Letter to William Burrs, February 22, 1872

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 22 February 1872


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 50, Moscow 1981
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 44


ENGELS TO WILLIAM BURRS[1]

IN MANCHESTER

[Draft]

[London,] 22 February 1872

In reply...[2] I beg to say that Mr Glaser[3] has been highly recommended to me and that I believe him to be a strictly honourable man and not without some means, and who is not likely to enter into engagements he could not fulfil so that, if I were in a position to do business with him, I should not hesitate to trust him to a moderate amount say £100 to 200.

  1. ↑ A draft of this letter was written by Engels across Burrs' letter to him of 19 February 1872. The former letter, as well as Engels' draft letters to J. Molesworth (written after 5 June) and to Th. Smart & Co. (3 July), are replies to enquiries by the relevant companies regarding E. Glaser de Willebrord's solvency and his reliability as a potential partner (see this volume, pp. 391 and 406).
  2. ↑ Dots in the original.
  3. ↑ de Willebrord