Letter to Camille Huysmans, September 8, 1908

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8.IX. 08

Dear Comrade Huysmans,

Thank you for your letter of August 31st. I was away for three days and that is why I did not reply earlier.[1] (...)[2] as for the report we have [now] arranged that matter. (...)[3]

... [that the Central Committee of our Party was able to hold (after several months] “rest” in prisons) a plenary meeting. The member of the Committee who started to write the report was also arrested; he was only released two weeks ago. Now he is here too. We have decided that it is [impos]sible to continue the preparation of the report in Russia and [we have] entrusted this [task] to a comrade [in Geneva] (...)[4] ... that the report will be finished in two months. I deeply regret, dear comrade, that we caused you a good deal of trouble and inconvenience but you cannot imagine what a large number of militants we have lost and to what extent (...)[5]

... the crisis of (...)[6]

... the Courrier International (...)[7]

... I do not know any internationalist of the old guard in Geneva. You have probably written to London and to the committees of the Swiss socialist (...)[8] about this matter: if the socialist newspapers in London, Geneva, Zurich, etc. ... will print an announcement that the International Socialist = Bureau (...)[9]

... of this Courrier (...)[10]

My address: Vl. Oulianoff, 61, rue des Maraîchers, Genève.

Vl. Oulianoff

  1. ↑ Where Lenin went in the beginning of September 1908 has not been established.
  2. ↑ An illegible word.—Ed.
  3. ↑ An illegible line.—Ed.
  4. ↑ Two illegible lines.—Ed.
  5. ↑ Four illegible words.—Ed.
  6. ↑ Three illegible lines.—Ed.
  7. ↑ Three illegible words.—Ed.
  8. ↑ An illegible word.—Ed.
  9. ↑ An illegible line.—Ed.
  10. ↑ Five illegible lines.—Ed.