For Yu. Larin

Dear Comrade!

Unfortunately, both the composition of the editorial staff, and the indefinite character of the collection, and the restrictive conditions for contributors, and the uncertainty regarding some of them — all of this compels me to decline participation.247

With social-democratic greetings

Lenin

Written March 13, 1916

Sent from Zurich to Stockholm

First published in 1930 in Lenin Miscellany XIII

Printed from the manuscript