# AMERICAN AMBASSADOR

1. I. 1918 Petrograd

Sir, being unable to reach you by telephone at 2 o'clock as had been agreed, I am writing to inform you that I would be pleased to meet with you in my office — the Smolny Institute, Room 81 — today at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.29

Respectfully, Lenin

Written January 1 (14), 1918

First printed in English in the original language (facsimile) in 1956 in the book:

G. F. Kennan. "Russia Leaves the War", Princeton

First printed in Russian in 1957 in the journal "Questions of History" No. 8

Printed from a photocopy of the manuscript