LETTER TO A. I. LYUBIMOV.
[Early September 1909. Bonbon, Department of Seine-et-Loire.]
Dear Mark! Being occupied yesterday with an article, I made a mistake
by overlooking, in Grigory’s draft (the “response to the Caprians on behalf of I. K.*”), the invitation addressed to the authorized representative¹. This nonsense must be scrapped without fail:
we ought to invite students to Paris to study—not to appoint a fully empowered delegate. One might well select as delegate either a staunch adherent of the “rejectionist” line or even Lyadov or Al[eksin]sky—and then we would find ourselves utterly duped. No, there can be no question of summoning an authorized representative.
I still do not have Plekhanov’s diary. I earnestly request that you arrange for its immediate dispatch. Without it, I am unable to write the commissioned article².
With warm regards, N. Lenin.
Yesterday, I sent you a check by registered mail. I hope you received it?
1 For details regarding Zinoviev’s draft (“the response to the Caprians on behalf of IK”), see note 1 on page 37.
2 The article “Exposed Liquidators” was published in Nos. 45–47–48 of Pravda from 18 (5) September 1909 (Works, Vol. XIV, p. 130).