V. I.

Lenin

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To:   HIS SISTER ANNA

Anna Ilyinichna Yelizarova, Goncharnaya Street, 11, Apt. 23, St. Petersburg, Russia

Dear Anyuta, At last I am home after a long absence; I found and read
all your letters, and today another one came, the one you
thought might not arrive. We have them all. You were right about the delay with the articles, but there is nothing
I can do. I have only two hands. Prosveshcheniye No. 1 has
not arrived, although I have received a newspaper with a
notice that it has been published. You are also delaying
things. I am going to write about the self-determination of
nations—perhaps it will be in time for
No. 2. [2]

Please send me Proletarskaya Pravda No. 11 (2 copies), Put Pravdy No. 2, Novaya Rabochaya Gazeta No. 8
(126) [3] — do not ask anybody else to send them (that is hopeless)
but send them yourself.

With regard to the summaries of crime statistics for
1905–1908, I would ask you not to buy them (there is no
need, they are expensive) but to get them from a library
(either the Bar Council or the Duma Library) and send them for a month. (Many thanks for the journal of the
Ministry of Justice—I hope you got it back.) I heard that
you people crossed out of the article on the
X affair [1] something against the liquidators and I was very angry at
this inappropriate and harmful conciliation; you are only
helping the foul slander of the liquidators, delaying the
inevitable process of chucking such scoundrels as Galina,
Martov, Dan and others out of the working-class movement. You
won’t succeed in anything but disgracing yourselves. I am
really mad at the disgusting blackmail engineered by
Martov & Co. in the X affair; we shall gradually crush that gang
of blackmailers.

I have not written home for a long time. I hope everything
is all right there. Drop me a line or two.

I have just received Prosveshcheniye No. 1.
Congratulations. In general it is good. Except for the misprints.... And
the review of Levitsky’s book with the foolish word “factionally” in
it.... [4] Who let that go through? Who is the author? N.K. will write about the women’s
magazine. [5]

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Notes:
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