EXCHANGE OF NOTES with L. B. KAMENEV

[August
1918]
I am in favor of not giving them a separate newspaper, but attempting
to infuse them (as a department) into the peasant newspaper.
Mitrofanov (from Sereda) was at a meeting with them and did not agree
to take them.
Yes, I heard, but I don't think this statement by one
Mitrofanov

2 is already decisive.
1 The correspondence apparently took place at one of the meetings of the Council of People's Commissars. It concerns the publication of an independent newspaper by the People's Commissariat of Agriculture.
2 A. Kh. Mitrofanov worked in the People's Commissariat of Agriculture from August 7, 1918.

NOTE TO G. V. CHICHERIN
23. IX. 1918
Comrade Chicherin!
I am sending you back the documents.
You did not write the purpose of sending them: if this purpose is to consult, then I have nothing
against it. I haven't seen Stalin and haven't spoken with him
2.
Yours, Lenin
1 What documents are being referred to has not been established.
2 On September 22, 1918, I. V. Stalin departed for Tsaritsyn.

RESOLUTION ON TELEGRAM FROM THE HEAD OF MILITARY
COMMUNICATIONS OF THE EASTERN FRONT KATIN

[1918, September, no earlier than 28]
Inform Trotsky
I propose to appoint an investigation and shoot those guilty
of gawkiness.
| 28/9 the enemy could have blown up the bridge!!! j
Lenin

1917 (DECEMBER) – 1918

1 The telegram concerns the enemy blowing up the bridge across the Volga
in Simbirsk. The head of military communications of the Eastern Front, Katin,
requested technical assistance from Moscow to restore the bridge. The
telegram contains a note from the secretary of the Council of People's Commissars, A. P. Kizas, of L. D. Trotsky's reply
that such an order had been given three days ago.

INSTRUCTION TO THE SECRETARY

[September 30, 1918]
Forward to Chicherin:
It is necessary to send a strict reprimand
1) to Miklevich *
for the fact that he yawned: he should have arrested them;
2) to Piter Zorin

2: how dare they issue documents without Moscow.
3) Appoint an investigation into Zorin and Co.
Lenin
1 The instruction is written on a telegram from the special border commissar
R. A. Muklevich to the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs G. V. Chicherin about the fact that diplomatic
couriers traveling through Toroshino station to Pskov are abusing
documents issued by the foreign department in Petrograd, using
them for speculative purposes to transport gold, silver, manufactured goods,
rubber and private items under the guise of embassy inventory and diplomatic
correspondence. The telegram contains a note from the secretary of Chicherin's response
that he will speak with Petrograd by telephone.
2 S. Zorin - chairman of the revolutionary tribunal.

NOTE TO B. S. WEISBROD

Dear Comrade Weisbrod!
I send my best greetings and wishes for a good rest and to "help" the Europeans well!

15/X - 1918
Yours, Lenin
1 B. S. Weisbrod - a doctor who treated V. I. Lenin.
2 What is being referred to has not been established.
* Typographical error; refers to R. A. Muklevich.