Dear comrade! To my great horror, the translation is not here!!! 220 What is this?? Without fail and absolutely send it by express mail no later than this evening (Monday), so that I absolutely have it tomorrow early in the morning.

If it is not finished, send it in any case without fail!
(If it is finished or part of it is done, add in your letter whether you vouch for the quality
of the translation: can it be handed directly to the printer?)

Salut! Your Lenin

P. S. My wife asks that you return the literature at once and is very angry about the carelessness,
threatens that she will never send anything again.

P. P. S. Yesterday I sent you a letter about the youth*. I hope you received it?

Written 31 January 1916

Sent from Bern to Zurich

First published in 1929 in Lenin Miscellany XI

Printed from the manuscript