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Letter to Inessa Armand, November 26, 1916
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1977, Moscow, Volume 43, page 585b.
Dear Friend,
About the book by Delaisi, I regret to say that I havenât got it. I must have left it in Berne, or else somebody has âappropriatedâ it.
About your letter to the women, you have taken offence at my remarks, havenât you? And even stretched their meaning just a wee bit?
I wrote that I would advise deleting the passage which says âwe wish to take into our handsâ as it would look absurd. If you do not agree to deleting it, then I advise sending it only to closest and most reliable friends in Germany, for example, through Radek.
Should you agree to alter the unguarded expressions (the letter, in view of the present postal systems, arrests in Germany and France, etc., may get into other hands), then my advice simply falls away. That was what my advice amounted to. That, and nothing more. Not the slightest âdispleasureâ at your letter, none whatever.
You asked my opinion; I gave it to you and merely suggested only slight alterations.
All the best,
Yours,
Lenin