V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v49;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

Dear friend!

I am astonished that we have had no news from you for many days. I hope it is because you
will come soon. Another commission—if the dacha commissions have become very tiresome to you (I have pangs of conscience, for you have already taken a lot of trouble over them), then drop it, I will order them from here—but if you happen to pass by Kaiser’s, ask for samples of large envelopes (of the size of the enclosed sheet of paper, or folded double lengthwise, or even widthwise) for sending thick manuscripts. Buy several dozen such envelopes: 30. In this shop there are samples of all kinds of envelopes (I need strong ones, and cheap ones among the strong) with prices per 10, 50, 100 pieces.

We have rains again. I hope the celestial office will pour out all the excess water by the time you arrive, and then the weather will be fine.

Have you been picking out some good French fiction in the library (Stadtbibliothek)? I read

* - Au revoir. Ed.

** - Dear friend! I am surprised that there has been no news from you for many days. I hope it is because you will come soon. Ed.

*** - city library. Ed.

here “Les Châtiments”* by Hugo, and was pleased. I am indignant that the Neuchâtel library has not replied at all!!

Au revoir**.

Yours, Lenin

One more commission: in case you and I undertake some long walks (this is not certain, but it may be possible occasionally), it would be good to know the conditions in the Hütten (Cabanes)—mountain huts with beds—organised by the Swiss Alpine Club. Drop in at the office of this club in Berne (I don’t know the address: they will tell you at the Verkehrsbureau—bureau de renseignements***), take the prospectuses and find out all the details. I often study Baedeker and “look into” such Cabanes at an altitude of 2,500-3,000 m. not far from us.

Why don’t you write what the dentist tells you? When will you come?

If you happen to be at the Stadtbibliothek, search the catalogues more thoroughly. Regarding the classics (poets and prose writers) of French literature.

P. S. The inquiry at the “Swiss Alpine Club” has the purpose:
1. To find out the prices in the “huts” for non-members of the club.
2. To find out whether there are any collective ascents to great heights (3,000-3,500 m.), how, when, etc.