[No earlier than May 12 (25), 1917]

Dear friend! I have been writing you postcards through the mail, reporting about packages being sent to you through Sokolnikov. I do not know if the postcards arrived. Did you receive the packages?

Everything here is the same as you yourself saw it, and there is "no end" to the overexertion... I am beginning to "give way," sleeping three times more than others, and so forth.

How are you? Are you satisfied with Moscow? I see with great pleasure sometimes from the Moscow "Sotsial-Demokrat" how you take on various work in different districts, but of course the newspaper shows little.

I shake your hand firmly, firmly.

Your Lenin