To Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova. Shiroky Street, no. 48, apt. 24.

Petrograd. Russia. Petrograde
Ouliannoff. Spiegelgasse. 14II. Zurich. I. (Switzerland)
22/X. 1916.

Dear Manyasha! I received two postcards from you simultaneously yesterday, from 29/8 and 1/IX.

I am very grateful for the trouble you took with the publishers and for sending the money. Has the new publisher received the manuscript on the newest capitalism?342 Please let me know when it arrives. I attach especially great importance to this economic work and would particularly like to see it in print in its complete form as soon as possible. You write that the publisher would like to bring out "The Agrarian Question" as a book rather than as a pamphlet. I understand this to mean that I should send a continuation (that is, in addition to what I have written on America, write what I promised on Germany)343. I shall buckle down to this work as soon as I finish what I must write to pay off the advance from the old publisher*.

* This refers to V. D. Bonch-Bruevich. Editor.

So then, I consider that the new publisher has commissioned from me a continuation on the agrarian question! Remind him of this when the occasion arises. (I have not yet received the 500 rubles, but of course shall receive it in a few days: in my opinion this is not an advance but payment for manuscripts the publisher has received.)

Can you find out (when the occasion arises, not specifically), whether Granat placed my article on Marx in the Dictionary?* I do not have the reprint that was promised. If he does not reply, can you not check in the library by taking the dictionary for that letter?

Regarding translations, I sent you three proposals (three books: Kemmerer; Gilbreth; Hobson). If they are not suitable, let me know, and I shall look for others. If they are suitable, we must agree more precisely that the commission is given and the proposal accepted. Then I shall get down to work. Perhaps Anya will take on the translation of one item? Give Anya my and Nadia's very warm regards.

I sent you 3 postcards to M. T.'s address**, now I am sending this one to yours. Is one as convenient as the other? We are living with Nadia as before, quietly; the libraries in Zurich are better and it is more comfortable to work. I embrace you warmly for myself and for Nadia and send greetings to M. T. I am very grateful for sending the books; I also received the women's journal.

Your V. U.

in the journal

First published in 1929 "Proletarian Revolution" no. 11

Printed from the manuscript