1905 — MAY Sh7 YEAR

An K a r l haben wir geschrieben. Besten Dank fiir Ihre Mitteilung iiber seine Gesundheit.
Beste Griisse an Sie und Ihre Frau von uns beiden.
Lenin
P. S. Schreiben Sie doch ein Paar Worte!

[March 13, 1917]
Dear Radek! I was already wanting to write to you, when your postcard came with the promise to write in detail "tomorrow." But "tomorrow" passed, and again "tomorrow," and yet again — but no news at all!!
I very much ask you to send me back the Swedish letter
1 — I have already asked you about it twice. Could you have lost it?
And about Jul. Borchardt?
2 Any news? And you still don't have Karl
Erdmann's book?

Have you seen No. 10 of the OK organ ("Izvestiya of the OK")? Martynov
writes that you have not refuted Grimm's lie — ergo *!!!!

But the entire content of this Martynov article is so idiotic — this fool helps us excellently.
We wrote to
Karl
5. Many thanks for your message about his health.
Best greetings to you and your wife from both of us.
Lenin
P. S. Do write a few words!

1 The letter in question has not been established.
2 Julian Borchardt is a German Social Democrat. During the world
imperialist war, heading the left Social Democratic group that formed around the journal "International Socialists
of Germany," he waged a struggle against social chauvinism and the imperialist
war; he participated in the Zimmerwald Conference, adhering to the Zimmerwald Left. Towards the end of the war, Borchardt and his group shifted to syndicalist positions. After the war, Borchardt withdrew from active political
activity.
3 The book by K. Erdmann "England und die Sozialdemokratie" ("England and Social Democracy"), published in Berlin in 1917, is meant.
4 This refers to the Menshevik newspaper "Izvestiya of the Foreign Secretariat
of the Organizational
Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party," published in Geneva from February 1915 to March
1917. 10 issues were published.
* — therefore.

Issue No. 10 of the newspaper contained an article by A. Martynov "The Question of the Defence
of the Fatherland in the Swiss Social Democratic Party."
The article stated that during the war, the Social Democratic
faction of the Swiss Parliament as a whole abandoned its previous decisions
to oppose the war and voted for military credits. No one in Swiss Social Democracy protested against
such behavior by the faction. "Moreover, even the ultra-radical Comrade Radek, who moved his activities to Switzerland in 1914,
as Comrade Grimm recently wrote in 'Neues Leben' (and Radek has not refuted this), in the first months of the war approved
this step by the faction in view of the special Swiss conditions."
A. Martynov (A. S. Liker) — during the world imperialist
war, he held a centrist position.
5 Who is being referred to has not been established.

INVENTORY OF PERSONAL BELONGINGS

Lenin (6. IV. 1917)
|| 1) Basket with household items (valuable). (Key to it) *.
Ill 2) Basket with valuable books.
3) Box (cardboard) with newspaper clippings.
4) Same: a small box made of wooden planks.
5) Box with archive.
6) Basket with non-valuable newspapers, etc.
7) Swedish
kerosene stove.
1 The inventory was made in connection with preparations for departure to Russia.

LETTER TO I. F. ARMAND **
20/IV—1917
Dear friend! I have just received two packages for you — from those
that were taken out of your basket. Poorly packaged, only
in newspaper.

* On a postal card to which a key is attached, V. I. Lenin
wrote: "Einschreiben. Пегги Radomyslski (bei Marti). 27. NeufeldstraPe.
27. II. Bern. See reverse side," and on the reverse side of the card: "Absender: W l . Ulianow. Spiegelgasse. 14. Zurich. I. Key to Lenin's basket (with household
items)."
** On the envelope of this letter, V. I. Lenin wrote: "Inessa Fedorovna
Armand. Arbat, corner of Denezhny and Glazovsky lanes, building 14, apartment 12. Moscow."