Letter to Wilhelm Liebknecht, not later than July 27, 1871

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 27 July 1871


First published, in Russian, in Marx-Engels Archives, Vol. I (VI), Moscow, 1932
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 44


ENGELS TO WILHELM LIEBKNECHT

IN LEIPZIG

[London, not later than 27 July 1871]

Dear Liebknecht,

Herewith the final portion[1] [2]

When I gave you the Peasant War, you did not even send me a single copy of it.[3] In order to procure some, I had to order them through the local Workers' Society.[4] This time I am counting on more decent treatment and would like to have for myself 25 copies of a separate offprint of the Address. I not only have private debts of politeness to repay, but I also have to present copies to the local and other German workers. Apart from myself, the General Council should also be sent 25 copies. You can add 50 copies of Borkheim's pamphlet, for which we shall pay, as well as around 6 copies each of your other publications (1 doz. each of Bebel's and of Dietzgen's things), for which we shall pay too.[5]

Your

F. E.

We shall also have the German translation printed in America as soon as the complete text becomes available.

  1. ↑ K. Marx, The Civil War in France.
  2. ↑ of the German translation of Marx's The Civil War in France
  3. ↑ A reference to the second German edition of Engels' work, The Peasant War in Germany, put out by the Volksstaat Publishers in 1870.
  4. ↑ On 26 November 1870, when the North German Reichstag discussed the question of granting credits for the continuation of the war against France, Bebel and Liebknecht spoke against credits and for a speedy peace treaty with the French Republic without annexations. On 17 December, after the Reichstag session had drawn to a close, Bebel, Liebknecht and Hepner were arrested and charged with high treason.
  5. ↑ Engels has in mind Borkheim's work, Zur Erinnerung für die deutschen Mordspatrioten. 1806-1807, which was published in Der Volksstaat in July-September 1871 and was to appear as a pamphlet some time later; A. Bebel's pamphlets Unsere Ziele (second edition) and Die Reden Bebel's, which were issued in August 1871 by the Volksstaat Publishers; and J. Dietzgen's Die Religion der Sozial-Demokratie, which was published between August 1870 and August 1871 in Der Volksstaat, and in 1871 appeared as a pamphlet.