V. I.

Lenin

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To:   THE SECRETARY, EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE GRANAT BROS. ENCYCLOPAEDIC DICTIONARY (July 28, 1914)

Dear Colleague

Some days ago, despairing of any opportunity to finish the work, I sent you a letter giving it up, with my
apologies. [1]

But now the political circumstances on which I am so extremely dependent are suddenly changing again in
radical fashion. First of all, the exceptional security measures
in St. Petersburg, about which I read today in the Russian
papers, are to remain in force until September 4, 1914,
evidently meaning that the paper for which I was writing is
slopped until then. Secondly, the war will, it seems, interrupt a number of urgent political affairs with which I was
burdened. Therefore I could now set about continuing the
article on Marx which I have begun, and could probably finish it soon. If you have not yet placed the order with
someone else, and commissioned another author, please reply by cable to me (at my expense): Uljanow. Poronin.
Rabotaite. [2]

If you have already commissioned someone else, please reply by postcard.

With assurances of my deep respect,
V. Ilyin

Absender: Wl. Uljanow, Poronin (Galizien), Austria.

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Notes:
[1]
See the previous letter.— Ed .

[2]
Work.— Ed .