[Earlier than May 12 (25), 1917]

Dear friend! Thank you for the letter. We have, at last, received the parcels. Parcels have also arrived for you. Sokolnikov promises to take everything with him in the next few days.¹ I saw him yesterday and hope that he will keep his promise. You wrote the address (on the letter to me) correctly; continue to write it in the same way in future (this is, perhaps, more convenient), adding on the envelope itself: for V. I.

I wish you all the best in terms of work, and in terms of arranging an income, and in terms of life with the children.

Here, for the time being, “everything is the same.”

Yours,  
Lenin

* On the postal card, V. I. Lenin wrote: “Inessa Fyodorovna Armand. Arbat, corner of Denezhny and Glazovsky, house 14, apt. 12. Moscow.”

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¹ G. Y. Sokolnikov (Brilliant) (1888–1939) – a prominent Soviet state and Party figure. During the world imperialist war he contributed to the Menshevik-Liquidator newspaper *Nashe Slovo*.