Letter to Editorial Board of a French Socialist Newspaper, April 24, 1894

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 24 April 1894


First published in Russian in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXIX, Moscow, 1946
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 50


ENGELS TO THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF A FRENCH SOCIALIST

NEWSPAPER[1]

[Draft]

London, 24 April 1894 122 Regent's Park Road, N. W.

Dear citizen,

I have received your letter dated 20th of this month, but unfortunately I am quite unable to provide an article for the 1st May issue of your newspaper.

To begin with, I am unwell at the moment. However, even if I were in the best of health, the urgent work that I am presently engaged in (the publication of the 3rd volume of Capital by Marx) and that I cannot lay aside makes it impossible for me to undertake any other literary work. I have already warned those of our friends with whom I corresponded, and asked them to excuse me. You can well understand that I cannot now do for you that which I have officially refused to do for our friends in Spain, Austria and other countries.

I wish your newspaper every success, and send my fraternal greetings to the editorial committee.

Yours sincerely,

F.E.

  1. ↑ See Note 362.