V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v47;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

Dear Comrade,

My friends write to me from Brussels that I am expected there shortly to take part in a meeting of the International Socialist Bureau.

You would greatly oblige me if you would let me know whether this is true or not. Can you tell me exactly (or at least approximately) when the next meeting of the Bureau is to be held?¹⁵⁰ I am obliged

* Part of the manuscript of this document has been destroyed. Words in square brackets have been restored according to the sense. Ed.

TO A. M. GORKY. MARCH 1908

to leave shortly for Italy for a few weeks, and so it is very important for me to know whether there is any need for me to go to Brussels.

Accept, dear comrade, my fraternal greetings.

Vladimir Ulyanov

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Sent from Geneva to Brussels

First published

in French in 1962

in the journal *Cahiers du Monde

Russe et Sovietique*, No. 4

First published in Russian

from a photostat of the manuscript

Translation from the French

TO A. M. GORKY

Dear A. M., It is quite a while since I last wrote to you. Our trip keeps being put off: the main obstacle at present is the absence of news from Brussels. Friends there have written to me that they expect me for the meeting of the Bureau (the International Socialist Bureau). I asked the secretary when I should go (since I have to go to Italy)*. There is still no answer. And I cannot miss Brussels.

Have you received *Proletary*? What are your intentions regarding it? And what about An. Vas.?

I was sorry to learn of his refusal to write about the Commune. Our third editor is Innokenty.

Drop me a line and let me know if you and An. Vas. have any plans for *Proletary*.

I shake your hand.

Yours,

Lenin

Written in the first half

of March 1908

Sent from Geneva

to Capri (Italy)

First published in 1924

in the *Lenin Miscellany* I

Printed from the manuscript

* See the preceding letter. Ed.