Letter to Johann Philipp Becker, October 12, 1880

Author(s)	Friedrich Engels
Written	12 October 1880

First published in: F. Engels, Vergessene Briefe (Briefe Friedrich Engels an Johann Philipp Becker), Berlin, 1920
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 46

ENGELS TO JOHANN PHILIPP BECKER

IN GENEVA

London, 12 October 1880

Dear Old Man,

I've heard from Liebknecht that you're still short of cash but that they can't help you just now. By a lucky chance I was on the point of putting a five pound note on one side for you and have lost no time in changing it into a money order for 126 frs. I trust it reaches you safely and soon and will tide you over your initial difficulties until such time as the Leipzigers can do something for you. And so they damned well ought. You're certainly as much a victim of the Exceptional Law⁶ as the agitators in Germany who have been deprived of their livelihood.

Liebknecht was here⁶⁰ and promised that the Zurich paper^a would adopt a different attitude in keeping with the party's former attitude. If that is done, it's all we ask.

Adieu and keep your pecker up.

Your old friend

F. Engels