RESPONSES TO NOTES OF SECRETARIES
February 1919

## 10304

Vladimir Ilyich, would you not find it possible to decree such a provision that decrees be sent for publication directly to "Izvestia," not through Rosta, which only delays their publication...

Comrade Sereda is ill and cannot attend the meeting.

It was not he who spoke.

It is necessary to find out who? A woman's voice spoke.

Who is writing this? First of all, check whether there is an order (of the Council of People's Commissars or the Central Executive Committee) to send through Rosta.

## 10250

Did you speak with him personally?

And who?

November 4, 1919

Is the meeting of the Defense Council emergency, on one particular question or drawing up a general agenda?

What question?

Vladimir Ilyich, will there be a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars this evening?

## 12802

Yes, but also general questions.

Fuel.

## 10197

No. Cancelled. Notify everyone.

## 10192

July 9-11, 1919

N.B. Two hours' warning to Gorky (Thursday)*.

* On July 8, 1919, V. I. Lenin telegraphed M. Gorky in Petrograd: "I very much ask you to come tomorrow, or no later than Thursday. It is necessary to talk urgently" (Lenin Collection XXIV, p. 315).