From: Rabbi Mordechai Leib Winkler
To: Rabbi Avraham Friedman
The responsum addresses a difficulty regarding the ruling that one should not light from one candle to another on Shabbat due to diminishing the mitzvah, even from one lamp to another, contrasting it with the lighting of the Menorah where one lights from the western lamp to other lamps.
Source: Orach Chayim II §177