Dear friend!

There are no letters from you, and I interpret it in a good way: it is true that the boys have come or are coming, and you are feeling well. From the bottom of my heart I wish you a better summer with them!

I received a parcel of Bund literature: great merci. How much to send for it? (or make a transfer from the cashier's office of the Committee for Foreign Organizations,1 but if this is in any way inconvenient or troublesome, I will send it at once).

Nadia insisted on trying the bicycle the other day: as a result, after 5 minutes of riding, all the symptoms of bazadka recurred, and immobility of the eyes, and growth of the tumor, and terrible weakness, etc. Probably a second operation will be inevitable, but in the meantime we will try the mountains in Poronin.

I hope you will be careful at the post office to forward your letters to you when you leave.

I'm sending No. 3 of "Rabotnitsa "2. It's good, isn't it? Things are getting better. Mes felicitations a Ludmila et toi1*. (I hope you are not angry at the joke about the pseudonym?)

A firm, firm handshake.

Yours V.W.

Will you settle down (and how) with receiving "Pravda"? If not, I can send unconfiscated numbers. Notify.

Published - "Rossiyskaya Gazeta", No. 10, January 18, 1994.

Fund 2, op. 1, d. 3238 - autograph.

1* My congratulations to Ludmila and you (French)

1The Committee of the Foreign Organization of the RSDLP was the organizational center of Bolshevik emigrants abroad. It had an emigrant treasury to which local groups contributed a certain percentage of their income.

2In No. 3 of "Rabotnitsa," published on April 1 (14), 1914, the articles "A Wave of Disease Among Women Workers" and "They Got Angry" about the brutal exploitation of women were printed. Therefore, the issue of the magazine was arrested by the Press Committee. V.I.Lenin considered it necessary to print a new circulation. A.I.Elizarova informed Lenin on April 15 (28) that "'Rabotnitsa' could not be reprinted, for the police had dismantled the set" (Correspondence of the Ulyanov family. 1883-1917. M., 1969, p. 322).

See also doc. 55, note 10.