V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v54
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

To Comrade Litvinov (or Comrade Chicherin)

I ask you to look over and have translated into English in exquisitely polite terms my reply

(make minor corrections yourself; about major ones, we will speak by phone). Have it typed on my letterhead and sent to me for signature.

Dear Mr. Macdonald!*

I am exceedingly grateful to you for your kind letter and for your extremely flattering appraisal of how you were received. I have heard from Comrade Krasin an exceedingly high assessment of your outstanding role and outstanding abilities in matters of industry and trade. All the more do I value for us your practical proposal in this field. I deeply regret that illness prevents me from receiving you; the doctors have forbidden me even any conversations. I shall consider it a pleasant duty to write to Comrades Chicherin and Lezhava, so that they may pay special attention and appoint the best experts for the speediest businesslike and competent examination of your practical proposals, which are highly important for us and deeply interest us.

I hope that you will be so kind as to excuse the delay in my reply, caused by my illness, and I ask you to accept assurances of the deep respect of your humble servant.
2-2-22