[October 19, 1921]

Comrade Martens!
If Hammer's plan to give 1 million poods to the Urals is serious
(and from your letter, I get the impression that your written
confirmation of Reinstein's words makes the plan seem serious,
not just idle talk), then you must try to give the whole thing the precise
legal form of a contract or concession.
Let it be a fictitious, but a concession (asbestos or other valuables
of the Urals or whatever you wish). It is important for us to show and publish
(later, after implementation begins) that the Americans agreed to
concessions. Politically important. Reply.
With communist greetings, Lenin