22 June 1919

Lidia Alexandrovna!
Why, contrary to my request, did this come to me without a notation that it had been transmitted to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic??
Lenin

* On the original, written by V. I. Lenin, is his instruction: "Top priority. With verification of exactly when it was delivered."
** In his telegram, Comrade Stalin, reporting on the progress of the Red Army offensive near Petrograd, asked to hasten the dispatch of ammunition to the front. The words of the telegram: "Urgently send two million cartridges to my..."