7/IX. 1922.
Comrade Krestinsky!

Be so kind as to send, please, the enclosed letter to comrade Bukharin**—by the most reliable method; I think you yourself will choose the appropriate way.

Thank you in advance, my regards to your wife, and I shake your hand.

Lenin

P. S. I am already almost completely recovered.

P. S. Would you be so kind as to send me the original of Gorky's letter published in the issue of 20. VII. 1922 of *Sotsialisticheskiy Vestnik*.

Published for the first time, from the manuscript