April 12, 1917

Dear friend! I hope that this letter will nevertheless reach you, as will the newspapers I am sending you. I say “nevertheless,” because the difficulties of communication with abroad are incredibly great. We were let through, met here with a furious campaign of persecution, but to this day we have received neither books, nor manuscripts, nor letters. Evidently military censorship works splendidly — even too zealously, for you know, of course, that we have not had and could not have had even a shadow of anything about the war.

Please suspend the copying of the agrarian manuscript, for I have found here one copy already set up in type. The end of the “conclusion” 484 is missing, namely from the words:

“All the peasantry and all the proletariat are against private ownership of land.

The reformist path of creating a Junker-bourgeois Russia necessarily presupposes the preservation of the foundations of the old landownership and a slow....”

From these words to the end of the conclusion is missing.

You would oblige me very much if you make 4–5 copies from these words to the end of the conclusion and send them: 1) to me personally; 2) to *Pravda*, Moika, 32; 3) to Stockholm to the address given you. Perhaps I will receive at least one of these copies.

Drop me a postcard, to *Pravda*, or better to M. T. Yelizarov (for V. I.), Shirokaya, 48/9, flat 24, Petrograd, a postcard saying whether you received this letter and when you sent the copies of the end of the conclusion.

We had a wonderful journey. Miliukov did not let Platten in.

The atmosphere here is a furious campaign of persecution by the bourgeoisie against us. Among the workers