and an official letter from the Ministry of Defence. This was to say that F. A. Reid, a foreign resident, printer and former importer of printing machinery, was released from his responsibility towards V. S. Grigoriev, student of the University of Moscow, who had been taken once again into preventive detention. There would now be no objection, since he held the necessary permits, to the departure of F. A. Reid and his family from the Russian Empire at his earliest convenience.