A quarter of an hour before my departure, I wrote you a letter (in the presence of Comrade Popov) at a café near the Northern Station; in this letter, I informed you that my report was already ready (20 small pages and the resolution* of the Latvian congress) and that Comrade Popov had undertaken to translate it and deliver it to you**.

On the envelope of this letter, the address of the café was printed, and if this letter has not been delivered to you, I will file a complaint with the Brussels post office.

If you have received this letter, I am extremely surprised that you do not mention it.

If Comrade Popov has not yet delivered the translation of my report to you, then I do not understand anything. I have written to him several times already, thinking he might be ill, as he has not written to me for several weeks.

Today, I am sending him another registered letter with a delivery receipt to finally clarify this strange story. I am also writing to Comrade Carlson (256 Rue Gray, Brussels), asking him to personally visit Popov.

Secondly. The expressions you used in your letter ("dodging," "policy of postponement," etc.) are offensive, and you have no right to use them in relation to a comrade. Therefore, I am forced to ask you to unconditionally withdraw these expressions. If you do not do this, then I will write to you for the last time.

Yours, N. Lenin