102. To F. E. DZERZHINSKY

First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the original. · page 105

27.III.1921

Comrade Dzerzhinsky:

Please write for me, or have your secretary write for me, a short (10–20 lines) note about the unsuccessful   purchase of 400 (instead of 1,000) poods of accessories for making boots (accessories whose selection was unsatisfactory, wrong).

I need this to issue instructions on what we are to avoid and how. How similar mistakes are to be avoided.^[1]

Yours,
Lenin

Notes

[1] In reply to this note, Dzerzhinsky sent Lenin a short report the same day describing the circumstances of the unsuccessful purchase of foreign tacks. On Dzerzhinsky’s report Lenin wrote: “(About tacks). Keep and give me a reminder” (Lenin Miscellany XXXVI, p. 211).