696. To THE PRESIDIUM OF THE SOCIALIST ACADEMY

First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the original. · page 526

I hereby certify that the bearer, Comrade Vladimir Viktorovich Adoratsky, is a Bolshevik, whom I have personally known since 1911; he deserves full trust; he is a member of the R.C.P.; and a writer.

He is working on a collection of Marx’s selected letters, a work we have discussed together.

It is my earnest request that he be rendered all possible assistance, supplied with the necessary books, and, in particular, that he be given the opportunity of working at the Socialist Academy for about 4 hours every morning, and of using its library.

10.IV.1922.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)