Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

444

To: V. A. KARPINSKY

Written: Written prior to November 9, 1915
Published: First published in 1929 in Lenin Miscellany XI. Sent from Berne to Geneva. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, [1977], Moscow, Volume 43, page 498^a.
Translated: Martin Parker and Bernard Isaacs
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
Public Domain: Lenin Internet Archive (2005). You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet Archive” as your source.

Dear V. K.,

I am sending you the proof-sheets.

Will Olga please answer my postcard of yesterday in greatest possible detail.

Do me a favour—get to know (from Stepko or Mikha, etc.) the name of “Koba” (Joseph J.....?? we have forgotten). Very important!!

Would you buy me (out of C.O. expenses) Romain Rolland’s pamphlet: Au dessus de la mêlée?

Or is it unobtainable in Geneva?

All the very best,
Yours,
Lenin

Thanks for the Appeal to Reason^[1] you have sent me!!

Send it more often!

Notes

[1] Appeal to Reason—newspaper of the American socialists, founded in Girard, Kansas, in 1895; was not connected officially with the Socialist Party of America, but propagated socialist ideas and enjoyed great popularity among the workers. Eugene Debs, the American socialist, wrote for the paper.