Letter to Nikolai Danielson, December 5, 1889

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 5 December 1889


First published in Russian in Minuvshiye gody, No. 2, 1908
Reproduced from the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 48


ENGELS TO NIKOLAI DANIELSON

IN ST. PETERSBURG

London, 5 December 1889
11 Burton Road Kilburn, N. W.

Dear Sir,

Immediately on receipt of your letter of the 14/26 November[1] I informed Mr Lafargue of its contents. He replies that he has written to you at once, saying that he never received any letters from the Lady[2] Editor of the Northern Review, that he places at her disposal 5 articles or any of them; as to the cutting out of certain passages of the article now in hand he says nothing to me, but if he should have omitted replying on that point, it seems to me clear that such must be left to her discretion. His address is

P. Lafargue, 60, Avenue des Champs Elysées Le Perreux

Seine, France

I now forward to you registered a copy of Th. Tooke, on the Currency Principle,[3] London, 1844. This is a copy I bought second hand, it contains some pencil notes by the former owner, mostly confused stuff; also two old newspaper cuttings, one referring to the crisis of 1847 and rather interesting.

In the meantime I have got ready the 4th edition of Volume I[4] now in the press, there are two or three fresh additions from the French edition; the quotations have been looked over with the help of the English edition, and I have added a few notes of my own, especially one about Bimetallism.[5] As soon as ready I shall forward you a copy.

Yours sincerely yours
P. W. Rosher[6]

  1. ↑ Engels received N. Danielson's letter of 26 November in which N. Danielson summed up the gist of the letter sent by the editors of the Russian journal Northern Review to P. Lafargue concerning the intended publication in it of P. Lafargue's article about the evolution of property.
  2. ↑ G. Avenel, Lundis révolutionnaires 1871-1874
  3. ↑ T. Tooke, An Inquiry into the Currency Principle, etc.
  4. ↑ of Capital
  5. ↑ Karl Marx Capital Part I, Ch. Ill, 'Money, Or the Circulation of commodities', Section 3, Universal Money.
  6. ↑ This is the pseudonym Engels used in his correspondence with Nikolai Danielson. Percy White Rosher was the name of the husband of the niece of Engels's wife.