1) On the question of the “commissioned” article, you are wrong to cover up your own mistake. You could not have failed to understand that in my first letter (to which you did not reply), I noted my not-entirely-satisfaction not sharply but in an extremely cautious manner.

I did not write about disloyalty; “disorder” is also still a cautious and not sharp word, which includes simple

* A. M. Gorky. Ed.

forgetfulness and inattention, still far from disloyalty. Why, then, exaggerate and go so far as to speak of “disloyalty”?

Where is it that I wrote in my own hand about 5 pages? Send it to me if you are still not convinced that you were wrong.

2) Concerning Franz 366, we fully agreed (both I and Nadya) with you: at first it seems worse than later.

3) I am sending the draft of the letter to N. I.* I will not object to adding some politeness: send corrections and additions if you consider it necessary 367.

Greetings! Lenin

in Hertenstein (Switzerland)

Printed for the first time, from the manuscript

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Written in August 1916.

Sent from Flums