Letter to E. T., about November 13, 1886

Author(s)	Friedrich Engels
Written	13 November 1886

First published in The Commonweal, Vol. 2, No. 44, 13 November 1886
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 47

MECW Note : This letter is Engels' reply to a certain E.T. who had published in The Commonweal an item called 'Socialisme utopique et socialisme scientifique' containing the following: 'Please say if there is an English translation of Engels' "Socialisme Utopique et Socialisme Scientifique". If not, do you know if Engels has given permission to any particular person to translate it; and is there any likelihood in that case of its being issued shortly? Or is it open to any one who wishes to translate it into English, to do so?'

ENGELS TO E.T.

IN LONDON

[London, about 13 November 1886]

In answer to above I have got a translator for the pamphlet in question,^[1] and as it is rather difficult to translate, I should certainly not like any translation to be published without my first having revised it.

Yours faithfully,

F. Engels

↑ The English edition of Engels' Socialism: Utopian and Scientific was published in Edward Aveling's translation in London in 1892.

[1] The English edition of Engels' Socialism: Utopian and Scientific was published in Edward Aveling's translation in London in 1892.

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