V. I.

Lenin

Geneva, October 27, 1905

Dear Comrade, On June 28 you sent us Comrade Bebel’s proposal concerning the differences in
our Party.

On July 24 I wrote to you [1] that I could not give you a reply on behalf of the
Central Committee of our Party, as I am only one of the members of the
Committee, and asked the Bureau to clear up a few points for me. In reply I
received a letter from Citizen Huysmans, dated August 5, in which he writes that
the Executive Committee’s intervention is directed only towards moral
suasion. I immediately informed the Central Committee of our Party of the exact
nature of Bebel’s proposal. I am now in receipt of a reply from the Central
Committee, which accepts your offer and appoints as its representatives Comrades
Vasilyev, Schmidt, [2] and Lenin. Comrade Schmidt is in Russia. We
must there fore be informed in advance of the date fixed for the conference (at
least three weeks ahead of time).

Theother two delegates are in Switzerland.

Accept,etc.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

P.S. I have just received another letter informing me that
Comrade Schmidt will soon leave for abroad (arriving probably in
November) in order to settle a number of matters pertaining to our
Party. It is therefore of the utmost importance for me to obtain as
soon as possible the reply of the other section of our Party
concerning the date for the conference. It is extremely difficult for
members of our Party working in Russia to go abroad, which makes it
desirable that the date on which the conference is to be convened
should be fixed now, in other words, that the other section and the
members of the International Bureau advise us as early as possible
when they propose to call this conference.