Letter to Eduard Bernstein, February 22, 1894

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 22 February 1894


First published, in Russian, in: Marx-Engels Archives, Vol. I, 1924
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 50


ENGELS TO EDUARD BERNSTEIN[1]

IN LONDON

[Eastbourne,][2] 22 February 1894

Dear Ede,

Thank you for your letter and for the offer of G. Bruno.[3] But just now I am busy with Chapter 4[4] (ground rent) and hope to polish off a few more chapters before my return on Thursday, a week today. So I should like to save up the book until I come back, when I should certainly be glad to read it. We have been sent the Frankfurter Zeitung feuilleton, 'Bebel und Vollmar'.[5] The weather here is unfortunately too cold for me to be able to sit out of doors very much and I am not yet really in a condition to do any walking. Until next week, then.

Kindest regards to Gine, Käte[6] and yourself.

Yours F.E.

  1. ↑ This letter was written on a postcard. Engels indicated the following address: Ed. Bernstein Esq., 50 Highgate Road, London, N.W.
  2. ↑ Engels left for Eastbourne on 9 February or thereabouts because of poor health; he stayed there until 1 March 1894.
  3. ↑ Eduard Bernstein advised Engels to read Giordano Bruno's book Del'Infinito, Universo e Mondi which appeared in 1893 in Berlin; the title of the German translation was Von Unendlichen, dem All und den Welten.
  4. ↑ Of the third volume of Capital (see Vol. 25 of this edition, pp. 698-705).
  5. ↑ G. Brandes, 'Bebel und Vollmar', Frankfurter Zeitung, 4 February 1894
  6. ↑ Regina Bernstein and Käte Schattner