Letter to Heinrich Scheu, January 27, 1891

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 27 January 1891


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 38, Moscow, 1965
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 49


ENGELS TO HEINRICH SCHEU

IN LONDON

[London,] 27 January 1891 122 Regent's Park Road, N.W.

Dear Mr Scheu,

Please forgive me for having kept you waiting so long for a reply to your kind note of the 10th.[1] But in the first place I have had an extremely urgent job to do, secondly, owing to appointments with doctors, the timing of which did not depend on me, I have virtually never been master of my own time and, thirdly, the weather has not, until quite recently, been propitious for photography.

I shall, I think, now be at your disposal — at any rate as from the day after tomorrow, especially if you are able to give me 12 or 24 hours' NOTICE. I thought I might again go to Debenham quite close by, but would go to anyone else you like (save for Mayall, who refused to take money from Marx, which makes it genant[2] ) and I should be very glad if you were also to attend and yourself explain to the man what you want and how you want it.

With kind regards,

Yours sincerely,

F. Engels

  1. ↑ In his letter of 10 January 1891 Heinrich Scheu informed Engels that, as well as making a woodcarving of Marx, he intended to portray Engels. For this purpose he requested Engels to send him a photograph.
  2. ↑ embarrassing