Letter to Laura Lafargue, November 23, 1886

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 23 November 1886


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 36, Moscow, 1964
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 47
Reproduced from the original


ENGELS TO LAURA LAFARGUE

IN PARIS

London, 23 November 1886

My dear Laura,

I intended to write to you today but had to write to Edward[1] first to catch the steamer, and that has taken me till now 5 p. m. So I must delay till to-morrow.

Prefaces, etc., 6 5 4 corrected in 14 proofs, so by end of week my share of the work will probably be done. Damned glad, it has worried me more than a little. How soon Swan Sonnenschein & Co. will now bring it out I cannot tell.

In the meantime I enclose the two American letters 655 I have just replied to.

Thanks for 'Fergus'[2] — they do decline then to take his name? Cyon has orders to start a large French paper (or to buy an existing one) in Paris in the interest of Russia, that was what he went home and brought the money for.

Yours affectionately,

F.E.

  1. ↑ Edward Aveling, as specified in note 39
  2. ↑ Paul Lafargue signed his articles in La Nouvelle Revue with the pseudonym 'Fergus'.