Dear friend! I am extremely astonished that you — for reasons I cannot fathom — failed to keep our appointment!

There was no need to make peace, as the guests were exceedingly peaceable (only Kamenev's one guest wants to expel someone from the party). We came to excellent agreement (without positions)114.

Radek's translation is not entirely satisfactory (Part I is tedious) (but it is still necessary for credibility) — I have sent it to N. I.115

Lest I forget! The guests convinced me that we should not speak in print about our disagreements in the *Communist* editorial board (that you and I voted against Trotsky). They are right.

Strike it out!!

But we must launch a campaign against the Tsereteli faction116. And therefore I (after removing the passage about voting) am raising anew the question of my small article "An Instructive Experience" (conversation with the guests again proved that the whole crux of the matter now lies in the Tsereteli faction).

Nobody answers N. V. Maslov among us!! Will Radek not write at least a review?117

Warmest greetings!

Your Lenin

Radek is being oddly silent!! I shall wait a bit longer.

Did you receive No. 2 of *Our Cause* and the *News*?

Should we not translate the chapter from Gorter about Kautsky and Co.? We ought to!

I am sending you Abram's article118. I am for it. We need facts extremely urgently, and not merely "tactics." He has a useful compilation of facts. I have corrected it in a few places. I advise signing it as A. B. for conspiratorial reasons (author's safety).

P.S.

In case you come: Schupfheim - 720 meters, Fluhli - 8 km from there - 893 m, and Sorenberg 10 km from Fluhli - 1165 m. The road is a cart road. You can ride uphill on bicycle for 1/3 of the way from Fluhli to Sorenberg. (The descent to Fluhli = 20 minutes by bicycle).

P.S. How stand your negotiations with Yuri about money for transport? Alexander is preparing. Write how much and when it is possible to receive.

P.S. What has come of Karpinsky's collaboration? He seems offended.

The above was written yesterday.

I did not manage to send it yesterday. I received *Vorwarts* + Adler. Many thanks!

N. I. requests Abram's article.

I am sending N. I.'s article and review (with remarks)119.

I advise the review for the notes section. Of course, if one must choose, I am for N. I., not for Abram.