(i.e., more useful for the cause and safer for you: this is very important; you must take care of yourself!!) to wait it out in London or in Norway, etc. Transport — even if only gradually — must be set up as a matter of utmost importance. With the Plekhanovists, who will be with you in 2–3 weeks' time, you ought to meet and agree on all of this.

I shake your hand firmly and wish you courage and all the best.

Your Lenin

Written February 11, 1915

Sent from Bern to Stockholm

First published in 1924 in Lenin Miscellany II

Printed from the manuscript