Letter to Stanislaw Mendelson, January 18, 1891

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 18 January 1891


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXVIII, Moscow, 1940
Translated from the French
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 49


ENGELS TO STANISLAW MENDELSON

IN LONDON

[London,] Sunday, 18 January 1891

Dear Citizen Mendelson,

After my conversation with Mrs Mendelson yesterday evening I discovered an article in the Paris Socialiste[1] on the strength of which you could, I believe, write a letter to the English press regarding the matter Mrs Mendelson and Citizen Jodko spoke to me about.

I have discussed the matter with Aveling and his wife.[2] They will be dropping in on you tomorrow morning. If you and Aveling would then care to fix a time for the two of you to do me the pleasure of calling here, we could compose a letter and arrange for it to appear in the press.

My compliments to Mrs Mendelson and Citizen Jodko.

Yours very sincerely,

F. Engels

  1. ↑ A letter headlined 'A Warning' appeared over the signature of Stanislaw Mendelson in Justice No. 367 on 24 January 1891. It urged English socialists to be on the look-out for possible provocations by agents of the Tsarist secret police in London.
  2. ↑ Eleanor Marx Aveling