Letter to Ernst Dronke, October 20, 1876

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 20 October 1876


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXVI, Moscow, 1935
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 45


ENGELS TO ERNST DRONKE

IN WATERLOO

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[London,] 20 October 1876

To Dronke

My brother-in-law Blank writes to say that he absolutely and categorically refuses to enter into a transaction such as you suggest.[1] Furthermore, he tells me he severed all connections with Hinsberg, Fischer & Co. three years ago, as is indeed the case.

I am sorry that nothing has come of the matter, since I should have liked to help you in so far as it was in my power to do so.

  1. ↑ This note was written by Engels on Dronke's letter of 13 October 1876, in which Dronke requested Engels to help him obtain a loan of £150 to ease his precarious financial position.