Comrade Veysbroд!

You have ended up in Vienna...* I hope you will do everything possible to find the leftists.

Strasser (Josef Strasser) may be able to help you find them, although he himself, most likely, cannot...* help them.

Write more often, with every courier.

If it is possible (if you have good connections, etc.), try to recover my library from Poronin (Galizien)**: I left it there, along with my things, in 1914 at the dacha; I was supposed to pay 50 crowns more; now I would give 100,000,000 if I could recover the library. But this...* is personal 210.

The most important thing is to find leftists in Vienna and help them in every way possible. I am very much afraid that you will not succeed at this owing to the lack of connections, but do everything you can.

Write.

Greetings! Your Lenin
11/XI. 1918.

In 1940 in the journal

For the first time, from the manuscript

* The manuscript of the letter is partially damaged. — Ed.

** — Poronin (Galicia). An insertion was made to this place in the manuscript. In the part that could be read, V. I. Lenin wrote: "...I lived in Poronin under my own name...". — Ed.

Sent to Vienna

First published incompletely

*Proletarskaya Revolyutsiya* No. 4

Published in full