The Covering Letter to the Statement to the Editor, Daily Chronicle Office

Author(s) Frederick Engels
Written 17 November 1891


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXVIII, Moscow, 1940
Reproduced from the rough manuscript
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 27

Dear Sir

For the sake of historical truth I request you to insert the enclosed reply [1] to one of the most infamous slanders ever concocted. [2]

I regret that the Daily Chronicle which has done such good service to the working class in England should allow its correspondents abroad to spread calumnious reports about Continental working class movements and their leaders. ⟦Passage crossed out in the manuscript : Your Paris correspondent seems to be jealous of your Berlin one, about whose true character I believe you have been some time ago told the truth.⟧

Yours faithfully

  1. ↑ See this volume, p. 253. — Ed.
  2. ↑ "The Case of M. Lafargue", The Daily Chronicle, No. 9261, November 17, 1891.— Ed