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Letter to Sara Weber, April 26, 1938
| Author(s) | Leon Trotsky |
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| Written | 26 April 1938 |
A Russian Encyclopedia
Dear Friend:
I am now working on the Stalin book and parallel with it the Lenin, but I see with absolute clarity that it will be impossible to proceed without a Russian encyclopedia. At every page I am faced with research upon geographical, historical, chronological, biographical, etc., data. Would it not be possible to find an old prerevolutionary encyclopedia in New York? What is the price of a new Soviet encyclopedia? I began in France and in Norway to buy it and I have the first three volumes of the small encyclopedia. How many volumes have appeared up until today? What is the price?
The ideal would be to have an old encyclopedia and the small new one. The minimum program is to have one of them.
Walker sold my war article to The Yale Review and the necessary money to buy the encyclopedia could be extracted from these royalties. It would be very good if Sara or another comrade could take the encyclopedia with them, because its sending by railway would signify two or three months' delay.
The question is very important to me because otherwise my work would be handicapped at every step.
With best greetings,