INSCRIPTION ON THE ENVELOPE OF A LETTER FROM V. A. KARPINSKY
[October 19, 1909. Paris,]
Please read and return it to me //2
And I propose that correspondence] from St. Petersburg be forwarded to the Central]
0[rgan] V
1 V. Karpinsky’s letter of October 18, 1909, constitutes a response to Lenin’s letter concerning the transfer of the Bolshevik library and Karpinsky’s move from Geneva to Paris (see Lenin’s letter to Karpinsky in “Lenin’s Collection,” Volume XIII, p. 173).

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The inscription on the envelope here appears to have been addressed to the editor-in-chief of “Proletariy.”
2 This opening phrase refers to V. Karpinsky’s letter (see Note 1).
3 The reference is apparently to A. Ch.’s article “Our Electoral Campaign (Letter from St. Petersburg),” which was published in the subsequent issue (No. 59) of “Social-Democrat” on November 13 (October 31, 1909).
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LETTER TO M. K. KOBEZKOV IN COPENHAGEN.
[Between August 8 and 26, 1910. Copenhagen.]
Mr. Kobezky,
Dear Comrade, I am writing to you both here and at Kronborg-g[asse]. I am coming to see you with my family—my wife and mother-in-law. If possible, please look for a cheap room—or two—for weekly or monthly rent.
If you receive any packages, please keep them safe without opening them.
Yours, Lenin.
1 The date is established by comparing this letter with Lenin’s letters to the same addressee in August 1910 (see “Lenin’s Collection,” Volume XIII, pp. 181 and 183).
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CERTIFICATE FOR I. P. POKROVSKY
[August 26, 1910. Copenhagen.]
I hereby certify that Comrade Pokrovsky has been designated by the Social-Democratic Parliamentary Group of the Third Duma as a delegate to the Socialist International Bureau.
N. Lenin.
[Translation.]
I hereby certify that Comrade Pokrovsky has been elected by the Social-Democratic Parliamentary Group of the Third Duma as a delegate to the International Socialist Bureau.
II. Lenin.
* To Mr. Kobezky. Ed.
** Printed from a draft written in pencil on the reverse side of a printed sheet from “Syndikalisten” dated August 1910, which contained an appeal—in four languages: English, French, German, and Danish—to the delegates of the International Socialist Congress. Ed.

1 U. P. Pokrovsky, a member of the Social-Democratic Fraction of the State Duma, served as a member of the Russian Social-Democratic delegation to the Copenhagen Congress, holding an advisory vote. The meeting of the International Socialist Bureau took place on the afternoon of August 26. Lenin attended the session, having arrived in Copenhagen, apparently on the morning of August 26, as he had anticipated (see Lenin’s letter to M. K. Kobezky between August 8 and 26, 1910, in “Lenin’s Collection,” Volume XIII, p. 183). But most likely, it was on that very day that this certificate to Pokrovsky was drafted.
EXCERPT FROM A CONVERSATION WITH V. K. NURNATOVSKY * K
[Autumn 1910. Paris.]
I was so captivated by the account of these events that I could not fully grasp the author’s perspective. It seemed as though the author were a Menshevik—struggling (often through rhetoric) to break free from Menshevism **2.
Was the author Braïlovski?
And when did he write? Was he already in St. Petersburg?
Yes, the facts are so compelling that it’s a pity they are not entirely complete.
And was he always involved?
Nadia asks that you lend her a book for [a week!] if possible, within a few days.
And how is your health? You look much better!
In Chita itself, during October and November 1905, were there no factions or divergent opinions? Perhaps ***.
1 The nature of the document suggests that these are responses and questions exchanged in a conversation with a sick man who suffered from such severe deafness that he often had to resort to written communication. Most likely, Lenin’s interlocutor in this conversation was V. K. Kurnatovski, who had arrived in Paris in the autumn of 1910, quite ill—with an ear infection—after emigrating from Australia. At that time, Lenin visited him in a Parisian hospital (see N. K. Krupskaya’s “Reminiscences of Lenin,” Parts 1 and 2, Partizdat, Moscow, 1932, p. 178).
The present document contains a record of a conversation between Lenin and Kurnatovski during one of Lenin’s visits to him. This is further confirmed by certain passages in the text: the conversation revolves around the revolutionary events in Chita in 1905, in which Kurnatovski played a leading role.
* The note was written in pencil on a small scrap of paper. Ed.
** Further down, in the blank space between the lines, the manuscript bears a faintly erased, barely legible pencil mark that resembles “IX–X. 10.” It is possible that this marks an approximate date for the actual conversation with V. K. Kurnatovski. Ed.
*** The text of the record ends abruptly here. Ed.

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2 The reference is apparently to an article or pamphlet written about the events in Chita in 1905 by one of the participants—and previously passed on by Kurnatovski to Lenin, who then shares his impressions after reviewing it.