Dear friend! I received the translation. Many thanks. I have sent it on further 437.

As for the censorship to which you subjected my French article*, I am, I must say, surprised.

Since you did not send me the original, and besides I would hardly have undertaken to translate it myself into French, I sent it, of course, according to your wishes, with the passage about Engels omitted.

* See "Open Letter to Boris Souvarine" (Collected Works, 5th ed., vol. 30, pp. 261-272). Editor's note.