Letter to Patrick John Coleman, May 20, 1875

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 20 May 1875


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 34, Moscow, 1964
Reproduced from the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 45


ENGELS TO PATRICK JOHN COLEMAN[1]

IN LONDON

[London,] 20 May 1875

[Draft]

As to your own business, I am sorry I am not in position to become security for anybody. I have done it once and the experience I made then has been such that I shall never repeat the act. If it was in my power to assist you in any other way I should be glad to do it, but at present I do not see any possibility of being useful to you.

[Engels' later note, in German, on the envelope of Coleman's letter]

Coleman, [18]75. McDonnell's International.

  1. ↑ This is a draft of Engels' reply to Patrick John Coleman's letter of 19 May 1875. It was written down on the last page of Coleman's letter informing Engels about his intention to go into trading business and requesting him to become security for him.