V. I.

Lenin

176

To:   A. I. LYUBIMOV

Dear Mark, Being busy with an article yesterday I overlooked by mistake in
Grigory’s draft (reply to the Capri group on behalf of the
E.C. [1]

)

the point about inviting a representative . This nonsense must
absolutely be deleted; it is students that should be invited to
Paris to study, not a representative. Some rabid otzovist, and even Lyadov
or Alexinsky, might be elected representative, in which case we would find
ourselves the dupes. No, there can be no question of inviting a
representative . [3]

I still haven’t got Plekhanov’s Dnevnik . I earnestly ask you
to arrange for the forwarding office to send it to me at once. Without it I
cannot do an article I have been asked to write. [2]

All the best,

N. Lenin

We sent you a cheque yesterday by registered mail. I trust you have
received it.

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Notes:
[1]
Executive Commission of the Bolshevik Centre.— Ed .

[2]
See “The Liquidators Exposed” (present edition, Vol. 16,
pp. 15–22).— Ed .

[3]
No mention of inviting a representative or students from the Capri
school to Paris for talks was made in the reply from the editors of
Proletary “To the Comrades Workers Who Have Arrived at the School
at X”, published in the Supplement to Proletary No. 47–48,
September 11 (24), 1909.