V. I.

Lenin

Dear Friend, Your help was extremely valuable to us in general and
to me in particular. If I have not yet made any special
request of you, it was because there has been no extremity,
but I have been confident of the utmost possible support
on your part. At the present time, a moment of extremity
is approaching, a situation so serious that I could not even
imagine anything of the kind before. Our undertaking is
threatened with complete collapse, unless we manage to hold out for at least six months with the help of extraordinary resources . And to do that without folding up our
activities we need a minimum of two thousand rubles a month:
for editing, publishing, transport, and equipment of the
most essential agents. That is why I now address this most
urgent request to you to help us out and procure this support for us. Please let me know as soon as possible whether
you are able to fulfil this request of ours.

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