...evidence that the English bourgeoisie finds trade agreements with the Soviet republics more advantageous than the unprofitable and even ruinous attempts to suppress them. It is necessary
to collect such literature for ourselves and, in addition, to discuss with knowledgeable people whether
it would be advisable to additionally hire a kind of literary bureau or agency for publishing
similar pamphlets, delivering reports, distributing them, etc. You, of course, know with whom
this should first of all be discussed.
2. Through special people, it is necessary to organise the systematic collection, purchase, sparing no
expense, and dispatch to us in 5 copies of books, articles, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, especially in
the English language, but also in others, on questions of the latest economics. As a model may serve Keynes's book "The Economic Consequences of the Peace." It is
precisely publications of this kind that must be collected systematically.
3. The same, but only through special people, to do for the collection and dispatch to us in 20
copies of periodicals of all kinds, especially pamphlets and proceedings in the
following four directions: 1 - communist, 2 - centrist (as, for example, the Independent Labour Party in England), 3 - anarchist or close to it, 4 - syndicalist, etc.
4. All this must be organised properly by notarial contract, necessarily through a person who must be an English citizen and not a communist.
5. For me personally, I ask you to send: 1 - good latest reference books and summary statistical publications, geographical, political and economic, especially in
English and French, which are easier to obtain in London, and 2 - two good thermoses.

Lenin

Dictated by telephone

17 July 1920
Published for the first time, from a typewritten copy