Letter to Maria Mendelson, January 16, 1893

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 16 January 1893


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXIX, Moscow, 1946
Printed according to the original
Translated from the French
Published in English in full for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 50


ENGELS TO MARIA MENDELSON

IN LONDON

[London,] 16 January 1893

Dear Mme Mendelson,

The article in Vorwärts of which you speak was written in Paris.[1] It seems that the author was told that the 5 arrested Poles belonged to the same socialist school as, among the Russians, Plekhanov and his friends; and the correspondent has thus committed the quid pro quo that we have all sadly read.

The article which I sent to Vorwärts is in the following issue (No. II, 13th January).

Let us congratulate ourselves nonetheless that this latest base action by the French government has only led to an expulsion.

Mme Kautsky joins her greetings to those of your devoted

F. Engels

  1. ↑ 'Russische Polizei Allmacht in Frankreich', Vorwärts, No. 10, 12 January 1893 (in the running headline 'Politische Uebersicht').