Date: 1921
Source: ru:LS/v20

LENIN’S COLLECTION We attach great importance to our future business relations with America. We are fully aware of the role your syndicate plays in this regard, as well as the immense significance of your personal efforts.
Your new proposals are exceedingly interesting, and I have instructed the Supreme Council of National Economy to brief me periodically on the progress of the negotiations. You may rest assured that we will treat every reasonable proposal with the utmost care. Our efforts are primarily focused on production and trade, and your assistance is of paramount value to us.
Should you have any complaints against any official, please submit them directly to the relevant People’s Commissariat, which will investigate the matter and report back to you as necessary. I have already ordered a special inquiry into the individual you mention in your letter.
The Congress of the Communist Party has consumed so much of my time and energy that I am now deeply fatigued and unwell. Please accept my apologies for being unable to meet with you in person at this time. I will ask Comrade Chicherin to arrange a meeting with you in the near future.
I wish you success and remain ever devoted to you, V. Ulyanov (Lenin).
P.
638«
NOTE A .
I .
RYKOV .
March 18 [1921]
I earnestly request that you pay close attention to this matter and immediately commission an expert review here,
and inform me whether it might be possible to include in the negotiations with Vanderlip
2.
,

G. Lenin.
P.I.
10534
NOTE TO THE SECRETARY .
[May 1921]
What has been done regarding Vanderlip?
1. Negotiations with the American V. Vanderlip (a prominent banker) concerning concessions in Kamchatka for the United States had been underway since November 1920.
On December 21, 1920, in his speech to the Fifth All-Russian Congress of Soviets, Lenin addressed these negotiations at length, mentioning the rebuttal published in the newspapers by G. Harding—then a candidate for President of the United States—who, in order not to compromise himself through dealings with Soviet Russia, disavowed both Vanderlip and the negotiations with Soviet Russia. For details, see Lenin’s Collected Works, Volume XXVI, p. 9.
2. The note was made on the “Report on the Locations of Certain Ores in the Kuban Region.”
* Recipient unknown.
NOTE TO THE SECRETARY
1–23
MARCH

G.
I.
S382
March 18 [1921]
To Frumkin:
1. Inform me that I am requesting him to deliver to me the documents concerning the riches—mineral resources and otherwise—of the Black Sea coast and of Teberda in the Kuban region.
2.
If Frumkin is not available here, please send them to me from Rostov-on-Don.
Lenin.
P.
S406
[March 23, 1921]
Request Rykov and Lomov*.
By the time of the Eighth Congress of Soviets, Ivanov—a member of the Caucasus Labor Army—had brought to Moscow, accompanied by a covering letter from Beloborodov, materials on the riches and concessions of the South-Eastern region (the Sal’sk Steppe, mountainous mineral resources, and other such assets), addressed to the Central Committee of the Trade Union of Workers in Agriculture.
(50–60 pages typed)
(in particular, the sugar-beet and sugar industry, integrated with sheep farming and cattle breeding in the Sal’sk Steppe).
Ascertain the situation from Rykov and Lomov and procure them for me**.
1. Frumkin, M. I.—member of the Board of the State Trading Commission and authorized representative of the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade in the South-Eastern region.
2. The “Report on the Locations of Certain Ores in the Kuban Region” was delivered to V. I. Lenin on March 18 in two copies. On the first copy, Lenin wrote a resolution (see the document printed above, p. 190, No. 6386); on the second, he added the notation: “March 18—sent to Lezhava, Rykov, and Lomov.”
* Beloborodov, A.—Chairman of the South-Eastern Economic Council.
* The first line was written by the secretary. Ed.
** The final postscript was added later by Lenin in pencil. Ed.*

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