Letter to Florence Kelley, May 31, 1887

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 31 May 1887


First published, in the language of the original (English), in Briefe und Auszüge aus Briefen von Job. Phil. Becker, Jos. Dietzgen, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx u. A. an F. A. Sorge und Andere, Stuttgart, 1906
Reproduced from the original in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 48


ENGELS TO FLORENCE KELLEY-WISCHNEWETZKY[1]

IN NEW YORK

London, 31 May 1887

Dear Mrs Wischnewetzky,

I have just mailed to you, registered, the translation of the preface.[2]

It will also be published in the Sozialdemokrat.[3]

To-day I received per post 12 copies of the book[4] which I was very glad of and for which please accept my best thanks. The book looks better than I was led to expect, I have not as yet had time to look at the contents.

Very truly yours—in haste

F. Engels

  1. ↑ Engels wrote this letter on a postcard. The address, written by him on the back, reads Mrs. F. Kelly-Wischnewetzky, 110, East 76th St., New York, U.S. America. For data on the first publication of the letter in English see note 139.
  2. ↑ Kelley-Wischnewetzky had suggested that Engels's article, 'Die Arbeiterbewegung in America' ('The Labour Movement in America'), written as a preface to the US edition of The Condition of the Working Class in England, should be issued in the form of separate German and English pamphlets. This was also suggested by Sorge in his letter of 26 April 1887. Engels translated the preface into German himself. The pamphlets appeared in New York in July 1887. Engels's German translation was also published in the Sozialdemokrat, Nos 24 and 25; 10 and 17 June 1887.
  3. ↑ See F. Engels, 'Die Arbeiterbewegung in Amerika', Der Sozialdemokrat, Nos 24 and 25, 10 and 17 June 1887
  4. ↑ the American edition of Engels' The Condition of the Working Class in England