Letter to Hermann Schluter, June 14, 1890

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 14 June 1890


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXVIII, Moscow, 1940
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 48


ENGELS TO HERMANN SCHLÜTER

IN NEW YORK

London, 14 June 1890

Dear Schlüter,

This is to advise you in much haste that you are welcome to reprint Marx's biography—but I have no time to finish it.[1] You will find mate- rial in, inter alia, Marx's obituary in the Sozialdemokrat of March 1883.[2]

Congratulations on becoming 'chief. So far everything is going well over here, as also in Germany, where little Wïllie[3] is threatening to abolish universal suffrage—what better could befall us! In any case we're heading quite fast enough either for a world war or for a world revolution—or both.

Kind regards to your wife—I'm glad to hear she's in better health than she was over here.

Your

F. E.

  1. ↑ Engels replies to F. Schluter's letter of 3 June 1890 in which he said he had been appointed editor of the annual Pionier, Illustrierter Volks-Kalender published by the New Yorker Volkszeitung. Schluter asked Engels for permission to publish in it the Marx biography which Engels wrote in 1877 (see present edition, Vol. 24) and to supplement this biography by describing the last years of Marx's life.
  2. ↑ Frederick Engels, Karl Marx's Funeral
  3. ↑ William II