| Author(s) | Friedrich Engels |
|---|---|
| Written | 11 May 1894 |
ENGELS TO LAURA LAFARGUE
AT LE PERREUX
London, 11 May 1894
122 Regent's Park Road, N. W.
My dear Laura, Just two lines. Have the proofs of the Discours sur le libre échange[1] gone to Milan? If not, do please see that they are sent at once. Turati has published in the Critica Sociale a text which is a traduction[2] from the Russian of something made out of something in German,[3] and moreover so abbreviated that it is anything but Mohr. Now they threaten to publish this en brochure. And unless they get the French text soon, I shall not even be able to haul them over the coals for it, as they are doing 'their text'!
Surely it will be possible to make our French friends to treat business as business for once!
Just come back from town where we sent off the last of the Manuscript of Vol. III,
If you get the Neue Welt with the Vorwärts or some other German paper, look at 'Aus finsteren Zeiten' in No. 18. You will find there your grandparents and Mohr transmogrified into a romance and I wish you may relish it.
Kind regards from Louise. Monsieur Guesde neither turned up nor wrote a line of excuse, Les français sont si polis![4]
Ever yours
F. E.
The lazy woman[5] says she is just writing 30 letters to Trades Unions and others anent an Austrian strike, and says she should be very glad of your assistance if she could have it.
Avvocato F. Turati Portíci Galleria, V. E. 23 Milano, Italia