To the Editorial Office of “Pravda”  
[Between July 2 and July 9, 1912  
Kraków,]  

Dear Comrade,  
I have received your package containing sets of  
Pravda and Nevaia Zvezda**. I earnestly request that you supplement it with the issues of the old Zvezda that are still missing from my collection (you should have a list of these missing numbers). Should you not possess such a list, please let me know—and I will promptly send it to you.  

I have also received your detailed letter regarding our collaboration. We will do our utmost to carry out as much of the exceedingly extensive program as we can. It is only necessary to reiterate once more that it is absolutely impossible to continue our work without the timely dispatch of:  
(1) Funds. The office is already in debt for 200 rubles—of which 100 rubles were due on June 1st, Old Style, and another 100 rubles were due on June 15th. It is imperative that we settle this debt without delay and ensure that payments are made punctually, as agreed, on the specified dates.  

(2) — it is essential to send new books, reference publications, and the like. Without the timely delivery of new volumes, not even one-tenth of your proposed program of collaboration can be realized. In my previous letter…  

* At the top of the first page of the letter, two postmark impressions are visible in the manuscript: 1) “Editorial Office of the Newspaper ‘Pravda’” and 2) “June 26, 1912,” marking the date when Lenin’s letter was received by the Pravda editorial office—that is, July 9 (June 26), 1912. Ed.  

** Your letter bears the postmark “June 18.” Yet we have not yet received any copies of Nevaia Zvezda dated after June 4! Please see to it that these issues are sent with the utmost care and promptness.  

LETTERS FROM THE ERA OF “ZVEZDA” AND “PRAVDA”  
I have already sent you a list of books and would appreciate it if you could confirm whether all of them will be dispatched.  

Furthermore, in your letter you ask that I inform you “which newspapers we still need to send.” You received the list in my previous correspondence; all that remains is to reiterate my request that you notify me via telegraph: “Newspapers subscribed”—for without this confirmation, there will inevitably be interruptions in the delivery of articles.  

We are sending a copy of Sinclair’s novel to Leipzig for reference purposes. After all, it is a translation from English—so why not translate directly from the German edition?  

At your service, V. Ulyanov.  

P.S. In particular, when it comes to the agrarian question, current official government publications on rural affairs are especially indispensable. Please be sure to print in the next issue that the newspaper earnestly requests the submission of all such publications, pledging to publish a comprehensive list of these works along with reviews of their most important titles.  

VI. UljanoWw Zwierzyniec. L. 218. Oesterreich. Krakau.  

P.P.S. I cannot help but note the highly unpleasant typographical errors that have crept into several of the articles. Just now I received—though not from the newspaper’s office, nor indeed from St. Petersburg—No. 13 of Nevaia Zvezda. In the article “The Non-Liberal Skeptic,” the word “to employ” has been printed as “to profess” instead!  

And yet the author’s handwriting is by no means difficult to decipher. Moreover, both the typesetter and the proofreader should be thoroughly familiar with this particular style of writing. Finally, given the context, the proofreader ought to have easily spotted the error.  

It would be desirable to take steps to minimize such typographical blunders.  

Issue No. 43 of Pravda has now been received in five copies, as promised. However, I am still missing Nos. 4/1 and 42. I kindly request that you send those issues as well, each in five copies.  

P.S. It is also vitally important to obtain the newspaper Nevskii Golos (we currently lack No. 4 and subsequent issues) as well as all professional trade publications. Without these, the section you so desire—dedicated to the struggle between labor and capital—cannot be properly established.  

1 The date is established based on Lenin’s report of receiving Pravda No. 43 on July 2 (June 19), 1912, and on the date his letter was received at the Pravda editorial office (see the footnote on p. 324).  

* Lenin’s article “Capitalism and Parliament,” signed “The Non-Liberal Skeptic,” appeared in Nevaia Zvezda, No. 13, June 30 (June 17), 1912 (Works, Vol. 15, pp. 555–556).