| Author(s) | Friedrich Engels |
|---|---|
| Written | 4 December 1894 |
ENGELS TO FILIPPO TURATI
IN MILAN
[London,] 4 December 1894
41 Regent's Park Road
My dear Turati,
Where the deuce do you find the patience to keep writing to this dear Monsieur E.? But let's leave aside the bourgeois titles. As to your students, I regret infinitely that I am unable to come to their aid other than by giving them my best wishes. My time is so occupied that I cannot get down even to the most urgent matters at hand. The same day as I receive your card, one addresses the same request to me on behalf of Berlin students; I am obliged to send them the same refusal as I do to your friends. These little things are but trifles if taken separately, yet when all this happens day after day with a desperate regularity, it all adds up to a considerable loss of time. Be so kind as to make my excuses to your young friends to whom, nevertheless, I wish complete success.
I enclose my preface to the 3d volume of Capital for the benefit of citizeness Anna—there are several lines in which one might become interested in Italy.
It was good of you to cite Bebel in the Critica Sociale. Bebel has said bitter, but quite necessary truths. This was more opportune than the opportunism of his adversaries.
Yours truly,
F. E.
Please note the change of my address.