V. I.

Lenin

Dear Comrade, I have received your letter and replied by telegram.

To avoid any misunderstandings, here are a few more details. What I meant was a public lecture (“Stolypin and
the Revolution”), with the admission fees to go for the
benefit of Rabochaya Gazeta (of course there is no need,
or at any rate it’s not obligatory, to say in the advertisement for whose benefit it
is). [1] The presiding committee (or the chairman) at the meeting must be from among local
Bolsheviks , and by no means “elected” (to avoid intrigues
and scandals, to which the liquidators are very prone).

I am willing to have a talk with pro-Party people (
Plekhanovites), but not with Golosists . It would be best of all
to confine the audience to Bolsheviks.

I hope to arrive on Thursday; I will send you a telegram
about the time of arrival, if I can manage it.

Please be kind enough to send this letter at once to Gorin
[M. Gorine. Rue du Pont Neuf. 2. (Chez M-me Vire) Genève],
to enable him to take steps to organise a similar lecture at
Geneva on Saturday , and to reply to me through you by
Thursday.

All the best, Lenin

As regards literature for the lecture, please get together
for me (α) a file of the C.O., (β) Two Parties , (γ) Dnevnik ,
(δ)
Arkomed. [2]