V. I.

Lenin

September 29, 1904

Dear Comrade, I was very pleasantly surprised by reports from Sergei
Petrovich and Martyn Nikolayevich about your political stand at the present time. I need not tell you how painful
it has been for me, over the last twelve months, to see a
break in the good relations which had previously always
existed between us. In view of these reports, I think it
would not be worth our while to look back to the past:
we could probably resume our old relations exclusively on the basis of our common positive tasks of the present
and the future. If I am mistaken in this, you will, of course,
correct my error; but I feel it to be my duty, after my
talk with Martyn Nikolayevich, to make a first attempt to clarify frankly and directly how we stand.

Respectfully yours,
N. Lenin

My address is:
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Notes:
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No address is given in the MS.— Ed .