V. I.

Lenin

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To:   CAMILLE HUYSMANS

8.IX. 08

Dear Comrade Huysmans, Thank you for your letter of August 31st. I was away for three days and
that is why I did not reply earlier. [10] (...) [1] as for the report we have [now] arranged that matter.
(...) [2]

... [ that the Central Committee of our Party was able to hold (after
several months] “rest” in prisons) a plenary meeting. The member of the
Committee who started to write the report was also arrested; he was only
released two weeks ago. Now he is here too. We have decided that it is
[impos]sible to continue the preparation of the report in Russia and [we have] entrusted this [task] to a comrade [in Geneva]
(...) [3]

... that the report will be finished in two months. I deeply regret, dear
comrade, that we caused you a good deal of trouble and inconvenience but
you cannot imagine what a large number of militants we have lost and to
what extent (...) [4]

... the crisis of (...) [5]

... the Courrier International (...) [6]

... I do not know any internationalist of the old guard in
Geneva. You have probably written to London and to the committees of the
Swiss socialist (...) [7] about this matter: if the socialist newspapers in London, Geneva, Zurich,
etc. ... will print an announcement that the International Socialist =
Bureau (...) [8]

... of this Courrier (...) [9]

My address: Vl. Oulianoff, 61, rue des Maraîchers, Genève.

Vl. Oulianoff