Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

722

To: ARMAND HAMMER

Published: First published on January 21, 1926 in Krasnaya Gazeta No. 17. Printed from a photocopy of the English original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, pages 542^c-543^a.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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11.V.1922

Dear Comrade Hammer!

Excuse me please; I have been very ill; now I am much, much better.

Many thanks for Your present—a very kind letter from American comrades and friends who are in prison. I enclose for You my letter to Comrade Zinoviev or for other comrades in Petrograd if Zinoviev has left Petrograd.

My best wishes for the full success of Your first concession: such success would be of great importance also for trade relations between our Republic & United States.

Thanking You once more. I beg to apologise for my bad English. Please address letters & telegrams to my secretary (Fotieva or Smolianinoff). I shall instruct them.^[1]

Yours truly,
Lenin

Notes

[1] See next document.—Ed.