V. I.

Lenin

88

To:   YELENA STASOVA, F. V. LENGNIK, AND OTHERS [1]

Dear Friends, We were overjoyed to receive your letter, which emanates so much spirit
that it has imbued us all with new energy. [2] You must carry out your plan by all means. It is an excellent
plan and will have tremendous significance. It is also urgently necessary
to write to the German. We are eagerly waiting to hear from you. Your
advice as regards a publishing business has already been half-realised. The
writers we have, and a mass of ready material. In general we are all in
excellent spirits now, there are plenty of plans, Stank too has buckled down to work, correspondence with Russia and abroad has
livened up, and now, I hope, people will soon begin to grouping. The
Minority is now flirting with the conciliators, the Central Organ is
undertaking the publication of a popular paper, the Yuzhny Rabochy
people have been given a big bite. Particulars about the publishing
business of the Majority will be passed on to you by our common
acquaintances, to whom we shall write about this in detail. Kol’s wife and child are well, they live in Yekaterinoslav. Repeat the names of people whom it is desirable to enlist in literary work. Brodyaga has arrived, the Minority is wooing him, he has not yet taken a definite
stand. Josephine is here, physically she is very poorly. The forwarding
office has been turned over to the C.C. Well, I suppose that’s all. We
embrace you warmly, dear friends, wish you health and strength.

Stank & Co. .

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Notes:
[1]
Written by Krupskaya on Lenin’s instructions.— Ed .

[2]
Lenin is referring to a letter written by F. V. Lengnik on August 22,
1904, in Taganka prison in Moscow (see Lenin Miscellany XV ,
pp. 159–62).