V. I. Lenin

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

To Comrade Litvinov (or Comrade Chicherin)

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

V. I. LENIN

(make minor corrections yourself; about major ones—we’ll talk 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 to me appraisal of the way you were received. I have heard from Comrade Krasin an exceedingly high estimate 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 a letter to Comrades Chicherin and Lezhava, asking them to give special attention and appoint the best experts for the speediest business-like and competent examination of your practical proposals, which are highly important for us and deeply interest us.

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