Letter to Vyacheslav Karpinsky, September 19, 1915

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First letter

Dear V. K.,

We haven’t received the pamphlet yet. We want to put out a double issue of the CO with a report on the inter national conference of the Left in Berne. How about Kuzmikha? Could she be “buttered up” by payment for the pamphlet (you have the money, haven’t you?)? Or is it hopeless? And no prospect of issuing it in the near future? Drop me a line, please, as to whether we can know where we stand.

I received Yegor’s letters and will answer him in a day or two through you.

All the best,

Yours,

Lenin

Second letter

Dear V. K.,

I am sending you Journal de Genève. It appears that I put it away somewhere before my departure and forgot about it. I’m awfully glad I have found it and not made myself look quite a pig in your eyes.

Re the CO, Grigory advises having it published in Berne (this Is a double number, 4 pages on the conference of the Left), if there is no hope with regal!d to Kuzmikha. Drop me a line “to make assurance doubly sure” (as I am already well aware how helpless we all are where Kuzmikha is concerned).

About the lecture. I would like to read it about mid-October on the subject: “The International Socialist Conference of 5–8.1X.1915”. If suitable, we could organise it in advance (perhaps you could print bills for other towns, too, leaving a space for the town and the date). Could it bring in anything (I am devilishly hard up), is it opportune, etc.? Everyone (the Socialist-Revolutionaries, Nashe Slovo and others) will publish something about the conference, but I would go into details.

I am writing to Kharitonov in Zurich.

Best regards,

Yours, Lenin

P.S. I am enclosing a letter for Socialist-Revolutionary “Yegor”. Please read it arid give it to him. If convenient, have a talk with him and let me know your opinion of him and his friends. What sort of people are they?