6/XII.

Comrade Molotov!

I am leaving today.

Despite my reduction of the work load and increase in rest periods over the last few days, insomnia has grown devilishly worse. I fear I shall be unable to report either at the party conference or at the Congress of Soviets.123

* On the envelope V. I. Lenin wrote: "To P. P. Gorbunov with a request to send to Berlin for Alexei Maximovich Gorky (from Lenin) {return envelope with Gorky's receipt}." On the back of the envelope there is a receipt from A. M. Gorky: "Received 24. XII. M. Gorky." — Ed.

Forward this to members of the Politburo for their information in any case.

Lenin

Written 6 December 1921

First published in 1945 in Lenin Collection XXXV

Printed from the manuscript