been sent to you. If there are important corrections, send them immediately.

How are things with the pamphlet?* Approximately what length, and by what date do you expect to finish it? This should be known, at least in general outline, in order to make arrangements for printing.

Further, what about the continuation of the article “The Proletariat and the Peasantry”? Will you finish it in one more feuilleton? Will you send it for No. 32? (If not, then we shall probably have to publish Julius’s “Questions of the Day” which he has sent: also against the S.R.s, specially apropos No. 14 of *Revolutionary Russia*, the editorial, and also calculated to run for several issues. In view of this, it would be very advisable to finish your article first.) Reply as soon as possible.

How did your paper on the 7th go off? How are things with *Zhizn*? Bonch-Bruevich sent me materials – part has been taken for No. 31. He also sent a letter about transport: here, as I thought, they have almost nothing. As for money and the printing press, we ought to try to obtain from them tangible tokens of their intangible friendship for us. By the way, did you write to L. G. (he is now in Paris) about the balloting of the Bonches for the League?

I firmly shake your hand. Yours...

P.S. I also wanted to consult you about my lectures (on the agrarian question) at the Paris Higher School. They invited me, I consented, but... the company there (Chernov, Filippov, Tugan). On the other hand, “our own people” write from Paris: you have nothing to do with the “company,” and it is very important to appear there as a counterweight. What do you think?

* See this volume, p. 238. — Ed.

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Sent from London to Geneva

First published in 1925 in Lenin anthology IV

Printed from the manuscript