405. To G. Y. ZINOVIEV
I am sending you the notebook: Inessa asks that it be returned when copied.[1]
I am sending Wijnkoop’s letter. Return it immediately (if useful, show it to Yuri). I shall snatch at this “little kernel” of a Left International with both hands. We must work as hard as we can to get closer together with them. I am hurrying Radek to translate the Berne resolutions.[2]
I am sending the beginning of the pamphlet (in the rough) so that we can discuss how to continue the job and turn out a “whole” piece by two authors (show it, if useful, to Yuri; perhaps they will give some money for such a thing? If not, it’s not worth while showing the rough copy).[3]
Send your comments on a separate sheet.
Return immediately.
I think that, when edited, it may turn out a popular and important (both for Russia and for Europe) body of arguments and materials.
Regards,
Lenin
Let Zina make some more copies of the report on the Vorkonferenz.[4] It has to be circulated!!
Notes
[1] What this refers to has not been established.—Ed.
[2] See present edition, Vol. 21, pp. 158–64.—Ed.
[3] A reference to the pamphlet Socialism and War (The Attitude of the R.S.D.L.P. Towards the War) (see present edition, Vol. 21, pp. 295–338).—Ed.
[4] This refers to the letter by the delegate of the C.C., R.S.D.L.P. giving a report on the preliminary conference, held on July 11, 1915, in preparation for the first international socialist conference. The letter was circulated among Party organisations (Lenin Miscellany XIV, pp. 464–63).