LETTER TO L. A. FOTIEVA
There were no stenographers at the III Congress. The secretarial records
of the regular session were kept by two delegates, with this duty
being performed in turn. The secretaries formalized the minutes of their
session and then regularly read them at the plenum and approved them. The note: "Tuesday. 61/2 hours" indicates the
approval of the minutes at the penultimate - 2.5th session
of the congress on Tuesday, May 9 (April 26). Minutes of the 24th, 25th and 26th
sessions were approved at the last session on May 10. Lenin's notes
more accurately record the work of the congress than the published
Protocols of the III Congress (cf. Protocols ed. 1924, pp. 49i and 500).

STATE OF THE MINUTES.

[May 9, 1905] Tuesday 6!/o pm. [London.
16 (Bour) (ready) is; ready
17 Volgin, Vlasov (3 hours)
ready
18 Varenka, Lyubich (72 hours)
ready
21 Panov and Schur.
>* 2 hours)
ready
22 Sommer (in 1 hour finished
23 (a) Vladimirov (ready)
(b) Varenka, Antonov (around 2 hours)
)
ready ready
24 and 25 Vladimirov (ready)
26th last session Vladimirov
V. FIRST ORGANIZATIONAL STEPS AFTER THE III
CONGRESS AND POLEMIC IN CONNECTION WITH THE CONGRESS
JULY - SEPTEMBER
G. ZHYNEVA.
Û. n.
* LETTER TO L. A. FOTIEVA WITH A PROPOSAL TO ORGANIZE
A REPORT ON THE RESOLUTIONS OF THE III CONGRESS.

June 1 or 2, 1905. Geneva.
Dearest kitten!
I just sent you a telegram. Just in case, I'll explain what's up. I was called to Paris "on business. I absolutely
don't want to lose the trip just because of that, but give
a report. Topic: "The Third Congress and its Resolutions". Content: pa-i
rallel analysis of our and Menshevik decisions:2 they have just published a notice about their conference and I will be
analyzing it. [I would like to] I can read [specifically] only on Tuesday
(I will arrive on Monday, but my evening will be occupied) and absolutely
must finish in one day. If possible, rent the largest hall
(where I read against Struve - Filatov et al. know)3 and notify the maximum of the public. If you haven't
telegraphed me clearly your answer yet, then telegraph me tomorrow, so that I
know exactly: have you rented the hall? May be you can even
write me cxpress’oM (so that I receive it no later than Sunday
morning), but if there is anything important to report, be sure
to telegraph.
Today I'm reading the same thing here.
Tonez s’il vous plait!* I shake your hand. Your Lenin
If, against all expectations, it turned out that it was impossible to read the report, then I would be, perhaps, not come at all. Therefore, be sure
to answer.

1 The letter was written immediately after the publication of the Menshevik brochure "The First All-Russian Conference of Party Workers," published as a separate supplement to issue 100 of Iskra
dated May 28 (16), 1905. "Most likely, judging by the calculation of days for receiving a response from L. Fotieva, Lenin wrote to her on Thursday, June 1, or on
Friday, June 2.
2 The report on the III Congress took place both in Geneva (June 1 or 2), as
and in Paris (see below the document "The III Congress and its Resolutions").
3 Lenin gave a report on the topic "Social Democracy and Liberalism"
in Paris in early December 1904. P. Struve gave a large speech there against Lenin. Materials and a plan of this report
are printed in Len. coll. V, p. 67.
The document printed below presents materials v the plan of Lenin's report on the topic "The III Congress and its Resolutions".
read by Lenin in June 4905 and in Paris. This report is mentioned in Lenin's letter to L. Fotieva (see above p. 105).

Answer please! Peô.