Letter to Ernst Dronke, November 19, 1878

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 19 November 1878


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXVII, Moscow, 1935
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 44

To Ernst Dronke in Liverpool

[Copy]

19 November 1878


My dear Dronke,

I wrote to you in the beginning of this month[1] to inform you that I had been legally advised that the policy you deposited with me as security[2] was no security whatever unless assigned to me by Mrs Dronke, and that therefore I had instructed my solicitors to draw up a form accordingly.

On the 10th I informed you[1] that this form had been handed to Messrs Whitley and Maddock, solicitors, 6 Water St., Liverpool, and requested you to call and examine it.

I have not had a reply from you to either of these communications, and am now informed that up to the 17th at least you had not called at Messrs Whitley and Maddock.

As none of my letters have been returned to me by the post, I must conclude that they have reached you. However to make matters sure, I have requested Messrs Whitley and Maddock to have this letter delivered at your house. It is needless for me to repeat that unless the above documents are signed and in my hands on the morning of the 23rd inst. at latest, I shall decline paying the payment then due.

Yours truly

F. E.


London, 19 November 1878

To E. Dronke

The assignment of Policy

  1. ↑1.01.1 Engels' letter has not been found.
  2. ↑ See this volume, pp. 165, 171.