V. I.

Lenin

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To:   A. G. SHLYAPNIKOV

Dear Friend, I received your letter with the news of your departure (on Sunday,
today is Friday) for Copenhagen.

Write (1) whence your news and the rumours that you have
conveyed? From what sources? Who brought them?

(2) Do you now have your own sources? At least one address in
St. Petersburg? Or not? Is code and invisible ink being used with anybody
or with nobody at all just now?

If there are no contacts, can you establish them?

If not, let’s think how and through whom we can do it.
Further, did you get in touch with Litvinov in London?

Belenin’s speech at the Swedish congress came off wonderfully . [1] As for making a speech in Copenhagen (at the
January 1915 conference), [2] let us start discussing this by letter straightaway.

Yours, Lenin

Uljanow. Distelweg. 11. Berne (Suisse).