V. I. Lenin

Source: en:CW/CW36; ru:PSS/v47;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

Dear Maria Fyodorovna,

I am sending you a letter from our librarian to A. M.

The matter is as follows. I earnestly request A. M. to write a legal open letter to the Russian newspapers asking them to help Kuklin’s library in Geneva by sending newspapers of the revolutionary period and materials relating to its history.

The letter should be short, explaining to the general public why it is important to help this library for the work of Gorky himself and of many other writers known to him. 161

I shall ask you to arrange for this letter to be mimeographed (I hope Zinovy Al. will not refuse to help in this) and sent to all Russian newspapers and journals of any decent trend.

Please organise all this!

I shall also ask the same Zin. Al. to send by book-post the books not taken by Victor, if they are not taken by Nat. Bogd.

I firmly press your hand.

Yours,
Lenin

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