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To:   D. B. RYAZANOV

Comrade Ryazanov:

I very strongly support Comrade Adoratsky’s request, who has done a great deal of useful
work. [1] It is important to collect all the letters of Marx and Engels, and no one
will do this better than you.

With communist greetings, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]

V. V. Adoratsky, who, on Lenin’s assignment, was working on
a collection of selected letters of Marx and Engels, asked D. B.
Ryazanov, then in Germany, to collect all the published letters of
Marx and Engels and send them to Russia. The collection was
published in 1922 under the title Pisma. Teoria i politika v perepiske Marksa i Engelsa (Letters. Theory and Politics in the
Correspondence of Marx and Engels). Translation, introductory
article and notes by V. V. Adoratsky.