Letter to Friedrich Adolph Sorge, November 5, 1892

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 5 November 1892


First published in Briefe und Auszüge aus Briefen von Joh. Phil. Becker, Jos, Dietzgen, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx u. A. an F. A. Sorge und Andere, Stuttgart, 1906
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 50


ENGELS TO FRIEDRICH ADOLPH SORGE

IN HOBOKEN

London, 5 November 1892

Dear Sorge,

You must forgive my laziness about writing; I have got to finish Volume II[1] this winter; it must be completed and this won't be possible unless I set all my correspondence aside. I have been at it for 3 weeks and can only tell you that the work is going more smoothly than I could have hoped; the last time I had to break off, I had made good headway and now it's paying dividends. But there still remains a mass of work to do, though I am far enough advanced to be able to see the end of it. And nobody is more glad of that than I; this piece of work has been a burden on my conscience. I have forced myself to make time for it since it couldn't be done in less than 4 months of complete freedom from all other jobs; I know that, unless I do it now, it will never be done, for we are entering a period of rebellion and war. But like everyone else you will have to suffer for it pro tem—so please forgive me!

Your F.E.

  1. ↑ of Capital