AND TELEGRAM TO I. A. SUMMER

To Fotiyeva
L. A.

Please distribute the enclosed after reading it, so you will know its contents. Needed
(confidential)

copies of letters to Radchenko, Klasson, Frumkin, Preobrazhenskii*.

Send Lezhave after making a copy (confidential). If he has no objections, send the telegram at once; if he objects, tell me by telephone.

My ink, as you see, is terrible: please send me a small bottle of good ink for a fountain pen.

Please send the following telegram:

Kharkov, Summer

How are matters with Vneshtorg on Ukraine? size of your exchange fund? actually on hand? how many steamships en route to southern ports? are you sending details here in writing? to whom and when exactly did you send them? Report to me at least briefly by telegram or by telephone to my secretary Fotiyeva.

Chairman STO Lenin

Check by telephone whether Summer is in Kharkov; if not, where is he, when will he return?
(If by telephone, write down his reply exactly.)

I ask for more envelopes. And a bit of paper.

With communist greetings Lenin

Ask the librarian to get me for a time Heine, volume 2 of poems, and Goethe, Faust, both in German, preferably small format.

Please hurry with replies to all my letters, both these and previous ones
(especially Alskii's) 378.

Published for the first time from the manuscript

Written June 6, 1921

First printed incompletely in 1945 in Leninskii Sbornik

XXXV

Published in full here