V. I.

Lenin

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To:   V. M. KASPAROV

Dear Comrade, Your silence surprises and depresses me extremely. We cannot work
without Vorwärts .

I have been receiving Vorwärts free of charge for the last
3--4 years, right up to February 1914. Suddenly ... it has
stopped!!

What’s the matter? I am not writing myself as I am afraid (if this is
an intrigue of the liquidators) to get a rude reply.

But maybe it is simply an oversight?

Will you please go to the forwarding office (on no account to
the editorial office) and find out what it’s all about and let me know
immediately . [1] Nadya wrote to you about this some time ago,
but there has been no reply. What is the matter? Are you ill? Please
respond!

Yours, Lenin

I am enclosing a printed address for Vorwärts .

N.B. |||

I repeat, I have been receiving it for 3–4 years for Sotsial-Demokrat, Rabochaya Gazeta, Pravda in St. Petersburg, etc.