7. II. 8.

Dear A. M.! Regarding your statement, I shall consult with A. A.: in my view, it is not worth publishing, since you personally did not know*.

Which Bekovsky collection did you send your article on cynicism to? I am puzzled, for I am being assiduously written to about Bekovsky collections, and I have heard nothing of this one. I hope it is the Petersburg one 135.

The letter to Senkevich, if you have a copy, please send (with a note of when it was sent), — but Senkevich will certainly publish it, since it is a questionnaire 136.

Your plans are very interesting, and I would gladly come. But you will agree, I cannot simply abandon party work, which must be set in order immediately. It is difficult to set a new undertaking in order. I cannot abandon it. Let us set it in order in a month or two or something like that, and then I shall freely tear myself away for a week or two.

* The reference is to A. M. Gorky's statement in print in connection with the arrest of N. A. Semashko (see the present volume, pp. 129-131). Ed.