I request that you issue to me Hegel's book *Logic* for temporary use. I authorize the bicycle courier comrade Lachugin to receive said book.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

*The last phrase was written in the hand of V. I. Lenin, Ed.

Written 28 June 1921

First published 20 January 1940 in the newspaper *Gudok* No. 16

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