V. I.

Lenin

337

To:   INESSA ARMAND

Saturday, 11/IV. 1914

Dear Friend, I still do not know whether you received my letters in which I wrote
about the loss of the letter concerning Rakhmetov, and, what you have done
in this connection.

The package (containing, the first part of the collection The Beginning [1] ) has been received by you, but very late . If
you still have the wrapper with the postmarks on it, I would advise you to
lodge a complaint with the ministry, enclosing the wrapper. The loss of the
letter concerning Rakhmetov is simply exasperating, and I consider
complaints, protests, etc., absolutely necessary. I have a strong suspicion
that the letters of the Russian emigrants are stolen in Paris (and taken by
the police to be read before delivery to the addressees). The dates on
which letters are received should be kept track of.

I hope you have finished with Alexinsky? The only remedy in
such cases (I speak from my own long , over 15 years, experience)
is an absolute boycott by the entire section (but I suppose there
are a lot of snivellers in it, who won’t apply a boycott and so will have
themselves to blame for the “squabbles”). [2]

I am awfully glad that your children are coming to see you and that you
will soon go off to spend the summer with them.

All the very, very best, Yours,

V.U.

P.S. I apologise for today’s brief letter. I am in a great hurry.

I have not yet received the collection ( The Beginning ).

Is it the post again!??