V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v13;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

V. I. LENIN — I. L. GURVICH¹

WASHINGTON.

Cracow, 27/11 1911.

Dear Colleague,

I received your book “Immigration and Labour”* a long time ago and began looking for your address to thank you. But it proved not at all easy to find your address. Only today did I get it, and I hasten to express my gratitude to you for sending the book. I have already written about it and based an article on it in our St. Petersburg Social-Democratic newspaper *Pravda*, and I shall write more.²

In my opinion, this work provides a wealth of valuable material for the study of capitalism, while at the same time being, as it were, a transfer of the best methods of our zemstvo statistics to Western soil.

The comrade who forwarded your address to me (Mr. John Ellert)³ writes that you can provide good assistance in obtaining any materials from the Statistical Bureau in Washington. Allow me therefore to ask you a favour—of course, only if it does not trouble you too much or take you away from your work.

I studied American agricultural statistics in Paris (Vol. V. Agriculture—census of 1900)—and found a very great deal of interesting material. Now, living in Cracow, I cannot obtain these publications. Kahan, editor of the socialist Jewish newspaper in New York,⁴ who was here a year ago, promised to send them but apparently forgot. I am told that with assistance, the American Statistical Bureau even sends its publications abroad free of charge. If this is true, could you provide such assistance? (I could send my books on *The Development of Capitalism* and *The Agrarian Question* to the Statistical Bureau library.)⁵ What I need especially is Agriculture—Vol. V, census of 1900, and the same for the census of 1910 (if not yet out, then the preliminary bulletins).

If this is impossible, be so kind as to drop a postcard to Mr. John Ellert (c/o *Novy Mir*, 140 East 4th Street, New York)—I will send him money to forward the most important items for me.

Thanking you once again for the book and apologising for the trouble I am causing you,

With Social-Democratic greetings,

I. Lenin (V. Ulyanov)

Address: Wl. Ulyanov,
51. Ulica Lubomirskiego, Krakau (Galizien), Austria.