I am sending Renner as soon as I received it. Things are bad here: the post only comes by donkey and once a day. In case of emergency telegraph (Tschudiwiese, Flums)

* V. I. Lenin's manuscript "Imperialism, as the Highest Stage of Capitalism" was held up by French censorship. — Ed.

or telephone (tel. 2.26), but I still don't know whether it costs a great deal.

I have nothing from Pokrovsky and am extremely worried.

Do you have "Under the Old Banner"?331 I will send it after reading, if all three of you332 agree to return it within 6 days.

I am sitting down to work on articles. Have they been sent to the printer and what exactly? Arrange with the printing house that 1 copy of the proofs be sent to me immediately. Send me a list of the articles. Greetings to everyone from both of us!

Lenin

P.S. Send me interesting clippings from "Hamburger Echo" and "Arbeiter-Zeitung," otherwise I have completely impoverished myself here as far as newspapers are concerned.

In Gärtenstein (Switzerland)

Published for the first time, from the manuscript

Written July 21, 1916

Sent from Flums