Letter to August Radimsky, March 21, 1893

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 21 March 1893


First published, slightly abridged, in: Karel Marx a Bedrich Engels, Komunisticky manifest, Vienna, 1893 and, in full, in the book: Victor Adlers Aufsätze, Reden und Briefe. Erstes Heft: Victor Adler und Friedrich Engels, Vienna, 1922
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 50


ENGELS TO AUGUST RADIMSKY

IN VIENNA

London, 21 March 1893

Dear Comrade Radimsky,

In reply to your esteemed note of the 18th inst., I can only tell you how glad I am that the Communist Manifesto will be appearing in Czech translation as well.[1] It goes without saying that, so far as I am concerned, there is absolutely no objection at all; on the contrary, it will give not only me but also Marx's daughters the utmost pleasure.

But if Adler told you that I have a 'command' of the Czech language, he was, so far as I am concerned, pitching it a bit high. I am happy if, with much toil and the help of a dictionary, I can understand one column in a newspaper. Nevertheless I much look forward to the numbers of the Délnické Listy you have been so kind as to promise me. They'll help me to keep my hand in rather better.

With cordial regards to the Czech comrades and to you yourself.

Yours truly,

F. Engels

  1. ↑ See this volume, p. 665.