699. To N. A. SEMASHKO

Written on September 25, 1920 · First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 51. Printed from the typewritten text, added to and signed by Lenin. · page 436

Comrade Semashko

Please allow Lyubov Isaakovna Axelrod (Orthodox) to remain in Clinic No. 2 (No. 5, Third Neopalimovsky Pereulok) the whole winter, giving her a comfortable room.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

Comrade Semashko,

Drop me a line about how she is fixed up. She must be given assistance.

Yours,
Lenin^[1]

Notes

[1] The additional text from “Comrade Semashko,...” to the end is in Lenin’s handwriting.—Ed.