Dear Comrade!

While deeply sympathizing with the aim of your undertaking, I must earnestly beg your pardon: over the course of the coming months I am quite unable, owing to urgent work, to take any part in it.

With s.-d. greetings, N. Lenin

To Lausanne (Switzerland)

Sent from Geneva

First published in 1930 in Lenin Miscellany XIII

Printed from the manuscript