Letter to Pyotr Lavrov, August 15, 1876

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 15 August 1876


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXVI, Moscow 1935
Printed according to the original
Translated from the French
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 45


ENGELS TO PYOTR LAVROV

IN LONDON

Ramsgate, 15 August 1876
11 Camden Square My dear Mr Lavrov,

On my return from Germany l7s I found awaiting me your letter of the 7th which I hastened to pass on to Liebknecht.[1] Since the people concerned are completely unknown to me, there was little else I could do.[2]

I hope our poor Smirnov will have strength enough to get over his illness. He has been working harder than the delicate state of his health allows, and he would be well-advised to take it a bit easier. With warmest regards both to him and to yourself.

Yours ever,

F. Engels

  1. ↑ Engels' letter has not been found.
  2. ↑ In his letter to Engels of 7 August 1876, Lavrov stated that a young man, a Russian socialist residing in Berlin and corresponding with German Social- Democrats and Russian socialists (Grigory Gurevich), had carelessly allowed some letters addressed to him, including letters from Liebknecht, to be opened at the post office, after which they had fallen into the hands of the police. On 6 August, Lavrov received a letter from one Dekhterev in Leipzig, who informed him, allegedly on behalf of the German Social-Democrats, that a certain Chernyshev had been despatched to Berlin to investigate this matter (see this volume, p. 147).