Dear Comrade!

According to our agreement, the material for Volume II should be submitted by 1/X, for Volume III — by 10/X.119 The first volume has been delayed. I have submitted 12 sheets for Volume II, a further 7 are ready, and I can submit additional ones (approximately 5 or 7) very soon. But I would like to know whether you really need all this material so quickly? Will you immediately begin typesetting? Have you already sent the 12 sheets of Volume II to typesetting? Will publication be delayed if I submit the conclusion of Volume II later? If yes, I can submit the conclusion of Volume II immediately, if you wish it. But I have a plan: to write as a conclusion to Volume II a substantial work on the distribution of land in Russia (according to new statistical data from 1905) and on municipalization (taking into account Volume IV of Capital or the "Theories on Surplus Value,"* which also appeared in 1905). I think this work would be of considerable interest to the public and would be very timely. I have already gathered almost all the materials for the work and have already processed part of them. To complete it [the work] I need

* — "Theories of Surplus Value." — Editor.