V. I.

Lenin

1914

TO THE EDITORS OF PUT PRAVDY

February 9, 1914

Dear Colleagues, I have received a letter from the secretary about the
unfortunate article which has put the newspaper in peril. [1] It’s a great pity that publicity was given (was
it a board decision?) to this unfortunate article in which
they contrived to find evidence of ties between the papers....

Having only just come home after a journey “on matters of
business”, [2] I looked through all the published issues
and have failed to find two articles which I sent (about a
month ago!) in reply to F. D. on the subject of unity “(The
Liquidators’ Leader on the Liquidators’ Terms of Unity”
is the title of the first of these articles). [3] The articles
are absolutely essential, especially in view of the new
journal
Borba , [4] and it is necessary to publish them before it comes out. Yet the articles have not been
published, and (as though making a mockery of any collective work) you haven’t written me a single line for a
whole month about their fate! ((If they are too long, which however is improbable, I would have sent them to
Prosveshcheniye .))

Really, I quite fail to understand this way of doing business! How can you treat contributors—and colleagues—in
this manner?

Please, reply!

With greetings,
V. I.

P.S. Please send me

Proletarskaya Pravda No. 11 (29)

Put Pravdy
No. 2 [5]

Novaya Rabochaya Gazeta No. 8 (126).

P.S. Do you happen to have a file of the journal
Mysl , [6] or any separate issues? Please, send them over.