V. I.

Lenin

528

To:   INESSA ARMAND

Dear Friend, About the book by Delaisi, I regret to say that I haven’t got it. I
must have left it in Berne, or else somebody has “appropriated” it.

About your letter to the women, you have taken offence at my remarks,
haven’t you? And even stretched their meaning just a wee bit?

I wrote that I would advise deleting the passage which says “we wish
to take into our hands” as it would look absurd. If you do not
agree to deleting it, then I advise sending it only to closest and most reliable friends in Germany, for example , through
Radek.

Should you agree to alter the unguarded expressions (the letter, in
view of the present postal systems, arrests in Germany and France, etc.,
may get into other hands), then my advice simply falls away. That
was what my advice amounted to. That, and nothing more. Not the slightest “displeasure” at your letter, none whatever .

You asked my opinion; I gave it to you and merely suggested
only slight alterations.

All the best, Yours, Lenin

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