Letter to Hermann Schluter, December 7, 1886

Author(s)	Friedrich Engels
Written	7 December 1886

First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXVII, Moscow 1935
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 47

ENGELS TO HERMANN SCHLÜTER

IN HOTTINGEN-ZURICH

[London,] 7 December 1886

Please send me a copy of The Bakuninists at Work^[1] ; the only one I've got was in a bundle with other stuff. The thing is badly crumpled and requires close scrutiny. On Sunday^[2] afternoon the soldier^[3] turned up here, where his wife had already been for several days—he's very satisfied with his success.^[4] Yesterday Paul, the Berliner,^[5] also turned up. Since I cannot easily apply myself to any really big jobs while they are here, I shall see if I can't get something or other ready for press for you; however, I would prefer to write my prefaces myself.

Kindest regards.

Yours,

F.E.

↑ Schlüter wrote to Engels on 4 December 1886 describing his plans to reissue Engels' pamphlet The Bakuninists at Work together with his article 'On Social Relations in Russia' as an issue in the Sozialdemokratische Bibliothek series (see Note 664). Schlüter further wrote about Eduard Bernstein's proposal that this issue be supplied with a preface from the publishers.
↑ 5 December
↑ Wilhelm Liebknecht
↑ At the invitation of the Executive Committee of the Socialist Labor Party (see Note 549) Wilhelm Liebknecht took part in a campaign tour of the United States to raise money for the German Social Democrats' election fund. Eleanor Marx-Aveling and Edward Aveling made a trip around the United States at approximately the same time (see Note 601). Liebknecht stayed in Eastbourne with Engels for four days, left Liverpool on 4 September and arrived in New York on 13 September where he met the Avelings. In New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Washington and other cities he gave talks and lectures on the theory and history of socialism, the state of the workers' movement in Europe and other subjects. This trip, which he completed on 26 November, raised 16,000 marks for the German Social Democrats' election fund. On his way back to Germany, Liebknecht stayed with Engels in London from 5 to 10 December, following which he set off on his way home to Borsdorf near Leipzig.
↑ Paul Singer

[1] Schlüter wrote to Engels on 4 December 1886 describing his plans to reissue Engels' pamphlet The Bakuninists at Work together with his article 'On Social Relations in Russia' as an issue in the Sozialdemokratische Bibliothek series (see Note 664). Schlüter further wrote about Eduard Bernstein's proposal that this issue be supplied with a preface from the publishers.

[2] 5 December

[3] Wilhelm Liebknecht

[4] At the invitation of the Executive Committee of the Socialist Labor Party (see Note 549) Wilhelm Liebknecht took part in a campaign tour of the United States to raise money for the German Social Democrats' election fund. Eleanor Marx-Aveling and Edward Aveling made a trip around the United States at approximately the same time (see Note 601). Liebknecht stayed in Eastbourne with Engels for four days, left Liverpool on 4 September and arrived in New York on 13 September where he met the Avelings. In New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Washington and other cities he gave talks and lectures on the theory and history of socialism, the state of the workers' movement in Europe and other subjects. This trip, which he completed on 26 November, raised 16,000 marks for the German Social Democrats' election fund. On his way back to Germany, Liebknecht stayed with Engels in London from 5 to 10 December, following which he set off on his way home to Borsdorf near Leipzig.

[5] Paul Singer

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