Dear friend! I shall not be in Paris any longer.

The plan for publishing a national digest — nothing will come of it.

I repeat: not a kopeck for anything except Central Committee bulletins. Have them printed at Riskin's printing house (not at Stepan's), having spoken with him about the strictest conspiratorial precautions. You yourself or Inessa — but not Antonov — must be the one to collect back all manuscripts and all proofs.

Tomorrow I am sending material for the bulletin. Format = a sheet of 9. I. 1914. Four pages of that size. Type — large for an agitation leaflet (1 page); small for pages 2 and 3.

Do the work cleanly, not in Antonov's manner and without Antonov. It is absurd and shameful to conduct practical affairs through this fantasizer. For this one must create a commission of practical workers, not a fantasizer (he is a sweet and good man, but a mad fantasizer).

Send immediately all the remaining literature (Central Organ, program, statute, Kamenev's pamphlet, London protocols 283, etc., everything) to Leipzig. Herr Koiransky. Sophienstrasse:
30I right. Leipzig. (Arrange for a forwarding agent.) Inform me at once of the dispatch: when and what has been sent to the address Mr. Wladimir Oulianoff. Rue Souveraine. 18. Bruxelles (Ixelles).

Pressing your hand. Your V. Lenin

Written January 26, 1914

Sent to Paris

Published for the first time, from the manuscript