20.5.05.

Dear Sir!

I gratefully acknowledge receipt of 25 pounds sterling, of which 5 pounds shall, according to

* — Campaign for an imperial constitution. Ed.
** — Marx’s Literary Legacy. Ed.

the conditions you set, be used for relief. All your donations are mentioned in our newspaper *Vperyod*, which we have sent you. I am now again sending you those issues of this newspaper in which the donations are mentioned, and I mark these places with a blue pencil.

We have already written to the St. Petersburg Committee of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party that it is necessary to make a report at several workers’ meetings about the donations received from the “Committee of Workers’ Representation.”* Since all communication with the organisations of our Party is secret, it will take some time before an answer is received. This week several Russian comrades are leaving for St. Petersburg, and I have repeated my request to them. They promised to take all measures to ensure that this report is made as soon as possible in St. Petersburg, and to inform you. Your letter of 22. IV. 05 will also be forwarded to the St. Petersburg Committee.

I hope, dear Sir, that you will soon receive a letter from our comrades in Petersburg with an account of the report made at a workers’ meeting in the Russian capital.

I beg you to excuse my poor English.

With heartfelt gratitude, sincerely yours,
Vl. Ulyanov (editor of *Vperyod*)
Vl. Oulianoff,
3. Rue de la Colline. 3.

Geneve. Switzerland.

Published in 1946 in the journal
Translated from the English
* See present volume, p. 21. Ed.
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Sent to London
First published on August 18,
“British Ally” No. 33
Printed from the manuscript