Dear friend!

I inquired today about the protocols of the French socialist congresses. They are not here.

I advise you to write with postcards, with prepaid replies, to the libraries of Geneva and Neuchâtel and to the French party [library] in Geneva.

Best greetings.

Your* W. Lenin (Switzerland)

Published for the first time from the manuscript

Written September 26, 1916

Sent from Zurich to Sörenberg