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Title: To “Valerien”
Author: Mikhail Bakunin
Date: 1870
Language: en
Topics: letter
Source: Retrieved on 2016-10-28 from http://marxists.architexturez.net/reference/archive/bakunin/works/1870/valerian.htm
Notes: Source: Correspondance de Mikhail Bakounine; Lettres … Herzen et … Ogareff. Edited by Michel Dragomanov. Paris, Perrin et Cie., 1896; Translated: for marxists.org by Mitchell Abidor; CopyLeft: Creative Commons (Attribute & ShareAlike) marxists.org 2014.

Mikhail Bakunin

To “Valerien”

24 July 1870

Neufchatel

Dear Friend:

In the name of god I beg you not to do anything stupid, that is, not to

fool around, to follow our advice, and to believe that every word in my

letter to Talandier, that I ask that you read, is correct. It’s a

question of your safety, and you'll understand this once you've taken

the trouble to understand every word of that letter.

It would be good of you, and you would render an enormous service to our

sacred common cause if you could find a way to take back from Nechaev

all the documents he stole from us, as well as his. But I'm afraid that

you've lost your edge and your former agility, which is why I beg you in

your own interest to completely cut yourself off from Nechaev and his

little friend Waldemar Sallier and, if possible, to make sure he loses

your trail. Since the princess [Obelenski] is in Outin’s camp, which is

hostile to ours, ask her on my behalf not to write to Outin.

Yours