V. I.

Lenin

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To:   V. M. KASPAROV

Dear Friend, Will you please take it upon yourself to keep us in formed during the revolutionary days in Russia . [1]

We have no newspapers.

Will you please

1) send us daily (by ordinary book-post) Berlin news papers
giving the fullest news from Russia ( Vorwärts , better
still, say, Berliner Tageblatt [2] ; choose which has most reports from Russia);

2) ditto Russian newspapers from St. Petersburg and Moscow (we
have only Kievskaya Mysl )— Rech , Novoye Vremya ( since the beginning of the July days )...

3) telegrams concerning special , exceptionally important
events, if any, such as revolts among the troops, etc.

My address for everything (including telegrams)— Ulianow
(only two words). Poronin .

We shall pay expenses. Write a postcard immediately whether you
undertake to do this (I hope you won’t refuse) and how much money we should
send.

( The rates for mail and telegrams here are the same as those
inside Germany.)

Awaiting your reply, Yours, Lenin

P.S. Please send us also cuttings from Vorwärts about everything relating to the Brussels conference of 16–18.VII.1914
and the “bloc” there (Rosa+Plekhanov+Alexinsky+liquidators, etc.).