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In your letter of 9 November, you write that you will send me my "debt" in small installments. I would like you to send them as soon as possible, however small the installments. (If there is money, send it directly to me in Kostino.) I say this because I need money desperately. Everything would be bearable were it not for this illness, but this accursed illness, requiring care (i.e., money), drives me out of all balance and patience. I am waiting. As soon as I receive the German books, I shall supplement the articles and send them in revised form...

Yours, Iosif.

Bolshevik Leadership. Correspondence. 1912-1927. p. 17.

RGASPI. F. 558. Op. 2. D. 89. L. 2.

NOTE

The reference is to royalties for publications. In 1912-1913, Stalin worked on a series of articles on the national question. The largest of these, "Marxism and the National Question," was written in Vienna and first published under the signature "K. Stalin" in issues Nos. 3-5 of the journal Prosveshchenie under the title "The National Question and Social Democracy." As a separate pamphlet, this work, which incorporated a number of smaller articles on the national question, was published in 1914 by the Priboi publishing house (St. Petersburg). See the Letter to R.V. Malinovsky, 21 November 1913.

The address on the postcard: "Austria (Galicia) Krakau. Ulica Lubomirskiego No. 35. An Herrn Radomilski. Osterreich. Mogilska 10." A corner of the postcard with the date in the upper left has been torn off. On the copy in the upper left corner are two notes in Stalin's hand: "1913. From Turukhansk Territory" and "Comrade Orakhel'ashvili. Lenin Institute. Return this trifle to IMEL, written in 1913 from Kostino (Turukhansk Territory). I. St."