V. I.

Lenin

183

To:   HIS SISTER ANNA

March 12, 1909

Dear Anyuta, Today I received the clean proofs of signatures 1-9 and
13—“clean” because they are on good paper and have apparently already been printed, although they have a stamp
at the top of each signature (put on by the printer) saying
“proof”, which I do not understand.

Whatever the case may be, whether they are proofs or whether they are copies of signatures already printed, I
must say that the jumbled paragraphs have been completely
corrected and that, in general , these clean proofs are
thoroughly satisfactory. I am now thinking of one thing and
one thing only and I beg you— speed up the issue of the
book. Things have now been properly organised, the proofs
are excellent, but hurry, hurry, at all costs, for there has
already been a devilishly long, an impossible delay. If,
therefore, there is anything whatsoever hindering you, you
must immediately hire an assistant proof-reader (if you
have not yet done so).

I am sending a list of misprints that have not been corrected but which were pointed out in my previous
corrections; this list is only for signatures 6-9 and for signature
13 (I will send the list relating to the first five signatures
tomorrow or the day after because I have given the proofs
to someone and must ask for them back).

These misprints absolutely must be shown in a list of errata at the end or the beginning of the book because there
are some that distort the meaning. On the whole there are so few misprints that under no circumstances must the book
be delayed on account of them.

I have not seen signatures 10, 11 and 12 (pp. 145–192)
made up into, pages; for this reason I shall send the list
of misprints for those signatures separately. I am heading
them exactly—list of misprints for such-and-such made-up
printer’s signatures. The book must be published without
waiting for my last list of misprints but with this present
list printed under the heading of errata .

[[ BOX:

The most important—p. 126, line 16 from the top

]]

All the best; kiss Mother for me.

Yours,

V. U.

P.S. Please do not tone down anything in the places against Bogdanov, Lunacharsky and Co. They must not be
toned down. You have deleted the passage about Chernov being a “more honest” opponent than they, which is a great
pity. The shade of meaning you have given it is not the
one I want. There is now no overall consistency in my accusations. The crux of the issue is that our Machists are
dishonest , mean-spirited, cowardly enemies of Marxism in
philosophy. [1]
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