We request that you inform us immediately of receipt of this letter and of your reply.

P. S. To avoid gossip and premature misinterpretations, we have informed the Council
of our resignation in the following form: (full copy).
“To the Chairman of the Party Council

Dear Comrade! We inform you that, in view of the departure of one of us and the leave
taken by the other, we are unfortunately compelled temporarily to resign our posts as
members of the Council from the Central Committee. This has been communicated by us to the Central Committee.

With Social-Democratic greetings, Kurz
Lenin”

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Written March 13, 1904

Sent from Geneva to Russia

First published in 1929

in Lenin Miscellany X

Printed from the manuscript