Letter to Frederick Greenwood, December 17, 1870

Author(s)	Friedrich Engels
Written	17 December 1870

First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 39, Moscow, 1966
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 44

ENGELS TO FREDERICK GREENWOOD

IN LONDON

[Draft] [London,] 17 December [1870] 1 p.m.

A friend of mine Mr Oswald sends me the enclosed. He says that the usual tickets have been sent to The Pall Mall Gazette and wishes me to say a word in favour of Mrs Oswald's tonight's concert being noticed in that paper, or at least to induce your musical critic to go and hear her. I have told him that this is entirely out of my line and that I even do not know how to go about such a thing. However he insists, and as he is a very worthy fellow I can only say, that if you can consistently do something in that direction you will confer a personal favour upon me. I am too bad a musician to permit myself an opinion but I have heard people who ought to know, speak very highly of Mrs Oswald's play..