Letter to Ernst Dronke, November 29, 1878

Author(s)	Friedrich Engels
Written	29 November 1878

First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 34, Moscow, 1964
Reproduced from the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 45

ENGELS TO ERNST DRONKE

IN LIVERPOOL

[Draft]

London, 29 November 1878

My dear Dronke,

I hear from Messrs Whitley and Maddock that you informed them of your intention not to have the assignment of the Policy executed. Moreover I have not had a word of reply or explanation from yourself. Under these circumstances I can only again repeat, that the Policy belongs to Mrs Dronke and that you had no right whatever to dispose of it. It is therefore no security for me unless assigned by her in the form prescribed by law. Unless this is done, I shall know how to qualify the transaction, and of course shall not pay any premium to keep it in existence.

Yours truly