V. I.

Lenin

To:   V. A. KARPINSKY

Dear Friends, And so we are leaving through Germany on Wednesday .

Tomorrow this will be dually decided.

We shall send you a mass of packages containing our books, papers and I lungs, requesting yon to forward them
in turn to Stockholm for transshipment to us in Petrograd.

We shall also send you money and credentials from the Central Committee authorising yon to carry on all
correspondence and manage affairs.

We are thinking of publishing a leaflet, “Farewell Letter
to the Swiss
Workers” [1] in German, in French and in Italian.

Inessa will not have time to do the French translation:
I hope you will do it and publish it (with Guilbeaux).

A comrade hero (who knows German and Italian), Julius
Mimiola , has promised me ho will do the Italian translation and publish if.

( Krummgasse. 2.)

Zürich. 4.

I have given him your address. When you have the
German pamphlet, send it to him (and a letter in German ) and
money for publication.

(( Here is another address for you of a Left-wing German
here, who published leaflet No. 1 of the Zimmerwald Left,
and may be useful again for publications: Herrn Karl Schnepf .
Thurwiesenstrasse. 8. Zürich .
I will give him your address. ))

Very best greetings and thousands of wishes.

All the best.

Yours, Lenin

P.S. We hope to collect the journey money for about 12 persons , because the comrades in Stockholm have helped us
very much .

P.S. Please take 2–3 copies, on the thinnest possible paper, of my letters No. 1 and No. 2 to Pravda “(Letters from
Afar”), to send (for the information of comrades) to Paris
and elsewhere in Switzerland.

We shall hand over correspondence with Paris to you. You
will have to find a bookbinder (a most reliable one) for
sending letters to Paris in bindings (and to learn chemical
writing).

P.P.S. Come to a detailed agreement about correspondence
with Chaux-de-Fonds, and about publishing my speech, [2]
with Abramovich (notify him that he should hurry up with
his preparations for travelling: we are going on Wednesday).