7.II.08.

Dear Pyotr!

So, still you contacted personally, and M-g2 appeared to be eliminated. Quod erat demonstrandum. Je vous fi1icite cordialement1*. Send the address of the Jew and tell him firmly that you are the representative of the "Proletarian "3 and not of any other newspaper, and that a man will be coming from us soon especially for this case. It is necessary that our messenger should meet with the full confidence of the Jew4 at once, if possible without all intermediaries.

In Vienna, I ask you very much to collect new Polish literature or to find out its addresses in Cracow. We need an official report on the Xth Congress of the PPS (Leftist), which recently took the most important decisions. Get this report without fail.

Hi!

Your V. Ulyanov.

P.S. We shall ask the editors of foreign socialist newspapers to exchange "Proletarian" with us. I therefore ask you to collect in Vienna the addresses of the editorial offices - in particular of Critica Sociale6 and, if there is one, of the organ of the revolutionary Social Democrats - as well as the address of Balabanova (who will probably not be able to fail to confirm my reference to her in case of need).

Not published in full - Lenin's Collection XXXVII, p. 13.

Fond 2, op. 1, d. 26185 - autograph.

1* What was required to prove. I congratulate you cordially (Latin, French).

1Part of Lenin's letter was published in facsimile in the newspaper "Excelsior" of September 10, 1922.

2It refers to the Menshevik V.E.Mandelberg. January 21 (February 3), 1908. V.I.Lenin wrote to G.A.Aleksinskii: "Well, what a friend! To give an address and connections to the Menshevik Mandelberg. This is the height of naivety. In no case let Mandelberg within a mile, and if you have already done this foolishness, take away his address and fool him" (Lenin V.I. Complete Collected Works, vol. 47, p. 132).

3See doc. 8, note 1.

4It was not possible to establish about whom it is about.

5X Congress of the PPS (Leftist Party) (Polska Partia Socjalistyczna) was held in December 1907. - January 1908.

6 "Critica Sociale. Rivista quindicinale del socialisma" was a journal published in Milan from 1891 -1926.