1) Get in touch with the author by telephone (he is in Petrograd; find out his address through Kalinin or summon him), when he is here.

2) Ask him whether he will give notes for *Pravda*.

3) If he cannot, it is necessary to give extracts from this letter, make an excerpt (about the electric plough) and hand it over to *Pravda*.

4) Find for him the requested materials (officially, request them from Osinsky, in the Chief Land Administration and other institutions).

5) By the way. See Stünkel and check (in a businesslike manner, more thoroughly) how matters stand with the electric ploughs.

Lenin

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Written on September 27, 1921

First published in 1933

in the Lenin Miscellany XXIII

Printed from the manuscript