Poronin (Galicia), October 3, 1913.

Dear Comrade, As a member of the editorial board of *Iskra* and *Zarya*, to which you rendered such valuable services ten years ago, and as a representative of the RSDLP, which will never forget your fraternal assistance during this most crucial period for the building of the Party, I hasten to convey to you the most heartfelt congratulations on behalf of myself and on behalf of the CC of the RSDLP on the occasion of your seventieth birthday.

* This letter is a postscript to an unidentified article by V. I. Lenin. In the upper right corner of the manuscript, a signature and note on the article have been preserved: "M. (better without signature)". Ed.